I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare.
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If we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desire not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, we are like ignorant children who want to continue making mud pies in a slum because we cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a vacation at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.C.S. Lewis
God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.
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The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life -- the life God is sending one day by day.
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All that we call human history--money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery--is the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.
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When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the religion of amulets and holy places and priestcraft Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of ethical platitudes
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The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.
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