Archive for January 19th, 2010

Augustine on Faith and Pride

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

How will you be able to lift up your heart to God? Does your heart not need first to be healed before you can come to see God? Are you not revealing your pride when you cry out, “First let me see and then I will be healed”? —Augustine, Commentary on Psalm 39, 21 Share [...]

From the Morning Office

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

God loved the people of this world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who has faith in him will have eternal life and never really die. God did not send his Son into the world to condemn its people. He sent him to save them! No one who has faith [...]

Notable and Quotable

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

As the whole story of Christendom shows, if everything is asked for, everything—and more—will be accorded; if little, then nothing.

Evelyn Underhill on the Wholeness of the Spiritual Life

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

Most of our conflicts and difficulties come from trying to deal with the spiritual and practical aspects of our life separately instead of realising them as parts of one whole. If our practical life is centred on our own interests, cluttered up by possessions, distracted by ambitions, passions, wants, and worries, beset by a sense [...]

Haiti

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

If you are interested in helping the people of Haiti in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake there, the Anglican Relief and Development Fund is one venue to do that. Pray too for the people of Haiti. UPDATE: This via email from the AR&DF January 22, 2010 Anglicans have donated more than $70,000 through the [...]