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The key to entering into the Divine Exchange is never our worthiness but always God’s graciousness. Any attempt to measure or increase our worthiness will always fall short, or it will force us into the position of denial and pretend,…

There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence to which the idealist most easily succumbs: activism and overwork. The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of its innate violence. To allow oneself…

Beauty bids all things come   to itself (and thus we call it beauty). Just so, it gathers        all things trembling           fully to itself. We speak of it as beauty    …

In and through Jesus we come to know God as a powerless God, who becomes dependent on us.  But it is precisely in this powerlessness that God’s power reveals itself.  This is not the power that controls, dictates, and commands. …

The spiritual life is first of all a life. It is not merely something to be known and studied, it is to be lived.                                  …

“Our loving Lord does not want his servants to despair because they fall often and grievously; for our falling does not hinder him in loving us.   Peace and love are always in us, living and working, but we are…

God, you have given me another day of totally gratuitous life: my health, my eyes, my ears, my mind, my taste, my family, my freedom, my education, clean water, more than enough food, a roof over my head, a warm…

If my lips could sing as many songs as there are waves of the sea: if my tongue could sing as many hymns as there are ocean billows; if my mouth filled the whole firmament with praise; if my face…