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Just read in Christianity Today a critic of Eckhart Tolle’s theology.

Oprah Winfrey is promoting the German-born author and his latest work, A New Earth.

 

To read the critic, go to: http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2008/august/12.50.html

 

Here is an excerpt:

 

To his credit, Tolle is quite good at recognizing human folly, which is significant given New Age tendencies to deny evil outright. A New Earth states, "If the history of humanity were the clinical case history of a single human being, the diagnosis would have to be: chronic paranoid delusions, a pathological propensity to commit murder, and acts of extreme violence and cruelty."

 

(Traduction libre)

"Si l'histoire de l'humanité était l’histoire du cas clinique d'un seul être humain, le diagnostic devrait être : délire paranoïaque chronique, une propension pathologique à commettre des meurtres, et des actes de violence et de cruauté extrêmes."

 

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Good Stuff - This from Jim Spinks.
The next time you feel like God can't use you, just remember...
* Noah was a drunk
* Abraham was too old
* Isaac was a daydreamer
* Jacob was a liar
* Leah was ugly
* Joseph was abused
* Moses had a stuttering problem
* Gideon was afraid
* Samson had long hair and was a womanizer
* Rahab was a harlot
* Jeremiah and Timothy were too young
* David had an affair and was a murderer
* Elijah was suicidal
* Isaiah preached naked
* Jonah ran from God
* Naomi was a widow
* Job went bankrupt
* Peter denied Christ
* The Disciples fell asleep while praying
* Martha worried about everything
* The Samaritan woman was divorced, more than once
* Zaccheus was too small
* Paul had a "thorn in the flesh"
* Timothy had an ulcer
* Lazarus was dead
Now! No more excuses! God can use you to your full potential.

 

 

 

REFLECTIONS
The Human Condition

Quotations to stir heart and mind.

Compiled by Richard A. Kauffman | posted 7/17/2008 08:49AM

http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2008/july/22.46.html

I HAVE DISCOVERED that all the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.
Blaise Pascal, Pensées

IT IS NO EASY TASK to walk this earth and find peace. Inside of us, it would seem, something is at odds with the very rhythm of things and we are forever restless, dissatisfied, frustrated, and aching. We are so overcharged with desire that it is hard to come to simple rest. Desire is always stronger than satisfaction.
Ronald Rolheiser, The Holy Longing

ONE OF the uncomfortable facts about ourselves is that we all must live in a way that meets our own approval.
Paul Holmer, Making Christian Sense

DOES DISCOVERING who you are awaken a kind of inner unrest? … If you started accusing yourself of all that is in you, would your nights and days be long enough?
Brother Roger of Taizé, Essential Writings

ONE OF the strangest things that people say is, "I'm a good person." I am always amazed when people claim to know that about themselves. … History demonstrates, repeatedly, that if enough people begin to define themselves as "good" in contrast to others who are "bad," those others come to be seen as less than human.
Kathleen Norris, Amazing Grace

THE POWER of temptation is not in its appeal to our baser instincts; if that were the case, it would be natural to be repulsed by it. The power of temptation is in its appeal to our idealism.
Helmut Thielicke, Our Heavenly Father

THE EVIL WROUGHT by those who intend evil is negligible. The greater evil is wrought by those who intend good, and are convinced they know how to bring it about; and the greater their power to bring it about, the greater the evil they achieve while trying to do it.
Allen Wheelis, The Way We Are

TO TRIUMPH FULLY evil needs two victories, not one. The first victory happens when an evil deed is perpetrated; the second victory, when evil is returned. After the first victory, evil would die if the second victory did not infuse it with new life.
Miroslav Volf, The End of Memory

PERFECT LOVE may cast out fear, but fear is remarkably potent in casting out love.
P. D. James, Time to Be in Earnest

SATAN DOES NOT here fill us with hatred of God, but with forgetfulness of God.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Creation and Fall/Temptation

 

 

 

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CYBERPRESSE - Le jeudi 17 juillet 2008

Un p'tit gars comme moi...

