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Responsibilities feel their cruelest when there is so little remaining of a good book!!!!!

"I am no bird, and no net ensnares me...."

"'Sir,' I answered, 'a wanderer's repose or a sinner's reformation should never depend on a fellow-creature. Men and women die; philosophers falter in wisdom, and Christians in goodness; if any one you know has suffered and erred, let him look higher than his equals for strength to amend and solace to heal."

"If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.... The sovereign Hand that created your frame, and put life into it, has provided you with other resources than your feeble self, or than creatures feeble as you."

"...[When the soul] has become entirely [God's], He abandons it. He leaves it completely alone, and it has, in its turn, but gropingly, to cross the infinite thickness of time and space in search of him whom it loves. It is thus that the soul, starting from the opposite end, makes the same journey that God made toward it. And that is the Cross."

Quickly becoming one of my favorite reads/listens of the year. Unexpectedly profound!

"When we embrace the possibility of transcending ourselves through God's grace, we do not deny our nature, nor do we become less human. On the contrary... 'We become fully human when we become more than human, when we let God bring us beyond ourselves in order to attain the fullest truth of our being.'"

"...We cannot consider AI to be morally neutral. In reality, every technical tool embodies choices and priorities through what it measures, ignores and optimizes, and how it classifies people and situation...."

"The dignity of every human being can be described as infinite, as St. John Paul II stated, for two reasons: first, because the love of God, who calls us to friendship with him, is infinite; and second, his love is absolutely unconditional, in the sense that, even if we search endlessly, we will never find anything that can erase or deny it."

"Clean and keen and wild and clear, the evening ploughed land's smell up in your nose and your mouth when you opened it, for Netherhill's teams had been out in that park all day, queer and lovely and dear the smell Chris noted."

"...as long as there people in the world who are excluded from the development befitting human dignity, the Christian community cannot be content with a theoretical proclamation of peace. Rather, beginning where people are marginalized, it must allow the Gospel to pass judgment on those economic and political structures which... can become veritable 'structures of sin.'"

"We must attain to the knowledge of a still fuller reality in suffering, which is a nothingness and a void. In the same way, we have to love life greatly in order to love death still more."

"The soul, / Forever and forever—longer than soil is brown and solid—longer than water ebbs and flows. // I will make poems of materials, for I think they are to be the most spiritual poems,/And I will make the pome sof my body of mortality, / For I think I shall then supply myself with the poms of my soul and of immortality."

Starting over, because I was not ready for a book written mostly in Scots 🙃