Praying
When you say prayers, say: Father, may your kingdom be ours. Give us bread for today. Overlook our indebtedness to others, as we overlook theirs to us. Give us the strength to resist temptations. –Guy…
Tag: Jesus
Today’s One-Liner (#155)
When our relationships become strained we can ask ourselves what Jesus would have done—or, when that seems too lofty, what Saint Teresa or Saint Francis wold have done. —Eknath Easwaran, Original Goodness, 166
When Jesus Was Irked
As they were rejoining the crowd a man came up to him and went down on his knees before him. ‘Lord,’ he said, ‘take pity on my son: he is demented and in a wretched…
Listening to the Stones, I Thought of Saint Teresa
Sometimes you need somebody, if you have somebody to loveSometimes you ain’t got nobody and you want somebody to loveThen you don’t want to walk and talk about JesusYou just want to see His face…
The Teachings
However little education a man may have, he cannot but know that Christ did not sanction murder, but taught kindness, meekness, forgiveness of injuries, love of one’s enemies—and therefore he cannot help seeing that on…
Today’s One-Liner (#35)
Our legacy is Jesus and the saints. –Daniel Berrigan, S.J., The Kings and Their Gods: The Pathology of Power
Harvard Joke about Jesus
“A fine teacher, but didn’t publish.” –Quoted by George Steiner, in Lessons of the Masters, p. 33. Steiner observes, “A cardinal definition of genius points, I believe, to the capacity to originate myths, to devise…
Moving toward Perfection
When Turgenev pleaded with him to return to the literary art that had first won him fame, he did not understand that for Tolstoy the measure of true greatness was not what we were but…
He Knew His Books
Jesus’ education in the Hebrew Bible is so extraordinary that he is able to quote a wide variety of texts with ease—and to interpret them with great depth. His knowledge of Moses’ Torah in particular…
Precepts and Parables
Of all the gospels, the Sermon on the Mount was the portion that impressed me most, and I studied it more often than any other part. Nowhere else does Christ speak with such solemnity; nowhere…