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Henri Matisse, The Violinist at the Window, 1918 - http://quaerere-deum.tumblr.com/post...
Henri Matisse, The Violinist at the Window, 1918
When I arrive here, I always have to force myself not to count, not to measure. I have to accept that things are the way they were. Only then do I again find the path to understanding that the logic by which I judge things is different, it is always another thing, one of the pure gratuity of a presence. Perhaps this is why God has called Francesco... - http://quaerere-deum.tumblr.com/post...
If the laity received salvation sacramentally from the hierarchical Church, they received it spiritually from the monasteries: a connection with the spirituality of the Orders becomes possible and tangible in institutions like ‘Third Orders’ and later in Marian congregations and similar structures” (Balthasar, The Laity and the Life of the... - http://quaerere-deum.tumblr.com/post...
Lancet Windows (detail), Normandy, ca. 1250-1300 - http://quaerere-deum.tumblr.com/post...
Lancet Windows (detail), Normandy, ca. 1250-1300
Be glad then that you are overwhelmed, and do not be saddened because he has overcome you. - http://quaerere-deum.tumblr.com/post...
Silence is the mother of prayer, a return from the captivity of sin, unconscious success in virtue, a continuous ascension to heaven. - http://quaerere-deum.tumblr.com/post...
Franz Marc, Little Oak Tree - http://quaerere-deum.tumblr.com/post...
Franz Marc, Little Oak Tree
I paint very large pictures. I realize that historically the function of painting large pictures is painting something very grandiose and pompous. The reason I paint them, however – I think it applies to other painters I know – is precisely because I want to be very intimate and human. To paint a small picture is to place yourself outside your... - http://quaerere-deum.tumblr.com/post...
Ragnar Axelsson, Iceland series, 1995 - http://quaerere-deum.tumblr.com/post...
Ragnar Axelsson, Iceland series, 1995
Holy Hill Basilica, Presentation in the Temple, stained glass  - http://quaerere-deum.tumblr.com/post...
Holy Hill Basilica, Presentation in the Temple, stained glass 
Nicolas de Stael, Les toits, 1952 - http://quaerere-deum.tumblr.com/post...
Nicolas de Stael, Les toits, 1952
In other words, contemporary liberalism offers religious groups a choice. They can try to serve the widest possible population, in which case a liberal administration will set rules that force them to violate their conscience. Or they can serve a narrower one, in which case liberal journalists will sneer at them (and their most generous... - http://quaerere-deum.tumblr.com/post...
Don’t be Negative (by MTS Digital Media Academy) - http://quaerere-deum.tumblr.com/post...
Don’t be Negative (by MTS Digital Media Academy)
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Frontal d’Esterri de Cardos, 1225 - http://quaerere-deum.tumblr.com/post...
Frontal d’Esterri de Cardos, 1225
Under your mercy we take refuge Mother of God; may our petitions not be abandoned into temptation, but from danger deliver us, only pure & blessed. - http://quaerere-deum.tumblr.com/post...
Bartolomeo Bellano, Virgin and Child with Two Angels, c.1460-70 - http://quaerere-deum.tumblr.com/post...
Bartolomeo Bellano, Virgin and Child with Two Angels, c.1460-70
I never have any difficulty believing in miracles, since I experienced the miracle of a change in my own heart.” St. Augustine - http://quaerere-deum.tumblr.com/post...
For the holy Fathers assure us likewise, that if with faith and right intention one questions even a Saracen, such a one can speak words of value to us. If, on the other hand, one asks for instruction from a Prophet, without faith and a righteous purpose, then even the Prophet will not satisfy us. - http://quaerere-deum.tumblr.com/post...
CSLewisDaily: Nations, cultures, civilization—these are mortal. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, & exploit Original Tweet: http://twitter.com/CSLewis... Sent via TweetDeck (www.tweetdeck.com) - http://quaerere-deum.tumblr.com/post...
A Christian priest, Bassilius Nassar, was killed yesterday in Syria while he was giving first aid to a wounded man near Hama. - http://quaerere-deum.tumblr.com/post...
Tonight snow-haze, moonlight. The moonlight jellyfish itself is floating before us. Our smiles on the way home. Bewitched avenue. - http://quaerere-deum.tumblr.com/post...
Etsuro Sotoo, the sculptor who became Catholic thanks to Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia (by romereports) - http://quaerere-deum.tumblr.com/post...
Panhandle in Fog, San Francisco - http://quaerere-deum.tumblr.com/post...
Panhandle in Fog, San Francisco
It is here that each of us needs to recognize which companionship allows him to face reality, to face any darkness … only one who has already entered that darkness is not afraid of it. —Julian Carron, 12/14/11 - http://quaerere-deum.tumblr.com/post...
You are all sons of light and sons of the day: we do not belong to the night or to darkness. —1 Thes 5:5 - http://quaerere-deum.tumblr.com/post...
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