Aelred Watkin > Quotes

“We have only to reflect upon the fact that no human being can be a substitute for another, a fact of which love makes us sharply aware with its impelling desire for a unique relationship with a unique person, to realise what this means and to discover that we have here something not met with in the rest of nature; that we are dealing with a uniqueness which goes far beyond mere individuation of bodies or mere differences of appearance and behaviour.”
― Aelred Watkin, Resurrection Is Now: how death is not only an end but a beginning, and how to live life as a preparation for death and resurrection.

“We have, of course, this continuity, but we are conscious of something more; we have, as no animal or plant has, the power of self-reflection and we can see in ourselves something more than a mere continuity of identity.”
― Aelred Watkin, Resurrection Is Now: how death is not only an end but a beginning, and how to live life as a preparation for death and resurrection.

“On the biological level human births exhibit that total change in the darkness of the womb which man shares with animals; but, over and above this, the union of human beings has resulted in a new creation which transcends, while it includes, all that we have seen in the rebirths of the world around us.”
― Aelred Watkin, Resurrection Is Now: how death is not only an end but a beginning, and how to live life as a preparation for death and resurrection.