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With That Moon Language Admit something: Everyone you see, you say to them, "Love me." Of course you do not do this out loud; Otherwise, Someone would call the cops. Still though, think about this, This great pull in us to connect. Why not become the one Who lives with a full moon in each eye That is always saying With that sweet moon Language What every other eye in this world Is dying to Hear.
Gregory Boyle Quotes: With That Moon Language Admit
But I know, with all the certainty of my being, that Jesus has no interest in my doing this. To just say, "Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, I'm your biggest fan," causes him to stare at his watch, tap his feet, and order a double Glenlivet on the rocks with a twist. Fandom is of no interest to Jesus. What matters to him is the authentic following of a disciple. We all settle for saying, "Jesus," but Jesus wants us to be in the world who he is.
Gregory Boyle Quotes: But I know, with all
The poet Rumi writes, 'Find the real world, give it endlessly away, grow rich flinging gold to all who ask. Live at the empty heart of paradox. I'll dance there with you - cheek to cheek.
Gregory Boyle Quotes: The poet Rumi writes, 'Find
Human beings are settlers, but not in the pioneer sense. It is our human occupational hazard to settle for little. We settle for purity and piety when we are being invited to an exquisite holiness. We settle for the fear-driven when love longs to be our engine. We settle for a puny, vindictive God when we are being nudged always closer to this wildly inclusive, larger-than-any-life God. We allow our sense of God to atrophy. We settle for the illusion of separation when we are endlessly asked to enter into kinship with all.
Gregory Boyle Quotes: Human beings are settlers, but
If our primary concern is results, we will choose to work only with those who give us good ones.
Gregory Boyle Quotes: If our primary concern is
Part of the spirit dies a little each time its asked to carry more than its weight in terror, violence, and betrayal.
Gregory Boyle Quotes: Part of the spirit dies
What if we ceased to pledge our allegiance to the bottom line and stood, instead, with those who line the bottom?
Gregory Boyle Quotes: What if we ceased to
The Ancient Desert Fathers, when they were disconsolate and without hope, would repeat one word, over and over, as a kind of soothing mantra. And the word wasn't "Jesus" or "God" or "Love." The word was "Today." It kept them where they needed to be.
Gregory Boyle Quotes: The Ancient Desert Fathers, when
Resilience is born by grounding yourself in your own loveliness, hitting notes you thought were way out of your range.
Gregory Boyle Quotes: Resilience is born by grounding
Moral outrage is the opposite of God; it only divides and separates what God wants for us, which is to be united in kinship. Moral outrage doesn't lead us to solutions - it keeps us from them. It keeps us from moving forward toward a fuller, more compassionate response to members of our community who belong to us, no matter what they've done.
Gregory Boyle Quotes: Moral outrage is the opposite
[...] But then he adds quickly, "You know what I do when I'm low on faith?"
I shake my head and lean in. My faith's gas tank has been known to hover at "E", so I wanted to know.
"I stand right here and I look at them mountains," he says. "I stare at the blue sky and white clouds. I breathe in this clean air." He demonstrates all of this. "Then I say to myself, 'God did this.'"
He turns to me, with some emotion and a surfeit of peace. "And I know everything will be all right.
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Guilt, of course, is feeling bad about one's actions, but shame is feeling bad about oneself.
Gregory Boyle Quotes: Guilt, of course, is feeling
Our sense of God always beckons us us to grow, to reimagine something wildly more breathtaking than where our imagination generally takes us.
Gregory Boyle Quotes: Our sense of God always
[T]he principal suffering of the poor is shame and disgrace.
Gregory Boyle Quotes: [T]he principal suffering of the
Out of the wreck of our disfigured, misshapen selves, so darkened by shame and disgrace, indeed the Lord comes to us disguised as ourselves. And we don't grow into this - we just learn to pay better attention. The 'no matter whatness' of God dissolves the toxicity of shame and fills us with tender mercy. Favorable, finally, and called by name - by the one your mom uses when she's not pissed off.
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We simply need to change the lurking suspicion that some lives matter less than others. We are put on earth for a little space that we might learn to bear the beams of love. Turns out this is what we all have in common, we're just trying to learn how to bear those beams of love.
Gregory Boyle Quotes: We simply need to change
Sometimes, it only seems that the hurt wins.
Gregory Boyle Quotes: Sometimes, it only seems that
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