Mir Bal

“It was Romano Guardini, above all, who indicated an important aspect of this basic pattern of Christian—indeed, biblical—faith, which does not well up from within us but comes to us from outside: Christianity, the Christian faith, he tells us, is not the product of our own experiences; rather, it is an event that comes to us from without.2 Faith is based on our meeting something (or someone) for which our capacity for experiencing things is inadequate.”
― Pope Benedict XVI, Truth and Tolerance: Christian Belief and World Religions

“What we call forgiveness is often putting the other one on probation, nothing more; and lucky are the forgiven people if it is only probation and not remand.”
― Anthony Bloom, Living Prayer: The Pocket Library of Spiritual Wisdom