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“If the unexamined life is not worth living, was the unlived life worth examining.”

Mom told me I’d like this. I reckon she’s right.

Horses should be considered man’s best friend

If anyone wants an in depth, visceral example of the fallenness of man, whether civilized or not, this book is for you.

“Some people say I’m a woman of great faith, I’m really a coward who keeps moving forward.”

She’s a spunky cloistered nun. God Bless this crazy Bride of Christ

“Because God himself became a mere worm, the last letter in the alphabet of creation, the last letter has become his letter and thereby turned history towards the final victory of love: the cross really is the salvation of the world.”

“Our Lady’s Psalter (or the Rosary made up of the Our Father and Hail Mary) is the direct work of the Most Blessed Trinity and was not made through a human instrument.”

“… the Psalter of Our Lady is greater than David’s Psalter which did no more than prefigure it”

“Being a Christian means essentially changing over from being for oneself to being for one another.”

“Christian faith lives on the discovery that not only is there such a thing as objective meaning, but this meaning knows me and loves me, I can trust myself to it like the child that knows all its questions answered in the “You” of its mother.

The basic confession of this book
“I believe in You, Jesus of Nazareth, as the meaning (logos) of the world and of my life.”

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Thank you Professor Merrill for such a wholesome book.

Went from people starving because Communism to people starving from Capitalism

“Jesus revealed that he saw himself as the unblemished male lamb that would be put to death so that others might live.”