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“Advent is the time of promise; it is not yet the time of fulfillment. We are still in the midst of everything and in the logical inexorability and relentlessness of destiny.…Space is still filled with the noise of destruction and annihilation, the shouts of self-assurance and arrogance, the weeping of despair and helplessness. But round about the horizon the eternal realities stand silent in their age-old longing. There shines on them already the first mild light of the radiant fulfillment to come. From afar sound the first notes as of pipes and voices, not yet discernable as a song or melody. It is all far off still, and only just announced and foretold. But it is happening, today.”
― Advent of the Heart: Seasonal Sermons and Prison Writings - 1941-1944
― Advent of the Heart: Seasonal Sermons and Prison Writings - 1941-1944
“...we pretend to be grown up and responsible; we are so proud and self-assured--and look at the result. The world lies in bomb dust and ruins about us.”
― Alfred Delp, SJ: Prison Writings
― Alfred Delp, SJ: Prison Writings
“Man is truly human only when he transcends himself. He becomes small when he is content with things and values from his own life sphere. For this reason, he feels a sense of annoyance when fulfillment does not happen, since he still has the vague sense that values once dwelt among mankind. But then confusion entered in, and reality slipped from our fingers. Individuals, like mankind in general, keep falling into mental weariness—what is more, into the diabolical.”
― Advent of the Heart: Seasonal Sermons and Writings - 1941-1944
― Advent of the Heart: Seasonal Sermons and Writings - 1941-1944
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