Wednesday, June 20, 2018

Preferring nothing whatsoever to Christ because he preferred nothing whatsoever to us

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Ultimate source unknown "All Christ did, all he taught, was the will of God. Humility in our daily lives, an unwavering faith, a mo...
Monday, June 18, 2018

"Let me see the pure light; when I am there, I shall be truly a man at last."

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ἄφετέ με καθαρὸν φῶς λαβεῖν·  ἐκεῖ παραγενόμενος ἄνθρωπος ἔσμαι.      St. Ignatius of Antioch, Romans 6, trans. Liturgy of the hours.   ...
Monday, June 11, 2018

If natural and human history is "historically contingent", then faith is "the behavior that is, in the last analysis, alone appropriate to reality."

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     Wolfhart Pannenberg, "Contingency and natural law" (1970), trans. William C. Linss, in Toward a theology of nature:  essays o...
Sunday, June 10, 2018

He had the right perspective on everything else, just not MY cause du jour

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"If [Simon] Leys [(Pierre Ryckmans)] had an Achilles heel, it was his deep-seated Catholicism which in 1995 led him to defend the tradi...

"nothing ages a theological contribution so fast as fashionable 'relevance'."

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University of Oxford      James Orr, "Morality of love:  the common sense of Christian communication," a review of Oliver O...
Saturday, June 2, 2018

"a sort of fundamental implausibility"

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Adrian Scarborough (The BBC)      "It would be a travesty to say that Guy suspected Apthorpe of lying.  His claims to distinction—p...
Saturday, May 26, 2018

"Wherever you are on earth, however long you remain on earth, the Lord is near, do not be anxious about anything."

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"So, brethren, rejoice in the Lord, not in the world.  That is, rejoice in the truth, not in wickedness; rejoice in the hope of eterni...