Tag: God
My soul find what you were seeking
My soul, say to God: ‘Who are you, Lord, that I may know you?’ You alone are what you are and who you are, that is, that than which nothing greater can be thought, nor anything better, nor more joyful. You are life, wisdom, light, truth, goodness, eternity, the one whom all need that they… Read More ›
Where is God?
Do you ask: if all things are in him, where is [God]? I can answer nothing more inadequately than this: what place can contain him? Do you ask where he is not? I cannot even answer that. What place is without God? God is incomprehensible, but you have learned a great deal if you discovered… Read More ›
Seek his face always
To seek God is a great good; in my opinion the soul knows no greater blessing. It is the first of her gifts and the final stage in her progress. It is inferior to none, and it yields place to none. What could be superior to it, when nothing has a higher place? What could claim a… Read More ›
God’s love is immense and immeasurable
The love of God with which he loved us before the foundation of the world and chose us in his beloved Son is itself the source and origin of all the good things which were bestowed upon us on the day of our creation, the day of our redemption, and the day of our justification… Read More ›
Discover that which has no Beginning
What is God? The Beginning; this is the answer he gave of himself Many things in the world are spoken of as beginnings, and this is in respect to what comes after them. Yet if you look back and see something which precedes another, you will call that the beginning. Therefore, if you seek the… Read More ›
Complain!
God does not frown on your complaint. Did not His Mother in the Temple ask: “Son! Why hast thou done so to us?” And did not Christ on the Cross complain: “My God! Why hast Thou abandoned Me?” If the Son asked the Father, And the Mother the Son – “Why?” Why should not you?… Read More ›
True freedom is interior
Freedom is what makes man to be man. Freedom is what distinguishes man from the rest of visible reality—sun, moon, stars, elements, plants and animals. On the natural level, freedom is man’s greatest gift or quality. What is freedom? Freedom is the ability to choose between various goods; it means that man is not determined… Read More ›
The World divorced from God
. . .but the point is that the greatest threat to world peace and international justice is the nation state gone bad, claiming an absolute power, deciding questions and making “laws” beyond its competence. Few there are, however, who would venture to ask if there might be a better way for humanity to organize itself… Read More ›
Finding God’s will
(notes for a talk I’m giving) At times it can seem like finding God’s will for some people is like going to an Easter egg hunt. Looking under bushes and rocks, seeking to find the God’s will written out in bold letters: “This is it, my will”….”you win”. Of course it is noting like that,… Read More ›
Love of God, love of neighbor, and love of self
Although there is an evident distinction between love of God, love of neighbor, and love of self, a marvelous bond nevertheless does exist among the three, so that each is found in all, and all in each. None of them can be possessed without all, and when one wavers they all diminish. Someone who does… Read More ›