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“Men imagine that the choices before them are theirs to make. But we are free to act only upon what is given. Choice is lost in the maze of generations and each act in that mazeis itself an enslavement for it voids every alternate and binds one ever more tightly in to the constraints that make a life.”
― Cities of the Plain
― Cities of the Plain
“The teaching of celibacy was created neither by the Church Fathers nor by the later Church leaders, as most people believe.”
― Celibacy: a Godsend or a Life-Undermining Practice
― Celibacy: a Godsend or a Life-Undermining Practice
“Then he quoted from a French Jesuit named Teilhard de Chardin: “He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest fact grasped in its total, concrete reality.”
― We Are Not Ourselves
― We Are Not Ourselves
“What is it about an unsolved mystery...that captures us so. that makes us lean forward. looking for an answer? Is it just the challenge of cracking it ourselves or do we rather hope that it will never be solved? Because in solving something, in pinning it down,in reducing it to one reality, something of the magic is lost. Don't we all hope, even the fiercest realists among us, that there is another answer that transcends our understanding? A heaven above us, after all.”
― The Truants
― The Truants
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