May 2013
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A person’s character doesn’t come out of nowhere. It is built up over the course...
– Archbishop William E. Lori
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I thought I loved you, then the lights came on.
– M.Makahanaloa
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You see, we are called to greatness, each and every one of us. We are called to...
– Emily Stimpson, Catholic Vote
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My friend Margaret recently spoke of this pilgrimage at an event the Seattle Archdiocese hosts for young adults called Wine & Wisdom yesterday. Her story was so inspiring. I thought I’d share.
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How do I even begin to write how I feel? Among so many other things of different kinds of fears and several different flavors of disgust — Who have I become? How do I let this go? How might I be released from the feelings boiling inside my head, worries floating like dust from my dehydrated heart. My thoughts have and will haunt me. How do I run away from a thought? How do I kill a thought,...
We become what we love and who we love shapes what we become. If we love things,...
– Saint Claire of Assisi
The more we get what we now call ‘ourselves’ out of the way and let Him take us...
– C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity (via robmlee)
My heart wants roots
My mind wants wings.
I cannot bear
Their bickerings.
– E.Y. Harburg
April 2013
7 posts
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Existing < Living
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I can’t afford to be too busy to heal. I will do something today that...
– —Malia Makahanaloa
We must use what we learn or we will lose it.
And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human...
– C.S. Lewis
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the...
– C.S. Lewis
March 2013
9 posts
1 Corinthians 13
If I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of...
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And just like that, he said,
‘Now you see me, now you don’t.’
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—The Great Illusionist
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My flesh and my heart may fail,
but God is the strength of my heart
...
– Psalm 73:26
To say the very thing you mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other...
– C.S. Lewis No other author can spark my fire and love for God the way CS can. It is the feeling of falling in love all over again.
February 2013
4 posts
The doors I close, stay closed.
The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the...
– Ernest Hemingway
January 2013
1 post
December 2012
5 posts
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Leaps and Bounds
I have found that the more thankful we become, the more every thing grows. Perspectives widen, depths deepen, resentments become forgiveness, rushing meets patience. I am confident that at the edge of your hopelessness, you will find the courage to take a leap of faith.
“Faith is the capacity to allow God to surprise us.”
Archbishop Joseph Tobin, Indianapolis
—Malia Makahanaloa
November 2012
6 posts
In the sepulchre there by the sea.
– Annabel Lee, Edgar Allen Poe
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Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing...
– ROMANS 12:2
This time last year I sat in the middle of my own battle. One side wanting to...
– Malia Makahanaloa
“But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me”. 2 Corinthians 12:9
October 2012
5 posts
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The desire for God is written in the human heart, because man is created by God...
– The Catechism of the Catholic Church, Section1:”I Believe” — “We Believe” (26 - 184)
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The more we believe that God hurts only to heal, the less we can believe that...
– C.S. Lewis
September 2012
8 posts
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Today is a new day. Hiding from your history only shackles you to it. We can’t...
– ― Steve Maraboli ;Life, the Truth, and Being Free