DISTURBING THE PRESENT

INTEGRITY

ARROGANCE

Arrogance ignores and rejects ideas from others humility welcomes them. – Dan Rockwell

THE RIGHTS OF MAN

WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING FOR?

“Those who look for the beautiful and pure and spiritually significant things in life can always find them – and in so doing be satisfied.” -Dave Graebel

FAITH ALONE?

It is faith alone that justifies but faith that justifies can never be alone. – John Calvin

THE MYTH OF CONTROL

“Whatever controls us is our lord. The person who seeks power is controlled by power. The person who seeks acceptance is controlled by acceptance. We do not control ourselves. We are controlled by the lord of our lives.”
― Rebecca Manley Pippert, Out of the Saltshaker and Into the World

BIGOTRY

"The people who are the most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all."

G. K. Chesterton

THANKSGIVING

“The foremost quality of a trusting disciple is gratefulness. Gratitude arises from the lived perception, evaluation, and acceptance of all of life as grace—as an undeserved and unearned gift from the Father’s hand. Such recognition is itself the work of grace, and acceptance of the gift is implicitly an acknowledgement of the Giver.” (Brennan Manning in Ruthless Trust)

THE NECESSITY OF REALITY

"There is no greater disaster in the spiritual life than to be immersed in unreality, for life is maintained and nourished in us by our vital relation to reality." - Thomas Merton