Twenty-second Sunday after Pentecost*

‘No matter how right we are in what we believe about God, no matter how accurately we phrase our belief or how magnificently and persuasively we preach or write or declare it, if love does not shape the way we speak and act, we falsify the creed, we confess a lie. Believing without loving is [...]

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Second Sunday after Pentecost

‘I do not believe that my generation, my cousins who have been educated in the American way, all of whom are M.D.s or Ph.D.s, have any comparable learning. When they talk about heaven and earth, the relations between men and women, parents and children, the human condition, I hear nothing but clichés, superficialities, the material [...]

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Second Sunday in Easter

‘I may say that never at any moment in my life have I ’sought for God’. For this reason, which is probably too subjective, I do not like this expression, and it strikes me as false.’
- Simone Weil
 
‘As God alone is a fit witness of himself in his Word, so also the Word will not [...]

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