Readings for each day of the week
Alcoholics Anonymous, pages 86 to 88; Step Eleven, morning
Friday
On awakening let us think about the twenty-four hours ahead. We consider our plans for the day. Before we begin, we ask God to direct our thinking, especially asking that it be divorced from self-pity, dishonest or self-seeking motives. Under these conditions we can employ our mental faculties with assurance, for after all God gave us brains to use. Our thought-life will be placed on a much higher plane when our thinking is cleared of wrong motives.
Saturday
In thinking about our day we may face indecision. We may not be able to determine which course to take. Here we ask God for inspiration, an intuitive thought or a decision. We relax and take it easy. We don’t struggle. We are often surprised how the right answers come after we have tried this for a while. What used to be the hunch or the occasional inspiration gradually becomes a working part of the mind. Being still inexperienced and having just made conscious contact with God, it is not probable that we are going to be inspired at all times. We might pay for this presumption in all sorts of absurd actions and ideas. Nevertheless, we find that our thinking will, as time passes, be more and more on the plane of inspiration. We come to rely upon it.
Sunday
We usually conclude the period of meditation with a prayer that we be shown all through the day what our next step is to be, that we be given whatever we need to take care of such problems. We ask especially for freedom from self-will, and are careful to make no request for ourselves only. We may ask for ourselves, however, if others will be helped. We are careful never to pray for our own selfish ends. Many of us have wasted a lot of time doing that and it doesn’t work. You can easily see why.
Monday
If circumstances warrant, we ask our wives or friends to join us in morning meditation. If we belong to a religious denomination which requires a definite morning devotion, we attend to that also. If not members of religious bodies, we sometimes select and memorize a few set prayers which emphasize the principles we have been discussing.
Tuesday
There are many helpful books also. Suggestions about these may be obtained from one’s priest, minister, or rabbi. Be quick to see where religious people are right. Make use of what they offer.
Wednesday
As we go through the day we pause, when agitated or doubtful, and ask for the right thought or action. We constantly remind ourselves we are no longer running the show, humbly saying to ourselves many times each day “Thy will be done.” We are then in much less danger of excitement, fear, anger, worry, self-pity, or foolish decisions.
Thursday
We become much more efficient. We do not tire so easily, for we are not burning up energy foolishly as we did when we were trying to arrange life to suit ourselves.
It works—it really does.
We alcoholics are undisciplined. So we let God discipline us in the simple way we have just outlined.
Calendar readings
01 January 2025
Människan spår, men Gud rår.
People predict, but God’s in charge.
Swedish proverb
02 January 2025
We must never become tired of doing good, because if we do not give up the struggle we shall reap our harvest in due course. While opportunity offers, we must do good to all.
Responsory, Monday of week 34 of Ordinary Time
03 January 2025
No natural feelings are high or low, holy or unholy, in themselves. They are all holy when God’s hand is on the rein. They all go bad when they set up on their own and make themselves into false gods.
C. S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
04 January 2025
“You see, but don’t observe. The distinction is perfectly clear. For example, you have often seen the staircase leading from the lobby to this room.”
“Certainly.”
“How often?”
“Well, several hundred times.”
“Then, you can tell me how many there are.”
“How many steps? I don’t know.”
“Do you understand now? You haven’t observed, despite having seen. That’s what I wanted to tell you. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps because I have seen and observed.”
Arthur Conan Doyle, A Scandal in Bohemia
05 January 2025
Do your best, and God will do the rest!
Anonymous AA member
06 January 2025
The programme is a set menu, not a buffet.
Anonymous AA member
07 January 2025
I over-think, therefore I over-am.
Graffiti in Whitechapel
08 January 2025
A man is never so proud as when striking an attitude of humility.
C. S. Lewis
09 January 2025
When you have done all you have been told to do, say, ‘We are merely servants: we have done no more than our duty.’
Luke 17:10
10 January 2025
All, even the most superficial, have at times felt that there is something ‘other’, something ‘further’, something ‘beyond’ ordinary experience; have had the feeling that the whole of what we are or would be is not realised in the situation in which we find ourselves; have come to the conviction that ‘more’ and ‘better’ exist beyond what we have experienced hitherto. Just as children in the murmur of a shell held up to the ear listen to the swell and surge of the sea, so we, from time to time, seem to catch echoes and intimations of a life, a vigour, and a meaning which exist beyond familiar sights and sounds. Even in ecstatic happiness we sense that there is something more, something not yet attained; in sorrow we are aware poignantly of so much that apparently has been held from us.
