“The knowledge of God is no mere matter of the understanding ; it is to love Him, to live in Him, to experience the power of His presence and His blessing. It is evident that the man who would teach others to know God must be able to speak by personal experience of Him, must prove by the warmth of love and devotion that he loves this God, and has his life from Him.”
“It is not infidelity or superstition, it is the spirit of worldliness in the homes of our Christian people, sacrificing the children to the ambition or society, to the riches or the friendship of the world, that is the greatest danger of Christ’s Church.”
“And too often, alas ! Christian parents give their children a prey to the world. Children are allowed to grow up in comparative ignorance about the blessed Saviour, are entrusted to the care of irreligious or worldly teachers, are allowed to associate with those whose spirit and influence is altogether worldly.”
“Alas ! how often, when our children are in danger from the prince of this world, when the temptations of the flesh or the world threaten to make them prisoners and slaves, to hold them back from ever reaching the Father’s home,-how often are we found careless or unwilling to sacrifice our ease and comfort in seeking to rescue them from their danger !”
“Being up front about our differences allows us to recognize where we are united and have friendly and clarifying debates about the jumping-off points. Transparency makes room for grace; obfuscation inhibits it.”
“The movement is where you are, and it exists within your power to take care of people in need.”
““what we can do is so little, but that is what we are given to do. That’s only what we can do, so let’s move forward and do what we each think that we can do.””
“If you’re poor at Disney, you will get a lesser experience, mostly because rich visitors are paying so much money to be ushered on the rides sooner while nonpaying visitors must wait longer.”
The power of simple walking is amazing. Two-hours of slow (2 mph) walking, five times a week. After a year I’ve got resting heart rate of 56. Nuts!
“The higher the faith of the parent rises, the more the family will come under its power, and be permeated by the spirit of godliness.”
“Your inability to focus isn’t a moral failing. It’s a design problem. You’re trying to think in environments built to prevent thinking. You’re trying to sustain attention in spaces engineered to shatter it. You’re fighting algorithms explicitly optimised to keep you scrolling, not learning.”
“Thus the child proudly splitting logs or hammering in nails alongside his father doesn’t mind that his father can do it ten times as fast; what matters is not that the nails were all hammered in but that he hammered them in.”
A trend I’m very proud of. — It’s been a slow journey, but by this summer the work I’ve been doing since August 2024 will finally be evident.
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fx-upscale is incredibly fast. Very surprised by it.
“Wherever God comes with a promise, He expects faith to accept it at once.”
We thank God for two heaters this Sunday! Mass starts at 10:30a and it’ll be toasty.
“the fatherhood and the childhood of this earth hath a Divine and heavenly promise, and everything connected with it must with us be a matter of faith, a religious service holy to the Lord and well pleasing in His sight.”
Bohemian Rhapsody auf Deutsch is sparking joy in the Arnold house this week. I thought I’d share. youtu.be/PPGYqPQPX…
“In all our children hear us speak of others, of friends or enemies, of the low, the vulgar, the wicked, let the impression they receive be, the love of Christ we seek to show.”
“Work is the way love takes shape in the world. A father works to provide. A mother works to nurture. A neighbor works to repair what is broken. A farmer works to husband the soil. A teacher works to pass on wisdom. A carpenter works to make shelter. A church member works to bear burdens.”
“the question we had better be asking much more regularly, publicly, and with each other: to what image is our technology conforming us?”
“I don’t mean to suggest that either side believes in “nothingness,” but that they have accepted the premise that persuasion is impossible, power is everything, and the human person’s agency is irrelevant.”
“Let every parent who feels conscious of his own shortcoming, and longs for wisdom and grace to do aright the work entrusted him, look back in faith and hope to the heavenly origin of family life. The God who created it has redeemed it too, and creates it anew.”
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I am excited for this edition! The other was way too big for actual use. I might get myself this for Easter.
I pray God grants you all a holy Lent. May He use this time to purge us of vice and conform us more to His image.
