Love is…
· 31 January 2006
Love is the most dangerous thing in the world.
“The ultimate risk”, says Peter Kreeft
Quotes for January 2006
Indifference is the only road that…
· 30 January 2006
Indifference is the only road that never gets to God.
Joy is not a feeling…
· 29 January 2006
Joy is not a feeling in us. Joy does not enter into us. We enter into joy: “Enter into the joy of your Lord” (Mt 25:21).
Doubts are the ants in the pants…
· 28 January 2006
Doubts are the ants in the pants that keep faith moving.
No one can understand life if…
· 27 January 2006
No one can understand life if he is ungrateful for it.
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Light and Darkness
· 26 January 2006
Is everything light, surrounding pockets of darkness? Or is everything darkness, surrounding little pockets of light?
Which one does the post-modern world say yes to? Christ, of course, says yes to the opposite.
True love is willing to suffer…
· 25 January 2006
True love, unlike popular sentimental substitutes, is willing to suffer. Love is not “luv.” Love is the cross. Our problem at first, the sheer problem of suffering, was a cross without Christ. We must never fall into the opposite and equal trap of a Christ without a cross.
Suffering is not blessed because…
· 24 January 2006
Suffering is not blessed because it is suffering but because it is [Christ’s]. Suffering is not the context that explains the cross; the cross is the context that explains suffering.
We too are the bread that is…
· 23 January 2006
Since we are [Christ’s] body, we too are the bread that is broken for others. Our failures help heal other lives; our very tears help wipe away tears; our being hated helps those we love.
We only know through…
· 22 January 2006
Not only do we only know God through Jesus Christ, but we only know ourselves through Jesus Christ; we only know life and death through Jesus Christ. Apart from Jesus Christ we cannot know the meaning of our life or our death, of God or of ourselves.
Kindness cannot tolerate…
· 21 January 2006
Kindness—mere kindness—cannot tolerate suffering. Love can.
We are rebels…
· 20 January 2006
We are not merely imperfect creatures who need to grow, we are rebels who need to lay down our arms.
If we will not learn to eat…
· 19 January 2006
If we will not learn to eat the only fruit the universe can grow—the only fruit any possible universe can grow—we must starve eternally.
The wrath of God…
· 18 January 2006
The love of God is no human projection, but the wrath of God is. In fact, what we call the wrath of God is really the love of God experienced by a fool.
In death as in an ocean…
· 17 January 2006
In death as in an ocean, all our slow or swift diminishments flow out and merge. Death is the sum and consummation of all our dimishments.
There is no scientific proof…
· 16 January 2006
There is no scientific proof that only scientific proofs are good proofs; no way to prove by the scientific method that the scientific method is the only valid method.
Love life more than…
· 15 January 2006
Love life more than the meaning of life, love life in spite of logic.
Concepts without sensations…
· 14 January 2006
Concepts without sensations are empty, sensations without concepts are blind.
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Sin has made us stupid…
· 13 January 2006
Sin has made us stupid, so that we can only learn the hard way.
Science only answers…
· 12 January 2006
Science only answers the question, How does it work? Or at most, What’s there? Science asks what and how, philosophy asks why, myth and religion ask who. Who’s in charge here? Who’s the author? That’s what we really long to know.
Meaning and Matter
· 11 January 2006
How you approach the problem of suffering depends on how you approach life itself. There are only two ways. Either meaning is surrounded by matter, or matter is surrounded by meaning.
If God is…
· 10 January 2006
If God is, why is there evil? But if God is not, why is there good?
Our only qualitifcation for grace…
· 9 January 2006
Our only qualitifcation for God’s grace is our emptiness, not our fullness; our undeservingness, not our deservingness.
Heaven and Hell are made of…
· 8 January 2006
Perhaps Heaven and Hell are made of the same thing everything is made of, namely truth, the one thing is inescapable. To love it and live on it as our food, is Heaven. To hate it and fear it and to be tortured by it, is Hell. For truth is inescapable; God can no more turn off the light of His truth than the sun can stop shining.
God’s truth is Love.
Other religions are…
· 7 January 2006
Other religions are stories of man’s search for God. The Bible is the story of God’s search for man.
Annotations in the margins of life…
· 6 January 2006
Blogs are annotations in the margins of life.
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Purity of heart…
· 5 January 2006
Purity of heart is to will one thing.
To will is an action, but purity also connotates a state of being. Doing comes from being, being from doing. Purity of heart is all directed to the one thing—the good.
Science and religion…
· 4 January 2006
Science and religion no more contradict each other than light and electricity.
New ways of living…
· 3 January 2006
We do not think ourselves into new ways of living, but we live ourselves into new ways of thinking.
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A 1000 different ways…
· 2 January 2006
Take time today to pause every now and then, take a deep breath of that moment, and know that God loves you. He will whisper “I love you” in a 1000 different ways.
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