When Christ said: "I was hungry and you fed me," he didn't mean only the hunger for bread and for food; he also meant the hunger t...o be loved. Jesus himself experienced this loneliness. He came amongst his own and his own received him not, and it hurt him then and it has kept on hurting him. The same hunger, the same loneliness, the same having no one to be accepted by and to be loved and wanted by. Every human being in that case resembles Christ in his loneliness; and that is the hardest part, that's real hunger.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One memorable addition to the old mythology is due to this era,--the Christian fable. With what pains, and tears, and blood these ...centuries have woven this and added it to the mythology of mankind! The new Prometheus. With what miraculous consent, and patience, and persistency has this mythus been stamped on the memory of the race! It would seem as if it were in the progress of our mythology to dethrone Jehovah, and crown Christ in his stead.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn.... The first in loftiness of thought surpassed, The next in majesty, in both the last: The force of Nature could no farther go; To make a third she joined the former two.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As each Sister is to become a Co-Worker of Christ in the slums, each ought to understand what God and the Missionaries of Charity ...expect from her. Let Christ radiate and live his life in her and through her in the slums. Let the poor, seeing her, be drawn to Christ and invite him to enter their homes and their lives. Let the sick and suffering find in her a real angel of comfort and consolation. Let the little ones of the streets cling to her because she reminds them of him, the friend of the little ones.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The famous painting of The Death of Socrates by David ..., if set aside as a crucifixion picture, brings out a way in which Socrat...es' death was quite unlike that of Christ. While his disciples are in agonies of grief, Socrates himself remains calm and poised; his philosophy has saved him from pain and passion. Christ, on the contrary, dies after hours of torment and doubt. Socrates imperturbably takes the cup of hemlock: Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane cries out, "Take this cup from me."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Christ has called us to new visions Here to celebrate and praise,... Here confess our old divisions, Here our peace petitions raise. Come repentant, come forgiving, Come in joy and hope and prayer. Christ, once crucified, now living, Bids us faith and love to share.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Yet I well remember The favors of these men. Were they not mine?... Did they not sometimes cry "All hail!" to me? So Judas did to Christ; but He, in twelve, Found truth in all but one; I, in twelve thousand, none.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One story recounts that a Tennessean, after a single day in the then almost impenetrable tangle of cypress, briars, and canebreaks..., pestered by myriads of mosquitoes, and bogged in the heavy gumbo mud, declared: "Arkansas is not part of the world for which Jesus Christ died--I want none of it."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »