Archiving Quotes & Thoughts

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Quotes for the Week
But often, in the world's most crowded streets, But often, in the din of strife, There rises an unspeakable desire. After the knowledge of our buried life; A thirst to spend our fire and restless force. In tracking out our true, original course. A longing to inquire. Into the mystery of this heart which beats. So wild, so deep in us- to know. Whence our lives come and where they go. - Matthew Arnold

Across my foundering deck shone. A beacon, an eternal beam. Flesh fade, and mortal trash. Fall to the residuary worm; world's wildfire, leave but ash; In a flash, at trumpet crash, I am all at once what Christ is, since he was what I am, and this Jack, joke, poor potsherd, patch, matchwood, immortal diamond, Is immortal diamond. -Gerard Manley Hopkins

"Faith means you want God and want to want nothing else." Brennan Manning

Thoughts for the Week
First thought...My sleep patterns are back to normal after China. The routine has started to settle back into its normal course. I am both pleasantly pleased by this yet slightly disturbed at the same time. Trying to fight against the normalcy and complacently that is so easy to slide back into amidst the comfortable confines of our American lifestyle. I am not upset about our condition because I know each culture desires comfort but what I am concerned with is my casual indifference towards those who suffer.

Public Relations. It sounds like an official term but we all take part in it. Its a funny thing that our deepest desires is to be wholly known and to wholly know others and yet we put on so many different masks. We are afraid that if we take off our masks we will be rejected by others. And therein lies the problem; we fear more the rejection of others than believe in the acceptance from God.

I enjoy those days when my body seems quite rested and the land laid out before me seem quite deep and distant as if I'm living on a different plane from that which surrounds me. This speaks to me of Heaven