Ezra 8:23
"So we fasted and petitioned our God about this, and he answered our prayer."
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"Decadence is the abandonment of standards and a levelling-down. It is the pursuit of the common in place of the striving to reach a higher level. Decadence is the wallowing in the transient. But perhaps most of all, on the individual level, decadence is lack of real character. Decadence elevates cleverness, ‘education’ and intellectual pretension over and above experience, courage and heroism. Decadence elevates self-indulgence above self-discipline. Decadence denigrates duty, honour and loyalty. Decadence affirms those things which those of weak character espouse - pacifism, peace, equality, 'harmony’, inter-racial 'love’. Decadence is materialistic - it mocks idealism, the numinous, and the profound, and in place of the aesthetic of beauty, it champions the ugly and the banal. Decadence is, fundamentally, a manifestation of what is weak, shallow, pretentious and vain. It is the philosophy, and the aesthetics, of the coward.”
~David W. Myatt
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“Unless men believe that they have an all-powerful ally outside time, they will inevitably abandon the ideal of a supernatural or anti-natural moral progress, and make the best of the world as they find it, conforming themselves to the law of self- interest and self-preservation which governs the rest of nature. And thus the philosophy of Progress, which had inspired such bound- less hopes for the future of the human race, resulted in negation and disillusionment. The Cartesian Reason, which had entered so triumphantly on its career of explaining nature and man to itself by its own unaided power, ended in a kind of rational suicide by explaining itself away.”
~Christopher Dawson
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"Liberty has produced scepticism, and scepticism has destroyed liberty. The lovers of liberty thought they were leaving it unlimited, when they were only leaving it undefined. They thought they were only leaving it undefined, when they were really leaving it undefended. Men merely finding themselves free found themselves free to dispute the value of freedom."
~G.K. Chesterton
My feelings are not God. God is God. My feelings do not define truth. God's word defines truth. My feelings are echoes and responses to what my mind perceives. And sometimes, many times, my feelings are out of sync with the truth. When that happens and it happens every day in some measure, I try not to bend the truth to justify my imperfect feelings, but rather, I plead with God: Purify my perceptions of your truth and transform my feelings so that they are in sync with the truth.
John Piper
”The reward for humility and fear of the Lord is riches and honor and life.“
“Great is the Baptism that lies before you: a ransom to captives; a remission of offenses; a death of sin; a new-birth of the soul; a garment of light; a holy indissoluble seal; a chariot to heaven; the delight of Paradise; a welcome into the kingdom; the gift of adoption!”
–St. Cyril of Jerusalem, Procatechesis, no. 16
"Human beings look separate because you see them walking about separately. But then we are so made that we can see only the present moment. If we could see the past, then of course it would look different. For there was a time when every man was part of his mother, and (earlier still) part of his father as well, and when they were part of his grandparents. If you could see humanity spread out in time, as God sees it, it would look like one single growing thing--rather like a very complicated tree. Every individual would appear connected with every other."
~C. S. Lewis
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Psalm 51:10
"Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me."
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Ash Wednesday is a poem written and narrated by T. S. Eliot after his 1927 conversion. Published in 1930, this poem deals with the struggle that ensues when one who has lacked faith in the past strives to move towards God.
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Psalm 51:1-4
1 "Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
2 Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
3 For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.
4 Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest."
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The laws of the spirit of man must hold, alike in this world and in any world he may invent. It were no offence to suppose a world in which everything repelled instead of attracted the things around it; it would be wicked to write a tale representing a man it called good as always doing bad things, or a man it called bad as always doing good things: the notion itseif is absolutely lawless. In physical things a man may invent; in moral things he must obey - and take their laws with him into his invented world as well.
— George MacDonald
"The fragments of the past that survive embarrass the modern landscape in which they stand out."
- Nicolás Gómez Dávila -
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𝐆𝐈𝐕𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐘𝐒𝐄𝐋𝐅 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐄𝐋𝐘
That Spiritual hunger, that yearning for the Divine.
That perfect alignment of the soul with the Will of God.
It brings forth a state of perfect confidence, perfect alertness and wakefulness. A perfect trust in the Divine and oneself. No doubt and no clutter or noise in the mind. A willingness to do whatever is necessary at that moment in time to achieve Truth and Goodness.