Seeds - June 2005

Blessed indeed are "those who have not seen, and yet have learned to believe!" Those who ask for no miracles, demand nothing out of the ordinary, but who find God's message in everyday life. Those who require no compelling proofs, but who know that everything coming from God must remain in a certain ultimate suspense, so that faith may never cease to require daring. Those who know that the heart is not overcome by faith, that there is no force or violence there, compelling belief by rigid certitudes. What comes from God touches gently, comes quietly; does not disturb freedom; leads to quiet, profound, peaceful resolve within the heart.
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- Romano Guardini (1885 - 1968), "Believing is Seeing", from Jesus Christus: Meditations. 1959.

Seeds - April/May 2005

A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic -- on the level with a man who says he is a poached egg -- or he would be the devil of hell. You must take your choice. Either this was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us.

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- C.S. Lewis (1898 - 1963), Mere Christianity. Christian Writer.

Seeds - March 2005

Without poverty of spirit there can be no abundance of God.
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- Oscar Romero (1917 - 1980), Archibishop of El Salvador. Martyr.