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This morning’s readings from The Reason for God and Pilgrim Heart yielded several quotes which I found to be particularly worthy of some further consideration:

If I am a grass field – all the cutting will keep the grass less but it won’t produce wheat. If I want wheat … I must be plowed up and re-sown. C. S. Lewis quoted in The Reason for God

When one stands at the crossroad looking for direction, one should ask: Who are my companions on the journey? Who challenges my thinking? Who interrogates and exposes my hidden motives, my pride, my blind spots, my selfish desires? Who keeps me honest? To whom am I listening with utmost attention? Pilgrim Heart

… spiritual maturity means living with a certain level of uncertainity and an honest awareness of our own suspect motives. Walking by faith means that we do not enjoy full sight or absolute certainty. We “trust and obey” as we peer through the glass darkly. Trust implies risk and – in the short term – even apparent failure. Pilgrim Heart

… it becomes problematic to try to measure the value of a life close at hand. Pilgrim Heart

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