One night the master had heard what he could only assume was the voice of God offering him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor if he would but bow down and worship him. He did not need to be asked twice. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
The master seldom worried about the future. If anything happened to him he would release his army of trained interns loose upon the world. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
The legendary actor, 007 Sean Connery, has past on to even greener fairways. He was quite a guy, and a tough character. I was having a very hard time getting approvals for a big development in Scotland when Sean stepped in and shouted,“Let him build the damn thing”. That was....
The master had invited the District Commissioner, famous entertainers, and all the local gentry to his special Celebration of Greatness. But the mail was notoriously unreliable. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
“Hunger, hunger, hunger! That’s all the fake socialists and their nihilist allies want to talk about,” said the master. “You get hungry, you eat, you’re fine,” he said. Last night, for example, he was feeling hungry, and then the chef served Chicken Kiev!#TolstoysTalesofTrump
Louis Massignon, who devoted his life to dialogue between Xty and Islam, died 10/31/1962. A Franciscan tertiary, he took the name Ibrahim and made a vow to offer his life for the Muslims—“not so they would be converted, but so the will of God might be accomplished thru them.”
A follower of both Gandhi and Charles de Foucauld, he believed in each person there is a *point vierge* where God alone may enter. “Man is not made for works of external mercy, but first of all to worship the divine Guest in his heart, in the present moment.”#RejectIslamophobia
I remember when theologians like Leonardo Boff, Jacques Dupuis, Jon Sobrino, Margaret Farley, Elizabeth Johnson, were reproved, silenced, or harassed for supposedly “scandalizing the faithful.” But apparently if you are an Archbishop they let you do it. You can do anything.