Sunday, January 5, 2025
Sermon on the Mount: Beatitudes, Part 1

A truth that’s told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.
~ William Blake

Reflect, Resonate, Reevaluate, Respond

To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength.
~ Christopher James Gilbert, 1987- , author, philosopher, musician

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
~ Virginia Woolf, 1882–1941, English writer

Matthew 5:1-10

Without transformation, you can assume you’re at a high moral, spiritual level just because you call yourself Lutheran or Methodist or Catholic. I think my great disappointment as a priest has been to see how little actual spiritual curiosity there is in so many people.
~ Richard Rohr, 1943- , Franciscan Priest

You are who you are when nobody’s watching.
~ Stephen Fry, 1957- , media personality, writer

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one’s self to destiny.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte, 1769-1821, military officer, statesman

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
~ Aristotle, 384-322 BC, philosophy and polymath

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