Don't Get Caught Up in Your Thoughts
“…Cast aside regret and fear to do the deed at hand. …thought lives in the past of regrets and in the future of fears; whereas choice and action live in the present of the deed at hand. Almost never is our moral problem knowing what to do. Almost always, it is doing it. William Law says, in A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life, ‘If you will be utterly honest with yourself, you must confess that there is one and only one reason why you are not as saintly as the primitive Christians, the martyrs. You do not wholly want to be.’
We rightly want to look before we leap physically. But, we must leap before we look spiritually. Isaiah says, ‘If you do not believe, you will not understand.’ Faith and the works of love cannot wait for knowledge. Knowledge must wait for them. We cannot see God or the good before we are pure of heart because the heart is the very eye with which we see God.”
~Peter Kreeft
(this was typed from a lecture – any grammatical errors are mine)
We rightly want to look before we leap physically. But, we must leap before we look spiritually. Isaiah says, ‘If you do not believe, you will not understand.’ Faith and the works of love cannot wait for knowledge. Knowledge must wait for them. We cannot see God or the good before we are pure of heart because the heart is the very eye with which we see God.”
~Peter Kreeft
(this was typed from a lecture – any grammatical errors are mine)
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