This Sunday’s readings: Mark 10:17-27

Reflections

The falseness of your own hearts, if you look not to them, may undo you.
~ Richard Baxter, 1615-1691, Pastor/Author, The Saints’ Everlasting Rest

To be found is to be exposed. No wonder so many of us are still lost.
~ Craig D. Lounsbrough, Counselor/Author

Love is the very difficult understanding that something other than yourself is real.
~ Iris Murdoch, 1919-1999, Anglo-Irish novelist

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
~ W. C. Fields, 1880-1946

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…what the heart loves, the will chooses, and the mind justifies. The mind doesn’t direct the will. The mind is actually captive to what the will wants, and the will itself, in turn, is captive to what the heart wants.
~ Rev. Dr. Ashley Null, Anglican scholar

Nothing can be more cruel than the leniency which abandons others to their sin. Nothing can be more compassionate than the severe reprimand which calls another Christian in one’s community back from the path of sin.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Exploration of Christian Community

Human beings never think for themselves; they find it too uncomfortable. For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told — and become upset if they are exposed to any different view.
~ Michael Crichton