Dom Aelred Watkin
11 January 2025
In brief, acquit thee bravely; play the man.
Look not on pleasures as they come, but go.
Defer not the least virtue: life's poor span
Make not an ell, by trifling in thy woe.
If thou do ill; the joy fades, not the pains:
If well; the pain doth fade, the joy remains.
[a span = 7 inches; an ell = 45 inches, used in idioms to mean an excessive length]
George Herbert
12 January 2025
Spells are used for breaking enchantments as well as for inducing them. And you and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness which has been laid upon us for nearly a hundred years. Almost our whole education has been directed to silencing this shy, persistent, inner voice; almost all our modem philosophies have been devised to convince us that the good of man is to be found on this earth.
C. S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory
13 January 2025
Almighty and merciful God,
graciously keep from us all adversity,
so that, unhindered in mind and body alike,
we may pursue in freedom of heart
the things that are yours.
Collect on 15 November 2023
14 January 2025
Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward.
Colossians 3:23–24
15 January 2025
Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Amend your lives and your deeds: then shall I dwell here among you.
Responsory based on Jeremiah, Universalis
16 January 2025
Come close to God, and he will come close to you.
Responsory based on Jeremiah, Universalis
17 January 2025
Worrying is carrying tomorrow’s load with today’s strength—carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time.
Corrie ten Boom
18 January 2025
[...] we remain conscious of a desire which no natural happiness will satisfy. But is there any reason to suppose that reality offers any satisfaction to it? “Nor does the being hungry prove that we have bread.” But I think it may be urged that this misses the point. A man’s physical hunger does not prove that that man will get any bread; he may die of starvation on a raft in the Atlantic. But surely a man’s hunger does prove that he comes of a race which repairs its body by eating and inhabits a world where eatable substances exist. In the same way, though I do not believe (I wish I did) that my desire for Paradise proves that I shall enjoy it, I think it a pretty good indication that such a thing exists and that some men will.
C. S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory
19 January 2025
God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
1 Peter 5:7
20 January 2025
Trusting God to take care of the things we cannot do anything about and trusting Him to give us the direction we need to handle what we can do ourselves should be our normal response to problems.
Meyer, Joyce. The Answer to Anxiety: How to Break Free from the Tyranny of Anxious Thoughts and Worry
21 January 2025
[...] the more sorrow the more joy. If we have loads of sorrow, then the Lord’s power will turn them into tons of joy. Then the bitterer the trouble the sweeter the pleasure: the swinging of the pendulum far to the left will cause it to go all the farther to the right. The remembrance of the grief shall heighten the flavour of the delight: we shall set the one in contrast with the other, and the brilliance of the diamond shall be the more clearly seen because of the black foil behind it.
Charles H. Spurgeon, Faith’s Check Book
22 January 2025
At this hour a mountain of difficulty, distress, or necessity may be in our way, and natural reason sees no path over it, or through it, or round it. Let faith come in, and straightway the mountain disappears and becomes a plain. But faith must first hear the word of the Lord—”Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord of hosts.” This grand truth is a prime necessity for meeting the insurmountable trials of life.
Charles H. Spurgeon, Faith’s Check Book
23 January 2025
We tend to complicate things that could be simple by doing things our way instead of His way.
Meyer, Joyce. The Answer to Anxiety: How to Break Free from the Tyranny of Anxious Thoughts and Worry
24 January 2025
A handful of golden earth, a puff of fame, a shout of applause, a thriving business, my house, my home, will affect me more than all the glories of the upper world; yea, than the beatific vision itself: simply because earth is near, and heaven is far away.
Charles H. Spurgeon
25 January 2025
I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
Arthur Conan Doyle, A Scandal in Bohemia
26 January 2025
I believe that God will help us find peace if we could only learn to dialogue with each other and to respect each other’s dignity.
