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- Someone once said that if you sat a million monkeys at a million typewriters for a million years, one of them would eventually type out…
- God calls us, just as he called Abraham, away from the security we knew, out of our old, familiar, little room, down the ladder of…
- A saint is Christ's bride, totally attached, faithful, dependent. A saint is also totally independent, detached from idols and from other husbands... A saint is…
- The church is: a conspiracy of love for a dying world, a spy mission into enemy occupied territory ruled by the powers of evil; a…
- Feelings come to us, passively; love comes from us, actively, by our free choice.
- Mary's light is like that of the moon, totally reflected from the sun, the Son of God.
- God is not pre or post anything. He is present to everything. ... There is not predestination but destination, not predestiny but destiny. This follows…
- God's love is as objective as light. Because the sun in a sense is light, or the source of light rather than being lit, it…
- God is love. Wraith is how His love appears to us when we sin or rebel or run away from Him. The very light that…
- Sin comes from not realizing God's love. Sin comes from thinking ourselves only as sinners, while overcoming sin comes from thinking ourselves as overcomers. We…
- It is the modern feminists who are the real male chauvinists, lusting for reproductive freedom (sexual irresponsibility) like playboys and demanding empowerment, that is, envying…
- This is the reason why it is crucial to distinguish anger from hatred. There is a kind of anger (nonsinful kind) which...is in God himself,…
- We modern egalitarians are tempted to the primal sin of pride in the opposite way from the ancients. The old, aristocratic form of pride was…
- Christ transforms the meaning and value of suffering from something to be feared or at best endured into something redemptive [and transformative].
- We are all insane. That is what original sin means. Sin is insanity. It is preferring finite joy to infinite joy, creatures to the Creator,…
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