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“I cannot believe how much pain we are asked to bear when we are alive. How, even if there is a way, no one can show us how to live with it.”
― Here After
― Here After
“The whole economy of God is thus structured in such a way that we might learn the truth about God and the human being, and, in the end, become a living human being, the glory of God.”
― John the Theologian and his Paschal Gospel: A Prologue to Theology
― John the Theologian and his Paschal Gospel: A Prologue to Theology
“For the glory of the human being is God, while the vessel of the workings of God, and of all his wisdom and power is the human being.”
― The Mystery of Christ
― The Mystery of Christ
“Orthodox spirituality stresses the experience of God through the “mysteries” and through prayer of the heart. Western spirituality stresses the experience of God through contemplation, when the soul recollects itself and the mind rises beyond itself and things.”
― The Power of the Cross: Good Friday Sermons from the Papal Preacher
― The Power of the Cross: Good Friday Sermons from the Papal Preacher
“There is something ill about a person who makes a surrender of the great human good of married love and then fixes his heart on mere things. Or to put the same idea a bit differently, it is abnormal to give up a dearly loved human person and then attach one’s heart to subpersons. A healthy man or woman gives up married love only because he has found another and greater love.”
― Happy are You Poor: The Simple Life and Spiritual Freedom
― Happy are You Poor: The Simple Life and Spiritual Freedom
Adam’s 2025 Year in Books
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