"St. Paul would say to the philosophers that God created man so that he would seek the Divine, try to attain the Divine. That is why all pre-Christian philosophy is theological at its summit."

-- Hans Urs von Balthasar

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“I erased the thought from my mind, but I couldn't undo the fact that I'd had the thought in the first place.”

Source : Scarlett Thomas (2010). “Our Tragic Universe”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Garden work consists much more in uprooting weeds than in planting seed. This applies also to teaching.”
“I want to raise a family and have a couple of small Dirks running around. But it will not be easy to win my heart.”
“The entire Jesus concept, that human sacrifice should be the substratum of a moral religion of love, strikes me as incongruous. God condemned us and Jesus saved us, and they are actually the same being? Christianity is the idea that you are so abhorrent that God had to kill himself. He had to embody the human form and send himself on a bizarre suicide mission just to revoke the disgustingness of the humans he created. I balk at suggestions that these ideas dictate to the concepts of morality and love.”

Source : Trevor Treharne (2012). “How to Prove God Does Not Exist: The Complete Guide to Validating Atheism”, p.188, Universal-Publishers
“Maybe I'll try to be more patient with morons.”
“Give me a life wherever there is an opportunity to live, and better life than was my father's.”
“The definitions of the Church are the rules of true faith.”
“Christian brotherhood is not an ideal which we must realize; it is rather a reality created by God in Christ in which we may participate.”

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