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To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to feed the mind with the truth of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God, to devote the will to the purpose of God. – William Temple

Dietrich Bonhoeffer on Death and Mourning

“Nothing can make up for the absence of someone whom we love, and it would be wrong to try to find a substitute; we must simply hold out and see it through. That sounds very hard at first, but at the same time it is a great consolation, for the gap, as long as itContinue reading “Dietrich Bonhoeffer on Death and Mourning”

Christ is the Word of God in person. The Bible is the Word of God in writing. Both are the Word of God in the words of men. Both have a human nature and a divine nature. Peter Kreeft

John Donne, Holy Sonnets

Death, be not proud, though some have called theeMighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;For those whom thou think’st thou dost overthrowDie not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be,Much pleasure; then from thee much more must flow,And soonest our best men with thee doContinue reading “John Donne, Holy Sonnets”

Luther on Death

What is our death but a night’s sleep? For as through sleep all weariness and faintness pass away and cease, and the powers of the spirit come back again, so that in the morning we arise fresh and strong and joyous; so at the Last Day we shall rise again as if we had onlyContinue reading “Luther on Death”

Luther on Faith and Death

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.Martin Luther

The Night of Death

I walk into the night of death, truly the darkest night; yet I know who awaits me in the glorious morn. Helmut Thielicke

Your wounds are not greater than the Physician’s skill. Have faith, tell the Physician what ails you. Cyril of Jerusalem

Dom Gregory Dix on the Eucharist through the Ages

He had told His friends to do this henceforward with the new meaning ‘for the anamnesis‘ of Him, and they have done it always since. Was ever another command so obeyed? For century after century, spreading slowly to every continent and country and among every race on earth, this action has been done, in every conceivableContinue reading “Dom Gregory Dix on the Eucharist through the Ages”

Mother and Child by Charles Causley

Holding in clear handsThe world’s true lightShe lifts its perfect flameAgainst the night. About its pulse of fireEarth and seas run,Season and moon and star,The unruly sun. Upon the hill a scuffedThinness of snow,First of green thorn, a streamStopped in its flow. She keeps within her handThe careful dayNow the slow wound of nightHas bledContinue reading “Mother and Child by Charles Causley”