Msgr Robert Vitillo
27 January 2025
There’s a highly insulting line in Chapter 18. “You are still convinced that your understanding is a powerful contribution to the truth, and makes it what it is”. It is a very insulting line. We’re always trying to understand. And we’re trying to understand the body. What Jesus is teaching us throughout this course is that what you’re trying to understand is nothing. It’s meaninglessness trying to understand meaninglessness and find meaning there.
Kenneth Wapnick, Ph.D., The God Spot: Spirit or Body?
28 January 2025
The root of all spiritual error:
- I can do what I want
- No one has the right to command me
- I recognise no god but myself
Father Vincent Lampert
29 January 2025
Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, SJ
30 January 2025
Ships don’t sink because of the water they’re in. They sink because of the water they let in.
Anonymous
31 January 2025
There’s a story about Padre Pio. One night, he heard something in his room. It was Satan himself. Padre Pio said, “Oh, it’s just you, Bluebeard. I thought it was someone important.”
01 February 2025
Attachments are like the dog with the rag: you wave the rag in front of the dog, he clamps his jaws down on the rag, and you can then drag him anywhere, because he’s not gonna give up on it. That’s an attachment.
Father Chad Ripperger
02 February 2025
Oh, rebellious children, says the Lord, who carry out a plan, but not mine.
Isaiah 30:1
03 February 2025
No one can ever be lost to God who wants to be found.
Father Vincent Lampert
04 February 2025
Grace is an unearned gift of power to do what you should but can’t.
Anonymous
05 February 2025
What’s important in this course in terms of one’s spiritual development and one’s making one’s way up the ladder to return home is the day-in and day-out practice of changing your mind. It is not about having these glorious experiences when Heaven opens up. It is about the day-in and day-out work of asking Jesus or the Holy Spirit constantly to help you look at a situation differently, from the moment you wake up until the moment you go to bed at night. That’s how you measure growth in this course, and that’s how growth and change occurs. It has nothing to do with an experience.
Kenneth Wapnick, Ph.D., The God Spot: Spirit or Body?
06 February 2025
Always and everywhere, bear in mind that you must love God and your neighbour, love God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind; and love your neighbour as you would love yourself. We must always ponder these words, meditate them, hold them in our minds, practise them and bring them to fruition. As far as teaching is concerned, the love of God comes first; but as far as doing is concerned, the love of our neighbour comes first. Whoever sets out to teach you these two commandments of love must not commend your neighbour to you first, and then God, but God first and then your neighbour. You, on the other hand, do not yet see God, but loving your neighbour will bring you that sight. By loving your neighbour you purify your eyes so that they are ready to see God, as John clearly says: If you do not love your brother, whom you see, how can you love God, whom you do not see?
From a treatise on John by St Augustine
07 February 2025
Every ship needs a knowledge of where it is going, the will and command to go there, and the sailor’s work of bringing it there. Aristotle similarly divided up all human sciences into the theoretical, practical and productive. In Plato’s terms, we are reason, “spirited part”, and appetites. This is the psychological basis for his natural division of society into philosophers, warriors, and producers. In Freud’s terms, we are superego, ego, and id. We are head, hands, and heart. We respond to truth, goodness, and beauty.
Peter Kreeft, Lewis’s Philosophy of Truth, Goodness, and Beauty, C. S. Lewis as Philosopher
08 February 2025
Eventually he got the true tale out of Bilbo after much questioning, which for a while strained their friendship; but the wizard seemed to think the truth important.
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
09 February 2025
By the gift of sight, natural but divinely appointed, we can enjoy beauty; by the gift of hearing we can delight in sounds; by the gift of mind we can appreciate what we read; by the gift of speech we can communicate and receive … and so on. We can examine ourselves on how often we explicitly thank God for these faculties and for the good which we can gain from them.
Dom Hubert van Zeller, And So To God
10 February 2025
Someone has defined gratitude as “the use of the gift according to the wish of the giver”. Thus if someone were to give us a birthday cake it would be an act of ingratitude to crumble it up and feed it to the chickens. So it is an act of ingratitude to misuse the faculties of sight, hearing, mind, speech, and so on. It might be a good exercise, during a retreat for instance, to make a list of the things which we value most in our lives and then to go over it marking which ones we have explicitly thanked God for. Not many. Yet gratitude is, as we have seen in the previous chapter, meant to be an integral part of our prayer. The spiritual life cannot flourish without it.
