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Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. It has fed our thirst for facts but not for meaning or mystery. It produces "nice" people, not heroes. ↗
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Charity is the power of defending that which we know to be indefensible. Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate. It is true that there is a state of hope which belongs to bright prospects and the morning; but that is not the virtue of hope. The virtue of hope exists only in earthquake and eclipse. It is true that there is a thing crudely called charity, which means charity to the deserving poor; but charity to the deserving is not charity at all, but justice. It is the undeserving who require it, and the ideal either does not exist at all, or exists wholly for them. For practical purposes it is at the hopeless moment that we require the hopeful man, and the virtue either does not exist at all, or begins to exist at that moment. Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful. ↗
It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can make a detour around it. ↗
He was alone in his wonderment, amoung creatures incapable of wonder --for them it was enough to exist and go their way. ↗
Protestants believe that the sacraments are like ladders that God gave to us by which we can climb up to Him. Catholics believe that they are like ladders that God gave to Himself by which He climbs down to us. ↗
It is closer to the truth to say that God is crazy than that God is reasonable. I suspect God merely smiles when someone calls him crazy, but shakes His head and frowns when someone calls Him reasonable. ↗
Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence of God. ↗
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Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons. ↗
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God defines himself as "I am who I am", which also means: My being is such that I shall always be present in every moment of becoming. ↗
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