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“Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.”
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“Viewed properly, there is only one duty, that of love, which is the fulfillment of the law (Romans 13:10). And there actually is only one object of that law- namely, God. Everything else- people, angels, nature, art, and so forth-may and must be only in God and for God. The sole end of all things, ourselves, our neighbors, the state, and the like- is God's glory. Pg. 101”
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“When we act on that goodness by rising out of bed, when we take that step to the block in radical defiance of suffering and our own anxiety and depression and hopelessness, with our heads held high, we honor God and His creation, and we testify to our family, to our neighbors, and to our friends of His goodness. This act is worship.”
― On Getting Out of Bed: The Burden and Gift of Living
― On Getting Out of Bed: The Burden and Gift of Living
“I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.”
― Simone Weil: An Anthology
― Simone Weil: An Anthology
“The perfection of his relation to us swallows up all our imperfections, all our defects, all our evils; for our childhood is born of his fatherhood. That man is perfect in faith who can come to God in the utter dearth of his feelings and his desires, without a glow or an aspiration, with the weight of low thoughts, failures, neglects, and wandering forgetfulness, and say to him, “Thou art my refuge, because thou art my home.”
― Unspoken Sermons Series I, II, and III
― Unspoken Sermons Series I, II, and III
Abbey’s 2025 Year in Books
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