Isaac Penington - Letters on Spiritual Virtues
Learn from the lesson of the garden of Eden and seek life not knowledge.
Keep yourself where you have felt the Lord visit you in the past.
Sunday, October 29, 2006
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Renovare Catch-Up ( May 16 - Oct 26 )
George Buttrick - Simple Regimen of Prayer
Prayer is friendship, not formal, but also not formless
1. Silent Self Preparation - focused on God
2. Faith - "ask and you shall receive"
3. Thanksgiving - joys of our journey
4. Confession - then freedom
5. Intercession - pray for our enemies
6. Petition
Evelyn Underhill - What do we Mean by Prayer
Frank Laubach - Opening Windows to God
John Baillie - Morning Prayers
Martin Luther - Praying in Faith
There is no Christian who does not have time to pray without ceasing.
Gregory of Nyssa - Running the Race
Perfection is discovered in continual striving - a perpetual progress rooted in the infinite grace of God.
Every good thing generally ends with all those things which are percieved to be contrary to the good. We consider becoming God's friend the only thing worthy of honor and desire. This is the perfection of life.
Richard Rolle - the Spiritual Flame
Seek to love God rather than amass knowledge for he is not known by argument but by what we do and how we love.
John Calvin - the Joy of Self-Denial
Blaise Pascal - Falling into Presumption
"We have so little knowledge of what God is that we do not know what we are ourselves."
"There is enough light for those who desire only to see, and enough darkness for those of a contrary disposition."
Thomas a Kempis - Dealing with Temptation
"No one is completely free of temptations because the source of tempation is in ourselves."
Four Sources of Peace
1) strive to do another's will rather than your own
2) choose always to have less than more
3) seek the lower places in life
4) always and in everything desire that the will of God may be completely fulfilled in you.
William Law - God the Rule and Measure
"Just as we cannot live a holy life without prayer, so we cannot have prayer without a holy life." Either Christianity prescribes rules to live by in our daily lives or it does not.
Theresa of Avila - Striving to Make Progress
Reason, Faith, Memory, Will, Understanding are all wonderful capacities that can bring us closer to God.
"Our works have no value unless they are united with faith, and our faith has no value unless it is united with works."
"May God grant us the ability to see how much we cost him, to see that the servant is not greater than the master, to see that we must work if we would enjoy his glory."
Thomas Kelly - Testament of Devotion
outward deeds ( works ) "are the fruits, not the roots."
Catherine of Genoa - Waiting upon God
"God's love for me has it planned that I will achieve peace little by little for the sake of preserving me and keeping me humble so as to be tolerable to myself and others."
George Fox - Walking in the Power of God
Let your lives preach, let your light shine that your works may be seen, that your Father may be glorified. Do rightly, justly, truly, holily, equally to all people in all things.
Ignatious of Loyola - Movement Produced in the Soul
Consolation - inflamed with love of the Creator, sorrow for sins, increase of faith, hope, charity and joy.
Desolation - darkness of the soil, turmoil of the mind, inclination to low and earthly things, restlessness, loss of faith, hope, and love. Apathy, sadness, separation from the Creator.
In consolation, plan ahead to how to act in desolation.
Conduct a "post-mortem" after being tempted to better guard oneself in the future.
Jean-Pierre de Caussade - The Present Moment
God's order, his pleasure, his will, his action and grace; all these are one and the same. All we need to know is how to recognize his will in the present moment. Readings, contemplations, and confessions that are "ordained" by God will establish Jesus Christ in our heart. Without the divine will reading only blinds and perplexes, with it it enlightens.
"Without God there can be no order anywhere."
Isaac Penington Letters on Spiritual Virtues
"Keep yourself where you have felt the Lord visit you that he may visit you again and again." Seek life not knowledge (ala Genesis 2 )
"True prayer is not in the time, in the will, or in the power of the person praying. Rather it is a gift of God that resides in his Spirit."
Prayer is friendship, not formal, but also not formless
1. Silent Self Preparation - focused on God
2. Faith - "ask and you shall receive"
3. Thanksgiving - joys of our journey
4. Confession - then freedom
5. Intercession - pray for our enemies
6. Petition
Evelyn Underhill - What do we Mean by Prayer
Frank Laubach - Opening Windows to God
John Baillie - Morning Prayers
Martin Luther - Praying in Faith
There is no Christian who does not have time to pray without ceasing.
Gregory of Nyssa - Running the Race
Perfection is discovered in continual striving - a perpetual progress rooted in the infinite grace of God.
Every good thing generally ends with all those things which are percieved to be contrary to the good. We consider becoming God's friend the only thing worthy of honor and desire. This is the perfection of life.
Richard Rolle - the Spiritual Flame
Seek to love God rather than amass knowledge for he is not known by argument but by what we do and how we love.
John Calvin - the Joy of Self-Denial
Blaise Pascal - Falling into Presumption
"We have so little knowledge of what God is that we do not know what we are ourselves."
"There is enough light for those who desire only to see, and enough darkness for those of a contrary disposition."
Thomas a Kempis - Dealing with Temptation
"No one is completely free of temptations because the source of tempation is in ourselves."
Four Sources of Peace
1) strive to do another's will rather than your own
2) choose always to have less than more
3) seek the lower places in life
4) always and in everything desire that the will of God may be completely fulfilled in you.
William Law - God the Rule and Measure
"Just as we cannot live a holy life without prayer, so we cannot have prayer without a holy life." Either Christianity prescribes rules to live by in our daily lives or it does not.
Theresa of Avila - Striving to Make Progress
Reason, Faith, Memory, Will, Understanding are all wonderful capacities that can bring us closer to God.
"Our works have no value unless they are united with faith, and our faith has no value unless it is united with works."
"May God grant us the ability to see how much we cost him, to see that the servant is not greater than the master, to see that we must work if we would enjoy his glory."
Thomas Kelly - Testament of Devotion
outward deeds ( works ) "are the fruits, not the roots."
Catherine of Genoa - Waiting upon God
"God's love for me has it planned that I will achieve peace little by little for the sake of preserving me and keeping me humble so as to be tolerable to myself and others."
George Fox - Walking in the Power of God
Let your lives preach, let your light shine that your works may be seen, that your Father may be glorified. Do rightly, justly, truly, holily, equally to all people in all things.
Ignatious of Loyola - Movement Produced in the Soul
Consolation - inflamed with love of the Creator, sorrow for sins, increase of faith, hope, charity and joy.
Desolation - darkness of the soil, turmoil of the mind, inclination to low and earthly things, restlessness, loss of faith, hope, and love. Apathy, sadness, separation from the Creator.
In consolation, plan ahead to how to act in desolation.
Conduct a "post-mortem" after being tempted to better guard oneself in the future.
Jean-Pierre de Caussade - The Present Moment
God's order, his pleasure, his will, his action and grace; all these are one and the same. All we need to know is how to recognize his will in the present moment. Readings, contemplations, and confessions that are "ordained" by God will establish Jesus Christ in our heart. Without the divine will reading only blinds and perplexes, with it it enlightens.
"Without God there can be no order anywhere."
Isaac Penington Letters on Spiritual Virtues
"Keep yourself where you have felt the Lord visit you that he may visit you again and again." Seek life not knowledge (ala Genesis 2 )
"True prayer is not in the time, in the will, or in the power of the person praying. Rather it is a gift of God that resides in his Spirit."
