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From our Pastor Mystics and Sages Class Thursdays (5:00 – 5:40 p.m.)
at St. Johannes Would you be happier if you spent less time talking about the weather and more discussing the meaning of life? A study recently reported in the New York Times suggested that people who spend part of their day having deep discussions seemed to be happier. So,
if you have been wondering what it is that we have been discussing at our Mystics
and Sages Class on Thursday
afternoons at St. Johannes here are some recent excerpts … “We
are not human beings having a spiritual experience.
We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”
- Pierre Teihard de Chardin,
Jesuit priest and paleontologist, 1881-1955 “Life
must be understood backwards; but it must be lived forward.” “Prayer
does not change God, but it changes him who prays.”
- Søren Kierkegaard,
Danish theologian, 1813-1855 “There
is not a moment in which God does not present himself…
All that takes place within us, around us, or through us, contains
and conceals His divine action.” - Jean-Pierre
de Caussade, 1675-1751, author of a French spiritual classic, The
Sacrament of the Present Moment. “Love
is the cure; for your pain will keep giving birth to more pain until your
eyes constantly exhale love as effortlessly as your body yields its
scent.” - Rumi, Sufi mystic, 1207-1273 “I
have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever
I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess.”
- Martin Luther, Protestant reformer, 1483-1546. “It
is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal
with the irritating details of outer life.”
- “Let
no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.”
“The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy
to do it.” “One of the
greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.” “We can do no great
things, only small things with great love.”
- Mother Theresa of “A
god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.”
“One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.” -
Dietrich Bonhoeffer,
Lutheran theologian and Christian martyr for his resistance against
Nazism, 1906-1945 Join us on Thursdays when you can, we
are now discussing the religions of the world.
Fr. Bruce
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