“Humour is about a clash of perspective that gets resolved with play; absurdity is about a clash of perspectives that we can’t resolve with play.”
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“We do not know what God is. God Himself does not know what He is because He is not anything. Literally God is not, because He transcends being.”
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“By his gracious condescension God became man and is called man for the sake of man and by exchanging his condition for ours revealed the power that elevates man to God through his love for God and brings God down to man because of his love for man. By this blessed inversion, man is made God by divinization and God is made man by hominization.45 [1084D] For the Word of God and God wills always and in all things to accomplish the mystey of his embodiment.”
― On the Cosmic Mystery of Jesus Christ
― On the Cosmic Mystery of Jesus Christ
“Crows remember human faces. They remember the people who feed them, who are kind to them. And the people who wrong them too. They don’t forget. They tell each other who to look after and who to watch out for.”
― Crooked Kingdom
― Crooked Kingdom
“Why do you guys say that, anyway? No mourners, no funerals? Why not just say good luck or be safe?”
“We like to keep our expectations low.”
― Crooked Kingdom
“We like to keep our expectations low.”
― Crooked Kingdom
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