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“His motto, ‘To serve the Lord in total happiness’ was the force behind all his actions.”

“Enemy-occupied territory - that is what the world is. Christianity is the story of how the rightful king has landed, you might say in disguise, and is calling us all to take part in a great campaign of sabotage.”

“What is beauty but something that is responded to with emotion? Courage, at least partly, is emotional. All the splendor of life. But if the best of life is, in fact, emotional, then one wanted the highest, purest emotions: and that meant joy. Joy was the highest. How did one find joy?…If he wanted the heights of joy, he must have, if he could find it, a great love.” - Pg. 18

so behind! but it’s so good! spousal meaning of the body! marriage as primordial sacrament! woohoo!

we have read this book so out of order so I’ll just put this

“When he heard the words of God (“for when you eat of it you shall certainly die”), the man should have understood that the tree of knowledge had plunged its roots not only into ‘the garden in Eden,’ but also into his humanity.”