Priest: ‘I think I’ve lost my faith.’Even a blog writer winds up with snippets around. Mine are on note cards, jotted in my so-called journal which is really mostly cryptic notes and lists of what I'm reading at the moment. And, of course, quote journals. Lots and lots of quote journals.
Cardinal Cushing: ‘Don’t flatter yourself; you’re just bored.’ --Sermon
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We are not meant to ’succeed’ at Lent, but to fail and know our dependence upon Grace.
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Know-it-all-son: I don’t pray; I don’t need to because God knows all.”
Me: But even Jesus prayed…
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I sent Cardinal Cushing's comment to our priest and he responded that he had heard it years ago but a bit better and perhaps a bit kinder. That made me go to Google, where I found this version, which was the one he remembered.
Cardinal Cushing had an interview with a young priest who said to him, 'Your Eminence, I am losing my faith.' The Cardinal said to him, 'Meaning no disrespect to your intellectual attainments, but you and I are too dumb to lose our faith. The great heretics like Martin Luther lose their faith. You and I just get bored!'
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