Pondering Tidbits of Truth - August 23, 2018

Pondering Tidbits of Truth is my simple and inadequate way of providing nuggets of spiritual wisdom for you to chew on from time to time.

David  Torkington

"Christian prayer is above all about love, and therefore first and foremost it is about learning to love a person. Just as in human love, the more you love and are loved by another, then the more you forget yourself. The joy that you experience is the result or the by-product of loving and being loved. If you seek it for itself, you will lose it, if you find it in the first place. The moment that love is turned into its counterfeit is the moment when selfishness desecrates the only thing that makes life worth living. Christian prayer begins by getting to know Jesus Christ, as the first disciples came to know him, and love him, and then through his love, entered into him."

(From Wisdom of Christian Mystics - How To Pray The Christian Way)

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 Blaise Pascal

"There are only two kids of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think that they are righteous."

(From Pensees)

St. Vincent Ferrer

“Make it your constant effort to mortify and trample underfoot your own will, to such a degree as not to satisfy it in anything if it be possible. Be careful, therefore, to desire and rejoice that it may be often crossed; and when you see anyone oppose it either in temporal or spiritual things, follow his will rather than your own, if only his be good, even though your own be better.”

(From A Treatise on the Spiritual Life)