Kaitlin’s Reviews > That All Shall Be Saved: Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation > Status Update

"It may offend against our egalitarian principles today, but it was commonly assumed among the very educated of those times that the better part of humanity was something of a hapless rabble who could be made to behave responsibly only by the most terrifying coercions of their imaginations."

"We believe obscurely, hopefully, on the testimony of others."

"unity, truth, goodness, and beauty—which metaphysical tradition also says are convertible with one another, and ultimately with reality as such."

"For the whole substance of Christian faith is the conviction that another has already and decisively gone down into that abyss for us, to set all the prisoners free, even from the chains of their own hatred and despair; and hence the love that has made all of us who we are, and that will continue throughout eternity to do so, cannot ultimately be rejected by anyone."

" in us there is nothing that is not action, dynamism"

"After all, it would be possible for us to be saved as individuals only if it were possible for us to be persons as individuals; and we know we cannot be."

"The most effective technique for subduing the moral imagination is to teach it to mistake the contradictory for the paradoxical, and thereby to accept incoherence as profundity, or moral idiocy as spiritual subtlety."