Dom Hubert van Zeller, And So To God
11 February 2025
A cause for gratitude which is easily overlooked is having been prevented from committing sins which, only on looking back, we see how close we came to committing. Also on looking back, we should be grateful that some of those prayers which we so earnestly hoped would be heard were in fact not heard and, had they been heard, we can see now how much worse off we would have been. The lesson taught by this is that when at the time we are disappointed at not having our petitions granted, we should envisage a day in the future when we shall be only too glad that our requests to God were turned down.
Dom Hubert van Zeller, And So To God
12 February 2025
Mißverständnisse und Trägheit machen vielleicht mehr Irrungen in der Welt als List und Bosheit. Wenigstens sind die beiden letzteren gewiß seltener.
Misunderstanding and sloth are perhaps responsible for more misadventure in the world than guile and malice. At any rate, the latter two are certainly rarer.
Goethe
13 February 2025
There is no length to which He will not go, no depth to which He will not descend, to win the love of your heart and mine. God is always searching for us through that sense of separation that we may be experiencing. Even though God seems absent, God is never absent and is trying hard to reach us through what I like to call our sense of lostness.
Father Leo Clifford
14 February 2025
Okay. I’m cookie dough ... I’m not done baking. I’m not finished becoming whoever the hell it is I’m gonna turn out to be. I make it through this, and the next thing, and the next thing, and maybe one day, I turn around and realise I’m ready. I’m cookies. And then, you know, if I want someone to eat ... or enjoy warm, delicious, cookie me, then ... that’s fine. That’ll be then ... when I’m done.
Buffy Summers, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
15 February 2025
Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the Lord thy God, He it is that doth go with thee; He will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.
Deuteronomy 31:6 (KJV)
16 February 2025
Money and prestige won’t protect you. You have to protect them.
Grady O’H
17 February 2025
A fanatic is one who entrenches himself in invincible ignorance.
Oswald Chambers
18 February 2025
Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.
St Thomas Aquinas, Two Precepts of Charity, 1273
19 February 2025
“A blessing in disguise,” said Susan.
“Some disguise!” said Edmund.
C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian
20 February 2025
There will be hard times when your faith will be attacked and when your doubts will be increased. What will you do? Persevere in prayer now.
Mother Angelica
21 February 2025
The only way you can endure your pain is to let it be painful.
Shunryu Suzuki
22 February 2025
From the Benedictus:
To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.
Luke 1:79 (KJV)
23 February 2025
“Welcome, child,” he said.
“Aslan,” said Lucy, “you’re bigger.”
“That is because you are older, little one,” answered he.
“Not because you are?”
“I am not. But every year you grow, you will find me bigger.”
C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian
24 February 2025
St Paul urges the Philippians to “dismiss all anxiety from your minds. Present your needs to God in every form of prayer and in petitions full of gratitude” (Philippians 4:6). ... It is an instruction as well as an exhortation, and in its few words contains much that we should know about the most important element in our service of God. If we get our prayer right we necessarily follow up with the other aspect of charity which is love of others.
Dom Hubert van Zeller, And So To God
25 February 2025
What really hurts is not so much suffering itself as the fear of suffering. If welcomed trustingly and peacefully, suffering makes us grow. It matures and trains us, purifies us, teaches us to love unselfishly, makes us poor in heart, humble, gentle, and compassionate toward our neighbour. Fear of suffering, on the other hand, hardens us in self-protective, defensive attitudes, and often leads us to make irrational choices with disastrous consequences.
Father Jacques Philippe, Interior Freedom
26 February 2025
“Oh, Aslan,” said Lucy. “... How could I—I couldn’t have left the others and come up to you alone, how could I? Don’t look at me like that ... oh well, I suppose I could. Yes, and it wouldn’t have been alone, I know, not if I was with you. But what would have been the good?”
Aslan said nothing.
“You mean,” said Lucy rather faintly, “that it would have turned out all right—somehow?”
