Sublime

“What greater thing is there for two human souls,” George Eliot wrote in Adam Bede, “than to feel that they are joined for life—to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of last parting?”

Use your time for God. If you find souls who will share that goal, then you can drink God together from the chalice of divine friendship. The highest duty God has given you is to develop His consciousness in yourself and to help true friends to do the same. So long as life sweetly sings with God, it will bring happiness to you and to others. Friend

Augustine is our contemporary. He has directly and indirectly shaped the way we understand our pursuits, the call to authenticity.

Begin believing that the time, energy, and emotion you invest daily in the soulcraft of homecaring—carving out a haven for yourself and those dear to you—is a sacred endeavor.

The inner life of God is the ministry of shared union. The Father ministers to the Son as the Son finds complete union with the Father in and through the Holy Spirit. We are made in this image; our being is hypostatic—we are persons whose being is in relation to others—and therefore always in need of a minister.

Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. You can feel the silent and invisible life. All it needs from you is that you take care not to trample on it.

Some of us are three professions into our work life when we finally discover what really lights our fire.

Thoreau, of course, had had an almost identical experience. As soon as he made a commitment to his authentic voice, as soon as he moved back to his axis mundi, to Concord, to his immovable spot, his voice gained an energy, a clarity, and a power that it had never had.

In his book God Is the Gospel, John Piper essentially asks whether we are in love with God: The critical question for our generation—and for every generation—is this: If you could have heaven, with no sickness, and with all the friends you ever had on earth, and all the food you ever liked, and all the leisure activities you ever enjoyed, and all t