The Human Poetry of Faith: A Spiritual Guide to LifePaulist Press, 2003 - 160 sivua Drawing on examples from literature, film and, popular culture, the author explores fresh ways to bring Christianity into the secular world. + |
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The Gateway of Friendship | 13 |
Struggles and Shadows | 30 |
Cries of Tragedy | 49 |
Solitude and Silence | 66 |
River of the Ordinary | 87 |
A Bridging Meditation | 104 |
Thresholds in Faith | 111 |
Some Theological Postscripts | 129 |
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adventure Aidan Mathews atheism Austen become Bernard Lonergan Celtic chapters Christ Christian comes conversion courage crisis cross culture D. H. Lawrence dark death deeper depth divine drama E. M. Forster egoism embrace Emma encounter everyday everything evil experience explore face faith feel Flannery O'Connor forgiveness Friedrich von Hügel friendship glimpse God's gospel grace healing heart Henri de Lubac Holy Saturday hope horizon human images imagination Jesus John Henry Newman John Moriarty journey language light live lonely mystery never Newman Nietzsche novel ordinary ourselves pain passion person poem poet poetry pre-religious presence priest realise reality recognise relationship religion religious revelation Rilke road Seamus Deane Sebastian Moore seems sense shadows silence solitude spirit story struggle suffering surprise terrible theology Thérèse threshold tion tragedy transformation trust vision voices vulnerability wavelength wisdom wonder words writing zones
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Sivu 60 - Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these ? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this ! Take physic, pomp ; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, And show the heavens more just.
Sivu 118 - I cannot look on thee. Love took my hand, and smiling did reply, Who made the eyes but I? Truth Lord, but I have marr'd them: let my shame Go where it doth deserve.
Sivu 17 - EMMA Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence ; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.
Sivu 43 - If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
Sivu 51 - Don't you understand I loved him - I loved him - I loved him!" 'I pulled myself together and spoke slowly. ' "The last word he pronounced was - your name." 'I heard a light sigh and then my heart stood still, stopped dead short by an exulting and terrible cry, by the cry of inconceivable triumph and of unspeakable pain. "I knew it - I was sure!
Sivu 65 - I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day. What hours, O what black hours we have spent This night! what sights you, heart, saw; ways you went! And more must, in yet longer light's delay. With witness I speak this. But where I say Hours I mean years, mean life. And my lament Is cries countless, cries like dead letters sent To dearest him that lives alas! away. I am gall, I am heartburn.
Sivu 38 - He lifted his head from his drinking, as cattle do, And looked at me vaguely, as drinking cattle do, And flickered his two-forked tongue from his lips, and mused a moment, And stooped and drank a little more, Being earth-brown, earth-golden from the burning bowels of the earth On the day of Sicilian July, with Etna smoking.
Sivu 119 - You must sit down, says Love, and taste my meat : So I did sit and eat.
Sivu 86 - O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. Hold them cheap May who ne'er hung there. Nor does long our small Durance deal with that steep or deep. Here! creep, Wretch, under a comfort serves in a whirlwind: all Life death does end and each day dies with sleep.