Blue Journal December 14, 2000
“What pure praise of the Father is love; to feel abandoned and yet stay content before him, saying: ‘Father, into your hands . . .'” (Sr. Wendy Beckett)
Category: the blue journal
What steals Christ’s Heart
December 8, 2000
Our Lord once said to St. Gertrude: “The firm confidence a person has in Me, believing that I truly can help him at all times and desire to do so, steals My Heart and does such violence to Me, that I cannot but favor such a soul because of the great pleasure I experience in seeing it so dependent upon Me and in order to satisfy the great love I have for it.”
Making good of all wrongs
December 6, 2000
“. . . our blessed Lord . . . showing me that the greatest wrong ever done was Adam’s sin . . . The meaning of our blessed Lord was this, ‘Since I have now made the greatest wrong good, I want you to know by this that I shall make good all wrongs of whatever degree.'” (Julian of Norwich)
The soul of the wounded
November 29, 2000
“‘The soul of the wounded calleth for help, and God does not regard it as foolish.’ Whatever the wounding be, however trivial it may appear, so that the soul would be ashamed to tell its inward distress, from whatever side the wind of unstableness blows, the soul of the wounded may call for help, and God will not regard it as foolish.” (Amy Carmichael)
Pleasing God
November 29, 2000
“God showed me too the pleasure it gives him when a simple soul comes to him, openly, sincerely and genuinely.” (Julian of Norwich)
Alike in weal and woe
November 29, 2000
“The will of God is that we should know he keeps us safely, alike in ‘weal or woe.’ . . . Both are equally his love.” (Julian of Norwich)
When that moment comes
November 29, 2000
“Have we not often been like George Tankervil? We have imagined what was coming, and perhaps tested our constancy by some fire of our own kindling, and faith and courage have suddenly collapsed. For grace to endure and to conquer is never given till the moment of need, but when that moment comes? O Savior, who dost not forget Thy Calvary, hast Thou ever failed the soul that trusted Thee? Never, never. By the merits of Thy Blood all is well, all shall be well.” (Amy Carmichael)
True valor
November 25, 2000
“True valor lies, not in what the world calls success, but in the dogged going on when everything in the man says Stop.” (Amy Carmichael)
A wise master
November 25, 2000
“A wise master never wastes his servant’s time, nor a commander his soldier’s–there is great comfort in that.” (Amy Carmichael)
My blue journal
I have two 600 page journals mostly filled with quotes that have struck me, moved my heart, convicted me, strengthened me. I thought I would start going through the first–the blue one–and just passing them on to you. I hope they serve the same purpose in your lives as they have in mine.
November 25, 2000:
“The pledged word of God to man is no puffball to break at a touch and scatter into dust. It is iron. It is gold, the most malleable of all metals. It is more golden than gold. It abideth imperishable for ever. If we wait till we have clear enough vision to see the expected end before we stay our mind on Him who is our Strength, we shall miss an opportunity that will never come again: we shall never know the blessing of the unoffended. Now is the time to say, ‘My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise,’ even though as we say the words there is no sense of exultation. ‘It is possible to gather gold, where it may be had, with moonlight,’ by which I understand something less helpful than daylight would be in the search and the finding of gold. By moonlight, then, let us gather our gold.” (Amy Carmichael)
Witnesses to Hope 