Christian Classics

GOD WITH US

“We are torn out of our own existence and set down in the midst of the holy history of God on earth… It is not that God is the spectator and sharer of our present life, however important that is; but rather that we are the reverent listeners and participants in God’s action in the […]

POINTERS TO GOD

“Everything that [the human being] and the world is bears traces of God, but, in the end, it never manifests him. There is a certain similarity, but it dissolves in an ever-greater dissimilarity. Everything points to God, but he is the Wholly Other, the Unknown…. It will be either the expression of the creature’s continued […]

BIBLE AND THE GREEKS

“Europe, then, is the Bible and the Greeks. It has come closer to the Bible and has come into its own destiny. It takes in everything else in the world. I have no nostalgia for the exotic. For me, Europe is central. I always say-but under my breath-that the Bible and the Greeks present the […]

Human Wretchedness

“The recognition of human wretchedness is difûcult for whoever is rich and powerful because he is almost invincibly led to believe that he is something. It is equally difûcult for the man in miserable circumstances because he is almost invincibly led to believe that the rich and powerful man is something.” Simon Weil

MEANING’S HOMECOMING FESTIVAL

“There is neither a first nor last word and there are no limits to the dialogic context (it extends into the boundless past and the boundless future). Even past meanings, that is, those born in the dialogue of past centuries, can never be stable (finalized, ended once and for all) – they will always change […]

Listen To Pain

“I listen to the pain… Pain as the proof of past life. There are no other proofs, I don’t trust other proofs. Words have more than once led us away from the truth. I think of suffering as the highest form of information, having a direct connection with misery. With the misery of life. All […]

Sermon in the Church

“Luther says some-where in one of his sermons that properly sermons should not be preached in churches. This he said in a sermon, which surely was delivered in a church, so that he did not say it seriously. But it is true that sermons should not be preached in churches. It harms Christianity in a […]

The Other Whom I Have Oppressed

“My being-in-the-world or my ‘place in the sun,’ my being at home, have these not also been the usurpation of spaces belonging to the other man whom I have already oppressed or starved, or driven out into a third world; are they not acts of repulsing, excluding, exiling, stripping, killing?” E. Levinas

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