Category: Spiritual Life
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Surrender
C.S. Lewis once said, “We sit down before a picture in order to have something done to us, not that we may do things with it. The first demand any work of art makes upon us is surrender. Look. Listen. Receive.” It is the painting that tells the story, not the viewer. Imagine someone bringing…
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Recovery of the Divine Likeness
John Wesley wrote a letter in 1734 which included, “I take religion to be, not the bare saying over of so many prayers morning and evening, in public or in private; not anything super added now and then to a careless or worldly life; but a constant ruling habit of the soul; a renewal of…