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A man of ripe and rich development will rather become a voluntary exile, will rather suffer imprisonment, nay, even sacrifice life itself, than tolerate constraint in the forum of his conscience.
“The human race was now a single entity with a supreme responsibility towards itself; there were no longer any private rights at all, such as had certainly existed, in the period previous to this. Man now possessed dominion over every cell which composed His Mystical Body, and where any such cell asserted itself to the detriment of the Body, the rights of the whole were unqualified.”
― Lord of the World
― Lord of the World
“...emphasizing the wrong items, emphasizing the machines rather than how to run the machines.”
― The Martian Chronicles
― The Martian Chronicles
“We're created in the image of the Triune God, who is a communion of Persons. As such, we are created in relation - to God, one another, creation. Created in relation, we are created in dependence. I live because I'm properly related to the air, water, and food that come my way. I share joy, pain, laughter, comfort, sorrow, and fear because I'm part of various human communities. My knowledge of God isn't a distant knowing-about, but a result of being brought into the communion of Persons that is God. Many think our relational dependence is the obvious sign of our creaturehood, the fact we've been created from nothing. In fact, it's an aspect of being an image of God, for God is a communion of mutually dependent, divine Persons.”
― God of Hope
― God of Hope
“Half-assed programming was a time-filler that, like knitting, must date to the beginning of the human experience.”
― A Fire Upon the Deep
― A Fire Upon the Deep
“We are not called to embody Jesus ourselves; He has already been incarnated and is still even now! No, we are not called to be Jesus; we are called to fall at His feet and worship Him. We are called to affirm that "the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth." [John 1:14] And it is through this worship, through recognizing His rightful place, that we are finally humbled.
When we are consumed with God's glory, we forget to worry about our own. When our eyes are fixed on Him as the source of all goodness and truth and beauty, we accept that we are not. When we are enamored by His worth and majesty, we can stop being so enamored with ourselves. And fascinatingly, when we seek God's glory, we'll be able to appreciate it in the people around us. Instead of seeing them as threats to our own glory, we will see them as beautiful reflections of His.”
― Humble Roots: How Humility Grounds and Nourishes Your Soul
When we are consumed with God's glory, we forget to worry about our own. When our eyes are fixed on Him as the source of all goodness and truth and beauty, we accept that we are not. When we are enamored by His worth and majesty, we can stop being so enamored with ourselves. And fascinatingly, when we seek God's glory, we'll be able to appreciate it in the people around us. Instead of seeing them as threats to our own glory, we will see them as beautiful reflections of His.”
― Humble Roots: How Humility Grounds and Nourishes Your Soul
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