 

 

 

 

 

     L'argent peut acheter le plaisir... mais pas l'amour;
 
     On peut acheter un spectacle....... mais pas la joie;
    
     On peut acheter un esclave......... mais pas un ami;
 
     On peut acheter une femme.......... mais pas une épouse;
 
     On peut acheter une maison......... mais pas un foyer;
 
     On peut acheter des aliments....... mais pas l'appétit;
 
     On peut acheter des médicaments.... mais pas la santé;
 
     On peut acheter des diplômes....... mais pas la culture;

     On peut acheter des gardes du corps mais pas la sécurité;
 
     On peut acheter des livres......... mais pas l'intelligence;
 
     On peut acheter des tranquillisants mais pas la paix;
 
     On peut acheter des indulgences.... mais pas le pardon;
 
     On peut acheter la terre........... mais pas le ciel.
 
 
     "Il ne faut pas regretter ce que vous ne pouvez pas réparer"
  Samuel Johnson
 
     "Le progrès est impossible sans changement, et ceux qui ne peuvent
  jamais changer d'avis ne peuvent ni changer le monde ni se changer
  eux-mêmes."
  George Bernard Shaw

 

 

 

* A True Angel has Died *

 

http://www.52best.com/Irena.asp

 

It is said that History is "his story." That our past is not a string of events, but a string of people from whose shoulders we have grown to where we are today. Well, it is "her story" as well. Read this story about a woman who enabled 2,500 people to grow their lives rather than perish in Hitler's carnage.

Irena Sendler, who was only a social worker in Warsaw when the Germans occupied Poland in 1939, was the woman who single-handedly rescued over 2,500 Jewish children from the infamous Warsaw Ghetto. She would literally talk parents into trusting her with their most prized possessions on earth before the Nazi war machine could kill them.

Then, because she could move in and out of the Ghetto several times a day under the guise of providing humanitarian aid, she would smuggle the children out so they could be "adopted" by Polish families until the war was over. She and her underground provided new names and identities for the Jewish children and only Irena knew their whereabouts.

She would carefully write the names on cigarette papers, both the real name and the aliases, with the idea of reuniting the families when the horrors would end, and she kept the names in some jars that were carefully buried in a nearby garden.

She was ingenious in her methods. She even trained a dog to bark so it would stifle the cries of a scared child when they passed a German checkpoint. She used the city sewers, underground tunnels and all sorts of routes to spirit the children to safety.

Eventually she was caught and brutally tortured, but, when the Germans found there was no way to break her, she was taken to be killed. The underground paid a huge bribe, and her life was miraculously spared by a guard who knocked her unconscious, threw her from a truck, and later said he had shot her.

She then lived in secrecy, daring not even attend her mother's funeral, until the end of the war and then she dug up the jars and reunited the children with their families. Many of the parents had died in the concentration camps and gas chambers, but Irena Sendler got almost all of them back to extended members of families, so great was her personal vow.

Curiously most have never heard her story, about how she was never again able to walk without crutches after the way the German torturers had crushed her feet and legs, and maybe her own disdain at being hailed as a hero was the reason.

"Every Jewish child who survived due to my efforts has justified my existence on this earth, but it is no cause for praise," she once said.

"We who were rescuing children are not some kind of heroes. That term irritates me greatly. The opposite is true. I continue to have qualms of conscience that I did so little . . this regret will follow me to my death."

In recent years, as many of the children she saved began to speak out, she couldn't overwhelm her legend.

Irena Sendler was awarded the Order of the White Eagle, the country of Poland's highest decoration and . . she was a runner-up for last year's Nobel Peace Prize before she died quietly on May 10, 2008, of pneumonia at the age of 98.

             ~ The Author is Roy Exum from Chattanooga, Tennessee, whose articles and stories have been featured and shared in both the local and national media  ~