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The gospel of a God found in broken flesh, humility, and measureless charity has defeated all the old lies, rendered the ancient order visibly insufficient…

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Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience.
The reason the very concept of God has become at once so impoverished, so thoroughly mythical, and ultimately so incredible for so…
I can honestly say that there are many forms of atheism that I find far more admirable than many forms of Christianity…
Christians, indeed, have a special obligation not to forget how great and how inextinguishable the human proclivity for violence is, or how…
Empiricism in the sciences is a method; naturalism in philosophy is a metaphysics; and the latter neither follows from nor underlies the…
God's love, and hence the love with which we come to love God, is eros and agape at once: a desire for…
Lest we forget, the birth of modern physics and cosmology was achieved by Galileo, Kepler and Newton breaking free not from the…
Christians, for instance, are not, properly speaking, believers in religion; rather, they believe that Jesus of Nazareth, crucified under Pontius Pilate, rose…
But, in fact, materialism is among the most problematic of philosophical standpoints, the most impoverished in its explanatory range, and among the…
Christ is a persuasion, a form evoking desire, and the whole force of the gospel depends upon the assumption that this persuasion…
For, after all, if it is from Christ that we are to learn how God relates himself to sin, suffering, evil, and…
The world is unable to provide any account of its own actuality, and yet there it is all the same.

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Lord of the springtime, Father of flower, field and fruit, smile on us in these earnest days when the work is heavy… — W. E. B. Du Bois
Sweet Spirit, grant us the faith to resist our resistance to Thee! — James Melvin Washington
O God, make us desperate, and grant us faith and boldness to approach Your throne and make our petitions known, knowing that… — Nancy Leigh DeMoss
We should strive to keep our hearts open to the sufferings and wretchedness of other people, and pray continually that God may… — Vincent de Paul
Grant us peace, Almighty Father, so to pray as to deserve to be heard. — Jane Austen
Grant us brotherhood, not only for this day but for all our years - a brotherhood not of words but of acts… — Stephen Vincent Benet
Christianity is not a new philosophy or new morality. We are Christians only if we encounter Christ... Only in this personal relationship… — Pope Benedict XVI
Alone thou goest forth, O Lord, in sacrifice to die; is this thy sorrow naught to us who pass unheeding by? Our… — Peter Abelard
As long as the problems of the poor are not radically resolved by rejecting the absolute autonomy of markets and financial speculation… — Pope Francis
This is my prayer for all of us—'Lord, increase our faith.' Increase our faith to bridge the chasms of uncertainty and doubt.… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Grant us a common faith that we shall know bread and peace-that we shall know justice and righteousness, freedom and security, an… — Stephen Vincent Benet
Grant us the wil1 to fashion as we feel, Grant us the strength to labor as we know, Grant us the purpose,… — John Drinkwater

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