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Austin Storm
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But you had to toughen yourself up in certain ways, and getting well done was kind of natural because you were on the griddle.
“Henri de Lubac, one of the most outstanding Roman Catholic theologians of the twentieth century, put it with a clarity and brevity very hard to improve upon: ‘It is not sincerity, it is truth which frees us… To seek sincerity above all things is perhaps, at bottom, not to want to be transformed.”
― Silence and Honey Cakes: The Wisdom of the Desert
― Silence and Honey Cakes: The Wisdom of the Desert
“When I am dead, I hope it may be said: "His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.”
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“The Church is a perpetually defeated thing that always outlives her conquerers.”
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“I am not a mechanism, an assembly of various sections.
and it is not because the mechanism is working wrongly, that I am ill.
I am ill because of wounds to the soul, to the deep emotional self,
and the wounds to the soul take a long, long time, only time can help
and patience, and a certain difficult repentance
long difficult repentance, realization of life’s mistake, and the freeing oneself
from the endless repetition of the mistake
which mankind at large has chosen to sanctify.”
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and it is not because the mechanism is working wrongly, that I am ill.
I am ill because of wounds to the soul, to the deep emotional self,
and the wounds to the soul take a long, long time, only time can help
and patience, and a certain difficult repentance
long difficult repentance, realization of life’s mistake, and the freeing oneself
from the endless repetition of the mistake
which mankind at large has chosen to sanctify.”
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Austin’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Austin’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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