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especially inspiring words of late

02/25/2023 · In: inspiration

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“Be constantly committed to prayer and to reading Scripture; by praying, you speak to God, in reading, God speaks to you.” St. Cyprian of Carthage

“Speak to your children as if they are the wisest, bravest, kindest, most wonderful human beings on the earth. For what they believe is what they shall become.” Brooke Hampton

“Cell, as referred to here, is a metaphor, an image, a place inside life, rather than someone’s private bedroom. Cell refers to duty, vocation, and commitment. In essence, this is what’s being said: Go to your cell, and your cell will teach you everything you need to know: Stay inside your vocation, inside your commitments, inside your legitimate conscriptive duties, inside your church, inside your family, and they will teach you where life is found and what love means. Be faithful to your commitments, and what you are ultimately looking for will be found there. Every time you leave your cell you come back less a person: This is telling us that every time we step outside our commitments, every time we are unfaithful, every time we walk away from what we should legitimately be doing, we come back less a person for that betrayal. There’s a rich spirituality in these principles: Stay inside your commitments, be faithful, your place of work is a seminary, your work is a sacrament, your family is a monastery, your home is a sanctuary. Stay inside them, don’t betray them, learn what they are teaching you without constantly looking for life elsewhere and without constantly believing that God is elsewhere.” Ronald Rolheiser

“Marriage reorients you entirely. Children do even more. Then it is your calling to help your husband by raising these little people. People, people everywhere and no time for yourself. But remember that this is your calling. It belongs to you. They belong to you.” Rachel Jankovic

“Long before anyone looked to me
Or said I had shoes to fill
You placed your peace upon my feet
And gave me a heart that can be still
And oh, what a comfort just to know
That I don’t ever walk alone
‘Cause you’re ever with me, my

Home, where I belong
My home, where I can’t go wrong
My home, where everything comes back together again
Where my heart leans back into your arms
And the walls I build just fall and everything comes back together again, I’m home

I’ve spent so much time running, running
Trying to make some big, grand entrance home
Carrying all of my treasures
I just want to make you proud of all I’ve done
But that’s when I see you running
From the screen door, on the front porch
With the smile that says it all
That you just want me home…”

— Christy Nockels, Home

“We need not fear that in seeking God only we may narrow our lives or restrict the motions of our expanding hearts. The opposite is true. We can well afford to make God our All, to concentrate, to sacrifice the many for the One.” A.W. Tozer

By: Chelsea Eubank · In: inspiration · Tagged: faith, inspirational words, motherhood, worship

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