Christian Classics

My Mission

“God has created me to do Him some definite service. He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission. I may never know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next. I am a link in a chain, a bond of […]

Diminution of Personality

“We overlook the essential fact that the social goal is attained only at the cost of a diminution of personality. Many — far too many — aspects of life which should also have been experienced lie in the lumber-room among dusty memories; but sometimes, too, they are glowing coals under grey ashes.” Karl Jung

Creation of Signification

The ‘naked truth’ is not what life can live with; for, let us not forget, this life is the result of a long history of complete congruence between man’s environment and ‘signification’ – congruence that is only shattered in its most recent phase. In this history life itself continually deprives itself of an immediate relation […]

Shrink From Love

“What shall it pro-fit a man if he has no love? Fine theories to make you feel comfortable and noble, but in practice you shrink from even the smallest act of love. No, what is needed here is not a small act of love. It is something fundamental and important and difficult. To love your […]

The Edifice of Human Destiny

The Monk Alyosha, He Asks “Answer me: imagine that you your-self are building the edifice of human destiny with the object of making people happy in the finale, of giving them peace and rest at last, but for that you must inevitably and unavoidably torture just one tiny creature, that same child who was beating […]

God revealed himself Beyond The Possibilities Of Nature

“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… There is a via affirmativa, but it issues in the […]

Why do you Love?

“But if someone asks a good man: ‘Why do you love God?’—‘I do not know, because of God.’—‘Why do you love the truth?’—‘Be-cause of the truth.’—‘Why do you love justice?’—‘Because of justice.’—‘Why do you love goodness?’—‘Be-cause of goodness.’—‘Why are you living?’—‘My word, I do not know! But I am happy to be alive.” M. Eckhart

Sacramental Event

“A ritual or sacramental event relates to an event within time past through the capacities and power of language to carry it forward and to allow it to enter afresh into lives, however they may have been disrupted and broken.” David Noel Power

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