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In a discussion of origins we need to focus on the ontology of the cosmos. What does it mean for the world or the cosmos (or the objects in it) to exist?
“everything in the so-called world of nature is meant to lead us back to God. In that sense, created matter is meant to serve eucharistically. By treating the world as a eucharistic offering in Christ, received from God and offered to him, we are drawn into God's presence.”
― Heavenly Participation: The Weaving of a Sacramental Tapestry
― Heavenly Participation: The Weaving of a Sacramental Tapestry
“Precisely because heaven is already present on earth, the moral lives of Christians on earth are to reflect their heavenly participation.”
― Heavenly Participation: The Weaving of a Sacramental Tapestry
― Heavenly Participation: The Weaving of a Sacramental Tapestry
“Theology has suffered - among evangelicals as well as elsewhere - from an undue desire for clarity and control, something to which the often abstract and rarefied distinctions of Scholastic theology have contributed.”
― Heavenly Participation: The Weaving of a Sacramental Tapestry
― Heavenly Participation: The Weaving of a Sacramental Tapestry
“Effectiveness in life does not come from focusing on what is automatic, easy, or natural for us. Rather, it is the result of how we consciously strive to meet life’s harder challenges, grow beyond our comforts, and deliberately work to overcome our biases and preferences, so that we may understand, love, serve, and lead others.”
― High Performance Habits: How Extraordinary People Become That Way
― High Performance Habits: How Extraordinary People Become That Way
“At the nation’s top 130 colleges and universities, only 9 percent of first-year students are from the bottom half of the nation’s household income distribution, while 91 percent are from families in the top half of the income range.”
― Educating All God's Children: What Christians Can--and Should--Do to Improve Public Education for Low-Income Kids
― Educating All God's Children: What Christians Can--and Should--Do to Improve Public Education for Low-Income Kids
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