Pondering Tidbits of Truth - October 31, 2024



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.



Father Jose Gonzalez

"Reflect upon the scenario in which you were supposed to receive a very large inheritance but were cheated out of it. How would you react? The right reaction would be to care more for the soul of the person who cheated you than to care about actually being cheated. A person who is fully detached from material possessions will care little about losing such an inheritance or gaining one. It will truly matter not. If that is hard to accept, know that this is a sign that your soul is too attached to the things of this world. Pray for freedom from all greed. That is the only way to obtain the true riches of God."

(From Daily Reflections - October 21, 2024)

 

St. Teresa of Calcutta

"How did Christ love us? He made Himself the Bread of Life. He made Himself a living bread that you and I may eat and live. He made himself so small, so weak, just bread to satisfy our hunger for God.” 

(From Kathy Snider He Comes in Grandeur and Humility published in the Oct 2024 issue of Restoration)

 

Peter Kreeft, Ph.D.

"Of course, technology itself is innocent. It is the worship of it, the idolization of it, that is evil. Adam tilling the garden was technology. Noah's ark was technology. Solomon's temple and Notre Dame Cathedral were technology. So was Cain's rock and the Roman art of crucifixion and the gas chambers in Auschwitz and the bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki."

(From How to Destroy Western Civilization and Other Ideas from the Cultural Abyss)


 

 

 

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  1. AnonymousNovember 2, 2024 at 10:01 AM

    That sort of awareness: a good idea, but can take time to develop.

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