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“Tomorrow life began anew. It was not going to be pleasant, the way he had thought of pleasant things so far. It was going to be the greatest of all great adventures, though. He had a natural urge for adventure; it was that, perhaps, which made him doubt again and again that he could be happy among the worthy canons of Pamplona.”

“The truth is that every wedding vow is potentially a vow of celibacy because a man and a woman unilaterally and unconditionally promise fidelity to their spouse. The word “if” does not appear at the beginning of your wedding vows… But if wedding vows were conditional, all married love would simply be self-love. Authentic love means taking risk.”

Ok this is phenomenal

So dense, each one of these mini-talks is packed with good stuff so far

“The dysfunction into which men and women have fallen is like an addiction or an obsession: any attempt on their part to overcome the difficulty will only sink them deeper into it. Therefore the proper attitude in the presence of the saving God is obedience and acquiescence, imitating his moves, responding to his commands, doing whatever he tells us.”

“In Jeremiah's prophecy of the New Covenant, Yahweh had said, ‘I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts’ (Jer. 31:33).
This means that the everlasting agreement would be written not on stone tablets, but in the flesh of the people's hearts; it would be not an oppressive law externally imposed, but a rule congruent with the deepest longing of the human soul.“