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Now, religion is another word that has fallen out of favor. The Latin root, religio, means to bind. Is it any wonder that the apostles to popular culture now insist that “Christianity is not a religion; it is a relationship”?
“We are all constantly teaching and learning, forgiving and being forgiven, representing Christ to man when we intercede, and man to Christ when others intercede for us. The sacrifice of selfish privacy which is daily demanded of us is daily repaid a hundredfold in the true growth of personality which the life of the Body encourages. Those who are members of one another become as diverse as the hand and the ear. That is why the worldlings are so monotonously alike compared with the almost fantastic variety of the saints. Obedience is the road to freedom, humility the road to pleasure, unity the road to personality.”
― The Weight of Glory
― The Weight of Glory
“Now from his breast into his eyes the ache of longing mounted, and he wept at last, his dear wife, clear and faithful, in his arms, longed for
as the sunwarmed earth is longed for by a swimmer spent in rough water where his ship went down under Poseidon's blows, gale winds and tons of sea.”
― The Odyssey
as the sunwarmed earth is longed for by a swimmer spent in rough water where his ship went down under Poseidon's blows, gale winds and tons of sea.”
― The Odyssey
“You arrogant joking bastard! Clown, will you, like a fool, and parade your wit? Leave jesting to the gods who do it better. This will repay your cow's-foot courtesy to a great wanderer come home.”
― The Odyssey
― The Odyssey
“Then, throwing his arms around this marvel of a father Telémakhos began to weep. Salt tears rose from the wells of longing in both men, and cries burst from both as keen and fluttering as those of the great taloned hawk, whose nestlings farmers take before they fly.”
― The Odyssey
― The Odyssey
“I take our emotional life to be 'higher' than the life of our sensations - not, of course, morally higher, but richer, more varied, more subtle. And this is a higher level which nearly all of us know. And I believe that if anyone watches carefully the relation between his emotions and his sensations he will discover the following facts: (1) that the nerves do respond, and in a sense most adequately and exquisitely, to the emotions; (2) that their resources are far more limited, the possible variations of sense far fewer, than those of emotion; and (3) that the senses compensate for this by using the same sensation to express more than one emotion - even, as we have seen, to express opposite emotions.”
― The Weight of Glory
― The Weight of Glory
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