27 February 2025
No man has ever seen God. But you must not think yourself wholly unsuited to seeing God: God is love, says John, and whoever dwells in love dwells in God. So love whoever is nearest to you and look inside you to see where that love is coming from: thus, as far as you are capable, you will see God.
From a treatise on John by St Augustine
28 February 2025
Prayer then is an act of obedience as well as an act of love. This means that, besides the affections, there has to be the act of will. The will to love starts the prayer, and even when love takes over there is still a part for the will to play—the will to go on praying. So, given the will to pray and not to give up on account of distractions or boredom or not being cut out for it or not being in the mood for it, there is nothing in the world which can prevent the prayer, whether singly as an act or in general as an habitual practice, from being pleasing to God
Dom Hubert van Zeller, And So To God
01 March 2025
[On the topic of intimate relationships] Two sicks don’t make a well.
Anonymous AA member
02 March 2025
And the Lord, he it is that doth go before thee; he will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed.
Deuteronomy 31:8 (KJV)
03 March 2025
“Please, Aslan! Am I not to know?”
“To know what would have happened, child?” said Aslan. “No. Nobody is ever told that.”
C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian
04 March 2025
The quality of prayer is not measured by emotional satisfaction, by the number of prayers said, by the ability to picture scenes from the Gospels or to meditate on theological mysteries. There is only one test: do you practise it and intend to go on practising it?
Dom Hubert van Zeller, And So To God
05 March 2025
The earth was of many colours: they were fresh, hot and vivid. They made you feel excited; until you saw the Singer himself, and then you forgot everything else.
C. S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew
06 March 2025
If I am suffering from bitterness against the alcoholic, I will cling to the thought that my growth and serenity depend on overcoming my animosity. Unless I free myself from it, I may carry it over into my relations with other people, even those who, in Al-Anon, are trying to help me. “It is not men’s acts which disturb us—but our reaction to them. Take these away, and anger goes. No wrong act of another can bring shame on you.” (Marcus Aurelius)
One Day At A Time In Al-Anon
07 March 2025
Unwissenheit aber erzeugt immer Härte.
Ignorance always generates hardness.
Stefan Zweig
08 March 2025
The obstacles which are put in the way of prayer by the devil are many. The most common excuse for not persevering in prayer takes the form of “I’m no good at it; I have tried and after two minutes I’m distracted and there’s no prayer left.” The aim is not “to be good at” prayer but to give glory to God. No saint has claimed to be good at prayer; every saint has confessed to being bad at it. To have mastered prayer would be to have left out the main part of it which is the continued effort to pray.
Dom Hubert van Zeller, And So To God
09 March 2025
Aslan: But things never happen the same way twice.
C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian
10 March 2025
“Laugh and fear not, creatures. Now that you are no longer dumb and witless, you need not always be grave. For jokes as well as justice come in with speech.”
C. S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew
11 March 2025
Nothing has the power to hurt my feelings and stir up unwholesome emotions in me unless I allow it. I will do what is given me to do. I will do it as well as I can. That will be my inner security against which all outside battering will be powerless. “Labour not as one who is wretched, nor yet as one who would be pitied or admired. Direct yourself to one thing only, to put yourself in motion and to check yourself at all times.” (Marcus Aurelius: Meditations)
One Day At A Time In Al-Anon
12 March 2025
The discouragement [in prayer] which leads to humility and the determination to persevere are of far more value in the sight of God than the kind of prayer which feels all right to the person praying. It can feel all wrong, provided the mind has not deliberately gone off to think of other things, and yet be exactly the kind of prayer which God wants.
Dom Hubert van Zeller, And So To God
13 March 2025
I will concentrate on the things that are my concern—and make sure which really are mine. I will keep hands off the business of others. I will not interfere with the alcoholic’s activities, assume his responsibilities or shield him from the consequences of what he does. “When you are offended at anyone’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. By attending to them, you will forget your anger and learn to live wisely.” (Marcus Aurelius)
One Day At A Time In Al-Anon
14 March 2025
If you aim at nothing you hit nothing.
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
15 March 2025
Peter [talking of Aslan]: We don’t know when he will act. In his time, no doubt, not ours. In the meantime he would like us to do what we can on our own.
