A Thought for Today 27-08-2015

Matthew 7:24-27 (NRSVACE)

‘Everyone then who hears these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on rock. The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on rock. And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not act on them will be like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell—and great was its fall!’

 

“Catholics are necessarily at war with this age. That we are not more conscious of the fact, that we so often endeavor to make an impossible peace with it -- that is the tragedy. You cannot serve God and Mammon.”
(Eric Gill)

 

 

A Thought for Today 14-08-2015

Joshua 2:12 (NRSVACE)

Now then, since I have dealt kindly with you, swear to me by the Lord that you in turn will deal kindly with my family. Give me a sign of good faith 

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
(Desmond Tutu)

 

A Thought for Today 26-01-2015

John 14:14-16 (NRSVACE)

‘If in my name you ask me for anything, I will do it. If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, to be with you for ever.

Holiness does not consist in not making mistakes or sinning. Holiness grows with the capacity for conversion, repentance, willingness to begin again, and above all with the capacity for reconciliation and forgiveness.
(Pope Benedict XVI)

A Thought for Today 12-01-2015

Matthew 6:27 (NRSVACE)

And can any of you by worrying add a single hour to your span of life?

"Worry is the antithesis of trust. You simply cannot do both. They are mutually exclusive."
(Elisabeth Elliot)

A Thought for Today 05-01-2015

Matthew 6:25 (NRSVACE)

‘Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

"Worry is like a rocking chair-it keeps you moving but doesn't get you anywhere."
(Corrie Ten Boom)