Status Updates From Our Reasonable Faith

"Let us not then charge Adam with guilt but rather thank Christ who has loved us so exceedingly. Let us not look back to Paradise but forward to the cross. Behind that cross lies the crown which can never fade away."

"Adam was not yet at the beginning what he could be and had to become at the end. He lived in Paradise, but not yet in heaven."

"His [man's] emotions are by no means set in motion merely by useful and pleasurable things inside the material world but are roused and stimulated also by ideal, spiritual goods which are wuite insusceptible to arithmetical calculation."

"Animals are symbols of our virtues and vices: the dog shows us the image of loyalty, the spider of industry, the lion of courage, the sheep of innocence, the dove of integrity, the deer of the soul thirsting for God, the fox of cunning, the worm of misery, the tiger of cruelty, the swine of baseness, the snake of devilish guile..."

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