Here are some interesting quotes from across the web. (Thanks to Internetmonk for the leads.)
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When you pray for guidance assume you’re being led even if it appears you’re going nowhere.
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America could completely collapse and even cease to exist and Jesus still might not be at the door. The Christian era has seen the collapse of a few empires…
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Is anybody writing great Christian literature anymore? Did the Christian imagination die with C.S. Lewis?
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In other words, we want to end war, hunger and poverty in our lifetime. But we do not posses the will to let someone merge in front of us in traffic, and do so with a smile.
- We are not saved from mediocrity and obscurity, the ordinary and the mundane. We are saved in the midst of it. We are not redeemed from the mundane. We are redeemed from the slavery of thinking our mundane life is not enough.
- We think the small, mundane, ordinary things we do each and every day are worth nothing before God because they are worth nothing before the gods of this world.
- In other words, we want to end war, hunger and poverty in our lifetime. But we do not posses the will to let someone merge in front of us in traffic, and do so with a smile.
- I missed the obvious: the Apostles are writing to normal people.
- I once heard someone refer to intercessory prayer as “loving your neighbor on your knees.” That’s good. Never mind if your knees don’t bend well, or if your church lacks those fancy fold-down kneelers. You get the idea.
Yes, I realize that these are not “Orthodox” quotes. Nevertheless, they make one think, do they not?
America could completely collapse and even cease to exist and Jesus still might not be at the door. The Christian era has seen the collapse of a few empires…
But then what happens to all the End Time Prophecy and Take Back Christian America best-sellers?
Is anybody writing great Christian literature anymore? Did the Christian imagination die with C.S. Lewis?
More like the Christian imagination was told in no uncertain terms that it was NOT repeat NOT welcome and went over the Berlin Wall into the West.
We are not saved from mediocrity and obscurity, the ordinary and the mundane. We are saved in the midst of it. We are not redeemed from the mundane. We are redeemed from the slavery of thinking our mundane life is not enough.
We think the small, mundane, ordinary things we do each and every day are worth nothing before God because they are worth nothing before the gods of this world.
See “The Little Way” of (Western-rite) St Therese of Lisieux, about finding and experiencing the presence of God and holiness in everyday routine.