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'Reading Luke's Gospel I see why Steiner is so terribly wrong when he says that only people living under totalitarian regimes can pr...

'"Won't it be nice when we die, Edie, and we can finally be ourselves?"' Laurie Colwin, A Big Storm Knocked it Over, ...

'..with the resurrection of Jesus God's new world has begun; in other words, his being raised from the dead is the start, the paradi...

'After the world had been created, man was placed in it as in a theatre, that he, beholding above him and beneath the wonderful works of...

'As a fish lives in the water as in its element, and dies when it is out, so a Christian lives in prayer as in his element, and his hear...

'To read the Bible well is to become acquainted with God's patience.' Esau McCaulley, Lent , p.60.

'Christ doesn't just teach us about himself in the Eucharist; he comes to us and nourishes the weary believer. We can have both. Rit...

'To transition from believing you live in a world where death is the end, to one in which an almighty God calls dead things to life....

'Meditation is a middle sort of duty betweeen the word and prayer, and hath respect to both.' Thomas Manton in Matthew Bingham, A He...

His prayers lean upward on the dark and fall like flares from a catastrophe. He is a man breathing the fear of hopeless prayer, prayed in ho...