11 Louis Lalleman, Jean-Pierre de Caussade, and Claude De La Colombiere, For God’s Greater Glory: Gems of Jesuit Spirituality , Jean-Pierre Lafouge, ed. (Bloomington, IN: World Wisdom, 2006), p. 71.
1 “Man ‘Angry at God’ Drives Minivan into Church Sanctuary,” Catholic News Agency, February 21, 2008. Additional background information: Hudson Sangree, “Minivan Plows into Church,” Sacramento Bee, February 21, 2008.
2 Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics , 2.9, translated by J.A.K. Thomson, revised by Hugh Tredennick (New York: Penguin Classics, 2004), p. 48.
19 The following narrative is adapted from Helen Roseveare, “Why Does a God of Love Allow Suffering?” (Barrie, Ontario: Woman Alive, n.d.), audiocassette.
20 Quote taken from Noel Piper “Helen Roseveare: Faithful in Loss,” Faithful Women and Their Extraordinary God (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 2005), p. 166. For a concise retelling of Helen’s story, this book is a helpful and inspiring resource.
7 On the three God-given inner needs, see Lawrence J. Crabb, Jr., Understanding People: Deep Longings for Relationship (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1987), pp. 15-16; Robert S. McGee, The Search for Significance , 2d ed. (Houston, TX: Rapha, 1990), pp. 27-30.
2 See Richard W. Etulain, César Chávez (New York: Macmillan, 2002), p. 117.
3 Dan La Botz, César Chávez and La Causa (London: Longman, 2005), p. 7.
4 Peter Matthiessen, Sal si puedes (Escape if you can): César Chávez and the New American Revolution (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2000), p. x.
8 This story was adapted from J. Oswald Sanders, “How Do You Love?” Discipleship Journal , March/April 1981. To learn more about the life of the great hymn writer and poet, see Frances Ridley Havergal: A Full Sketch of Her Life by Edward Davies and Memorials of Frances Ridley Havergal by Maria Vernon Graham Havergal (her sister).
6 Henry Ward Beecher as quoted in Roy B. Zuck, The Speaker’s Quote Book: Over 4,500 Illustrations and Quotations for All Occasions (Grand Rapids: Kregel Publications, 1997), p. 13.