C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian
16 March 2025
Prayer was never meant to run smoothly, and even the effort to keep awake while praying is a part of prayer. It is the trying to beat off distractions which for most of us takes up a large part of our prayer time. As discussion is stimulated by opposition, prayer is stimulated by distraction. The mind is brought back to the main issue which, in the case of prayer, is the glory of God.
Dom Hubert van Zeller, And So To God
17 March 2025
If you want to view paradise
Simply look around and view it
Wonka, Pure Imagination
18 March 2025
God’s not going to do my ironing.
Anonymous AA member
19 March 2025
…the purpose of life is not in the far future, nor, as we so often imagine, around the next corner, but the whole of it is here and now, as fully as ever it will be on this planet. It is always a ‘Now’ that is in direct relation to eternity—not a far future; it is always immediate experience of life that matters in the last resort—not historical constructions based on abridged textbooks or imagined visions of some prosperity that is going to be the heir of all the ages.
Herbert Butterfield, God in History
20 March 2025
It is important to acquire early in life the power of reading sense wherever you happen to be.
C. S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy
21 March 2025
To people who say that it has to be vocal prayer or nothing, the best advice to give is to tell them to take the Our Father, a vocal prayer which can be made the material of deep mental prayer, and to make a point of spending twenty minutes on its single recitation. Taking clause by clause and meaning each word of it, the Our Father can occupy the mind and direct all its faculties—intellect, will, imagination, memory, emotions—towards God. By means of praying the Our Father in this contemplative way, the soul can express such aspects of prayer as praise, acceptance, contrition, and petition.
Dom Hubert van Zeller, And So To God
22 March 2025
“Son of Adam,” said the Lion. “There is an evil Witch abroad in my new land of Narnia. Tell these good Beasts how she came here.” A dozen different things that he might say flashed through Digory’s mind, but he had the sense to say nothing except the exact truth.
C. S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew
23 March 2025
God does not concern Himself with success or failure, and neither do I. He blesses effort.
Sister Maurice
24 March 2025
... the person who is wanting to pray but who forgets what he is trying to do does not bring his prayer to a halt. The prayer goes on in virtue of the original intention. Grace sees to this even if the mind is unaware of it. The pilot of a plane does not, from the moment of take-off to the moment of touching down on the strip, have to be saying “I am now flying this plane, I am now flying this plane,” and go on saying it until he lands, believing that if he stopped saying it the plane would drop out of the sky.
Dom Hubert van Zeller, And So To God
25 March 2025
There is very little deliberate wickedness in the world. The stupidity of our selfishness gives much the same results indeed, but in the ethical laboratory it shows a different nature.
H. G. Wells
26 March 2025
To be divested of pain is experienced by the egos in us as painful.
Kenneth Wapnick, Dream Stuff
27 March 2025
The right course for the person praying to take is gently to bring the mind back, when conscious that it has strayed, to the original intention of raising his mind and heart to God and leaving it in that spiritual stratosphere for as long as God holds it there or when the time for prayer is up.
Dom Hubert van Zeller, And So To God
28 March 2025
“Son,” said Aslan to the Cabby. “I have known you long. Do you know me?” “Well, no, sir,” said the Cabby. “Leastways, not in an ordinary manner of speaking. Yet I feel somehow, if I may make so free, as ‘ow we’ve met before.” “It is well,” said the Lion. “You know better than you think you know, and you shall live to know me better yet. [...]”
C. S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew
29 March 2025
“When the time for prayer is up.” This raises another question—not closing one’s prayer as though closing a book but trying to remain in God’s presence when the actual set period is over. Since prayer is acting on an awareness of God present to the soul, then the awareness which is heightened during the set time of prayer may be carried on during the rest of the day.
Dom Hubert van Zeller, And So To God
30 March 2025
Upon this, said I, “I perceive, Raphael, that you neither desire wealth nor greatness; and, indeed, I value and admire such a man much more than I do any of the great men in the world. ...”
Utopia, Thomas More
31 March 2025
Das sicherste Maß jeder Kraft ist der Widerstand, den sie überwindet.
The surest measure of any power is the resistance it overcomes.
Stefan Zweig, Die Heilung durch den Geist. Mesmer, Mary Baker-Eddy, Freud
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