It was granted to me to carry away from my prison years on my bent back, which nearly broke beneath its load, this essential experience: how a human being becomes evil and how good. In the intoxication of youthful successes I had felt myself to be infallible, and I was therefore cruel. In the surfeit … Continue reading Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: Even in the best of all hearts, there remains…an uprooted small corner of evil.
St. Augustine: The only cause of all created things is the goodness of the Creator
St. Augustine asserts that the pursuit of knowledge through natural sciences is limitless and often uncertain. However, believers should hold firm to the understanding that all existence originates from a benevolent Creator, who is the Triune God—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Martin Luther: The Everlasting Pity swore to save me from my anguish…
In devil’s dungeon chained I layThe pangs of death swept o’er me.My sin devoured me night and dayIn which my mother bore me.My anguish ever grew more rife,I took no pleasure in my lifeAnd sin had made me crazy. Then was the Father troubled soreTo see me ever languish.The Everlasting Pity sworeTo save me from … Continue reading Martin Luther: The Everlasting Pity swore to save me from my anguish…
G.K. Chesterton: The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason
The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason….Mysticism keeps men sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity.
Justin Martyr: The Word became man for our sakes, that, becoming a partaker of our sufferings
Whatever things were rightly said among all men, are the property of us Christians. For next to God, we worship and love the Word who is from the unbegotten and ineffable God, since also He became man for our sakes, that, becoming a partaker of our sufferings, He might also bring us healing. For all … Continue reading Justin Martyr: The Word became man for our sakes, that, becoming a partaker of our sufferings