by TheRestlessPilgrim | Oct 31, 2020 | 72 Days Pilgrim Challenge, Blog
“There can be no doubt that this possessive clinging to things is one of the most harmful habits in the life. Because it is so natural it is rarely recognized for the evil that it is; but its outworkings are tragic. We are often hindered from giving up our treasures...
by TheRestlessPilgrim | Oct 30, 2020 | 72 Days Pilgrim Challenge, Blog
“These blessed poor are no longer slaves to the tyranny of things. They have broken the yoke of the oppressor; and this they have done not by fighting but by surrendering. Though free from all sense of possessing, they yet possess all things. ‘Theirs is the kingdom of...
by TheRestlessPilgrim | Oct 29, 2020 | 72 Days Pilgrim Challenge, Blog
“The way to deeper knowledge of God is through the lonely valleys of soul poverty and abnegation of all things. The blessed ones who possess the Kingdom are they who have repudiated every external thing and have rooted from their hearts all sense of possessing. These...
by TheRestlessPilgrim | Oct 28, 2020 | 72 Days Pilgrim Challenge, Blog
“The roots of our hearts have grown down into things, and we dare not pull up one rootlet lest we die. Things have become necessary to us, a development never originally intended. God’s gifts now take the place of God, and the whole course of nature is upset by the...
by TheRestlessPilgrim | Oct 27, 2020 | 72 Days Pilgrim Challenge, Blog
“There is within the human heart a tough fibrous root of fallen life whose nature is to possess, always to possess. It covets ‘things’ with a deep and fierce passion. The pronouns ‘my’ and ‘mine’ look innocent enough in print, but their constant and universal use is...
