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08/03/2025 – “When I trust deeply that today God is truly with me and holds me safe in a divine embrace, guiding every one of my steps I can let got of my anxious need to know how tomorrow will look, or what will happen next month or next year. I can be fully where I am and pay attention to the many signs of God’s love within me and around me.” Henri Nouwen (biography attached)

https://klcpublishing.substack.com/p/henri-nouwen-a-legacy-of-spiritual

Soli Deo Gloria!

07/31/2025 – “Real satisfaction comes not in understanding God’s motives, but in understanding His character, in trusting in His promises, and in leaning on Him and resting in Him as the Sovereign who knows what He is doing and does all things well.” Joni Eareckson Tada (biography attached)

Joni’s biography:

https://joniandfriends.org/news/joni-eareckson-tada-celebrates-her-75th-birthday-after-nearly-60-years-of-quadriplegia

Soli Deo Gloria!

07/29/2025 – “To love someone means to see them as God intended them.” Fyodor Dostoevsky / “Love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to the propitiation for our sins.” 1 John 4:10

Soli Deo Gloria!

07/24/2025 – ““It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God, people only succeed in bringing out the worst in one another. Lovers who have nothing else to do but love each other soon find there is nothing else. Without a central loyalty, life is unfinished.” Bishop Fulton Sheen

https://www.bishopsheen.com/pages/about-bishop-fulton-j-sheen

07/20/2025 – “I strongly suspect that if we saw all the difference even the tiniest of our prayers make, and all the people those…prayers were destined to affect…we would be so paralyzed with awe…that we would be unable to get up off our knees for the rest of our lives.” Peter Kreeft

Soli Deo Gloria!

07/18/2025 – “If God is not a Trinity, God is not love. For love requires three things: a lover, a beloved, and a relationship between them.” Peter Kreeft

Islam: “Where is the love?” . Who is their god? That would be Allah, a unipersonal god. You can have an all-powerful “unipersonal” god, at least in your own head …

07/12/2025 – ““Praying is spiritual work; and human nature does not like taxing, spiritual work. Human nature wants to sail to heaven under a favoring breeze, a full, smooth sea. Prayer is humbling work. It abases intellect and pride, crucifies vainglory, and signs our spiritual bankruptcy, and all these are hard for flesh and blood to bear. It is easier not to pray than to bear them. So we come to one of the crying evils of these times, maybe of all times–little or no praying. Of these two evils, perhaps little praying is worse than no praying. Little praying is a kind of make-believe, a salvo for the conscience, a farce and a delusion.” ― E.M. Bounds, “The Complete Works of E. M. Bounds” : Power Through Prayer, The Reality of Prayer, The Essentials of Prayer, The Weapon of Prayer, Satan: His Personality, Power And Overthrow and More.

E.M. Bounds bio:

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/942850.E_M_Bounds

Soli Deo Gloria!

07/08/2025 – ““All that is not eternal, is eternally out-of-date.”  C.S. Lewis

Soli Deo Gloria!