Spiritual Friend

Framsida
Paulist Press, 1980 - 264 sidor
Giving spiritual direction and preparing to become a spiritual director are characterized in terms of the preparation, qualities, and practical considerations necessary for guiding fellow Christians.

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The Spiritual Sea in Which We Swim Today
13
Living Waters of the Past
35
The Eternal Rhythm
69
The Many Colored Coat of Spiritual Guidance
90
FOREGROUND
103
Seeking a Spiritual Friend
105
Being a Spiritual Friend
125
Group Direction
174
Bringing It All Together A Program for Spiritual Directors
194
Notes
233
Bibliography
261
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Sida 73 - Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. 'Six days you shall labor, and do all your work; '"but the seventh day is a sabbath to the LORD your God; in it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your manservant, or your maidservant, or your cattle, or the sojourner who is within your gates...
Sida 91 - The wind blows where it chooses, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.
Sida 40 - Ye did not choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that ye should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should abide: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
Sida 40 - You did not choose Me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit...
Sida 73 - ... for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day and hallowed it.
Sida 165 - I believe that by openness to Buddhism, to Hinduism, and to these great Asian traditions, we stand a wonderful chance of learning more about the potentiality of our own traditions, because they have gone, from the natural point of view, so much deeper into this than we have.
Sida 7 - Christ likes us to prefer truth to him because, before being Christ, he is truth. If one turns aside from him to go toward the truth, one will not go far before falling into his arms.
Sida 88 - ... activism and overwork. The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of its innate violence. To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything is to succumb to violence.
Sida 13 - And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?

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