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“The argument is made that naming God is never really naming God but only naming our understanding of God. To take our ideas of the divine and hold them as if they correspond to the reality of God is thus to construct a conceptual idol built from the materials of our mind.”
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“Here God is not approached as an object that we must love, but as a mystery present in the very act of love itself.”
― The Idolatry of God: Breaking Our Addiction to Certainty and Satisfaction
― The Idolatry of God: Breaking Our Addiction to Certainty and Satisfaction
“Love is the crazy, mad, and perhaps ridiculous gesture of saying yes to life, of seeing it as worthy of our embrace and even worthy of our total sacrifice.”
― The Idolatry of God: Breaking Our Addiction to Certainty and Satisfaction
― The Idolatry of God: Breaking Our Addiction to Certainty and Satisfaction
“That which we cannot speak of is the one thing about whom and to whom we must never stop speaking.”
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“In contrast we let go of existence, meaning, and the sublime as categories to describe the object “God.” Instead these become ways in which we engage with the world. Yet, as we affirm the world in love, we indirectly sense that in letting go of God we have, in fact, found ourselves at the very threshold of God.”
― The Idolatry of God: Breaking the Addiction to Certainty and Satisfaction
― The Idolatry of God: Breaking the Addiction to Certainty and Satisfaction
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