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The Lily of the Field and the Bird of the Air: Three Godly Discourses
For this cause do many things displease thee and often trouble thee, that thou art not yet perfectly dead to thyself nor separated from all earthly things. Nothing so defileth and entangleth the heart of man as impure love towards created things. If thou rejectest outward comfort thou wilt be able to contemplate heavenly things and frequently to be
... See moreThomas Kempis • The Imitation of Christ [with Biographical Introduction]
The true test of religious faith does not take place when things are going well, but “when the world commences its drastic ordeal, when the storms of life crush youth’s exuberant expectancy, when existence, which seemed so affectionate and gentle, changes into a pitiless proprietor who demands everything back.”23 The task is to confront the worst p
... See moreMartin Hägglund • This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom
“If only we arrange our life according to that principle which counsels us that we must hold to the difficult, then that which now still seems to us the most alien will become what we most trust and find most faithful.”
-Rainier Marie Rilke
