She is one of my favorite saints!

Definitely my favorite saint

Great advice sharing Elizabeth thank you, God bless you 🙏

@BiblicalBookworm

4 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful, have a blessed Sunday Mr. Alvarez!

@pepetono72

4 ай бұрын

@@BiblicalBookworm Thank you Elizabeth you too have a blessed Sunday.

Thank you my sister for your videos they are very informative I have some of these books and look forward to reading them, I'm glad I came across your channel. May GOD'S peace be upon you.

@BiblicalBookworm

5 ай бұрын

You're welcome! God bless you!

Your videos are amazing!! Hugs from Brazil 🇧🇷

@BiblicalBookworm

5 ай бұрын

Thank you, I'm glad you like them!

Its always a joy to watch your videos, keep it up Elisabeth! Good job! And I forgot who said this quote but it helped me greatly "Jesus Christ sacrificed His perfect life not to free us from suffering but to transform suffering into the currency of redemption." It was one of the things that led to my conversion into Catholicism. God bless you!

@BiblicalBookworm

6 ай бұрын

Thank you! I'm happy my videos are helpful. And thanks for sharing this beautiful quote! God bless you too!

Very good topic , a strong man or women do not complain or blame they just accept what ever life throws at them with a heart of love for God. 😊very hard to do when everything seens to be breaking you down but turn the other cheek and it will get better we pray

@BiblicalBookworm

6 ай бұрын

May we all meet that description one day 🙏

@changedlife1904

6 ай бұрын

​@@BiblicalBookwormyes indeed very hard !!

I think happiness can be measured in imagination. I value it.

She together with Therese of Lisieux are the best religious books I’ve read beside the Bible

i just discovered your channel and i love it

@BiblicalBookworm

6 ай бұрын

Welcome to my channel! 😊

Thank you so much for the video

@BiblicalBookworm

6 ай бұрын

You're welcome!

Thank you for this video.

@BiblicalBookworm

6 ай бұрын

You're welcome!

You give a wonderful summary at the end Elisabeth! I wonder if another way of looking at detachment is God separating us from the idols in our lives? Things like money, power, prestige can have a strong hold on us and can become a source of focus for us rather than a focus on God. Anyway these are just some thoughts. Once again thank you for all that you do! God bless you! 🙏

@BiblicalBookworm

6 ай бұрын

That's a beautiful perspective on detachment. Thank you for sharing!

@user-se8nj6ow9y

6 ай бұрын

You are more than welcome!@@BiblicalBookworm

"Striving for Happiness" to me, always sounds like "Fighting for Peace"...an oxymoron. Ever tried to get someone or an animal to like you? They seem to do the opposite, that is, move away or worse, get annoyed with you. Ever done the opposite and ignored them? You somehow become attractable. It's a weird paradox, but it has been talked about in psychology for a while now that "happiness" is a by-product and arrives in it's own good time when you let go of attachment and wanting things to be a certain way.

@BiblicalBookworm

2 ай бұрын

I agree! Thank you for sharing your thoughts!

I don’t know if you’ve read him but I highly recommend you read some works by Fyodor Dostoevsky, particularly his work Crime and Punishment.

@BiblicalBookworm

6 ай бұрын

Thank you for the recommendation! The thing is that I only read non-fiction books

Thank you for this! I still haven’t finished Interior Castle. I find your videos very helpful for when I do read this one. Also did you know in Buddhist practice they also believe in detachment because of almost the same reasoning? It really does help and is timeless advice.

@BiblicalBookworm

6 ай бұрын

I didn't know! Thanks for sharing!

@billie5057

6 ай бұрын

I thought Buddhism was talking about detachment from all things and all desires. As to where Catholicism is detachment from sin and to increase desire for holiness. Or to "rightly order your desires to God." But, I don't know much about Buddhism, what do you think?

@jacksonhamilton6302

6 ай бұрын

The place where Buddhism and Christianity differ is where Saint Teresa talks about accepting poverty and, more importantly, why. Buddhism teaches the middle-way and detachment which is, in practice, equally ascetic, but philosophically does not see the virtue in humility and meekness as an end in and of itself. Rather, Buddhism sees humility and meekness as means to the end of abolishing suffering. The virtues, in Buddhism, are only utilities to abolish suffering and posses no inherent value on their own. The ultimate end of Buddhism is Nirvana where the individual ceases to exist and therefore can possess no virtues or personality traits as opposed to Christianity where the individual continues to exist and therefore may possess virtues. So, Buddhism believes in the contentment part but contentment is merely a means to dissolve oneself into nothingness. The less attached one is to the world; partly through stoic contentment, the more one is capable of the spiritual suicide that is Nirvana. Yet, Christianity wants us to be virtuous and noble servants of God. That ultimately these traits make us loving, kind, and perfect. Buddhism has basically no regard for the character of the individual and also sees the primary and overwhelming condition of life as suffering which is apparently so bad, nothing can justify enduring suffering in the ultimate. Not love, not beauty, not friendship, not art, nothing. This is, in large part, why I am not a Buddhist and after being spiritual-but-not-religious and flirting with Buddhism, I came back to Christianity.@@billie5057

@billie5057

6 ай бұрын

@@jacksonhamilton6302 Wow! Thanks for the run down!

He who best knoweth how to suffer shall possess the most peace; that man is the conqueror of himself and lord of the world, the friend of Christ, and the inheritor of heaven. Thomas Kempis

@BiblicalBookworm

6 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing!

I am very sorry to ask. Where did you get your necklace? Thank you.

@BiblicalBookworm

6 ай бұрын

No need to be sorry. I think it's from amazon. I got it from my parents when I graduated high school.

@El-Rad

6 ай бұрын

When did that happen last week? You look so youthful ❤️

If we have to suffer , we will suffer well.

@BiblicalBookworm

6 ай бұрын

🙏

Personal stance is to strive for the joy of Lord , not the peace that the world gives. It's not all lollipops and unicorns ...

@BiblicalBookworm

6 ай бұрын

Amen!