I love you, Oh Lord, my strength. …my God, my rock in whom I take refuge, my shield.

– Ps 18:1-2

All arts and sciences, the more they are perfected, the more they issue in divinity, and coincide with it, and appear to be parts of it.

Jonathan Edwards

Come unto me, all you who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.

– Matthew 11:28

Human development involves “accepting the self I am as a gift and the self I should become as a task God has set for me.”

C. Stephen Evans on Soren Kierkegaard

“Martha, Martha, you are worried and distracted by many things; there is need of only one thing. Mary has chosen the better part, which will not be taken away from her.”

– Luke 10:41-42

Mainstream therapeutic psychology “has become a religion: a secular cult of the self.”

Paul C. Vitz, Professor of Psychology, Divine Mercy University

But while his son was still far off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion, and ran and put his arms around him and kissed him.

– The parable of the prodigal son

The heart has reasons that reason does not know.

– Blaise Pascal, Pensées

Cast all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you.

– 1 Peter 5:7

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