Richard Coles (ex keyboard player of the Communards and now Church of England Priest) said in the Observer on Sunday re: Advent:-

‘its darkness and austerity rescues Christmas from the sentimentality and commercialism into which it can so …

(I have this stored – I think it is from http://jonnybaker.blogs.com/jonnybaker/)

I have had this stored for months now. It’s part of a Sunday sermon. And today is Sunday (and if you need to read blogs to establish that …

It’s Thomas Merton again….being a politics graduate I pride myself on my use of secondary sources, without reading the original. Being a theology graduate (did you notice the subtle ‘I am very brainy’ thing going on there?) I …

The shortest quote in this series:-

‘Humility consists in being precisely the person you actually are before God’.

By Thomas Merton

I remember a phrase that I heard a few years ago that is a variation on this. It goes …

I love this quote so much that I am not sure if I have posted it before. Give me anything by Kierkegaard as well…

‘The matter is quite simple. The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are …