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Al Owski
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“This leads me to end with a spectacular thought from St Augustine, which I hope can still resolve our many problems of unity and diversity and embolden all ecumenical and interfaith understanding into the distant future. Read and reread my paraphrase of Augustine's quote until you get it, and until it touches everything you once thought of as profane: "Christians, you are Christ... for there is but One Son of God"”
— Sep 21, 2026 04:04PM
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Al Owski
is on page 238 of 260
“Jesus Christ is a Sacrament of the Presence of God for the whole universe!”
— Sep 21, 2026 05:27AM
Al Owski
is on page 237 of 260
“Maybe the Antichrist is much less a person than an attitude—and, unfortunately, an attitude that is quite common among many Christians! In my understanding, John is saying here that the Christ is the Universal Standing Symbol for what most people with their dualistic mind find hard to imagine or even appreciate—Matter and Spirit mirror one another and reveal the depths of one another.”
— Sep 21, 2026 05:21AM
Al Owski
is on page 237 of 260
“You can tell the spirit that comes from God by this: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus the Christ has come in the flesh is from God, and any spirit which will not say this of Jesus Christ is not from God, but is the spirit of the Antichrist (1 John 4:2-3).”
— Sep 21, 2026 05:18AM
Al Owski
is on page 236 of 260
“The call then becomes one toward universal solidarity with the full Christ journey rather than our usual habits of counting, weighing, or measuring individual worthiness or unworthiness. This is a very different message, which would create a very different notion of church and Gospel.”
— Sep 21, 2026 05:12AM
Al Owski
is on page 236 of 260
“Rugged individualism has pretty much decimated the transformative power of the Gospel. The lone and fragile individual can do nothing but fear God in this world and the next, whereas the intent of the Gospel was to draw us together into a communion of saints and sinners in this world where we bear the burden of life together.”
— Sep 20, 2026 07:33AM
Al Owski
is on page 234 of 260
“The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror, and each will smile at the other's welcome.”
— Sep 19, 2026 05:05AM
Al Owski
is on page 231 of 260
“You can take my word for it too that Greece, Egypt, ancient India and ancient China, the beauty of the world, the pure and authentic reflections of this beauty in art and science, what I have seen of the inner recesses of the human hearts where religious belief is unknown, all these things have done as much as the visibly Christian ones to deliver me into Christ's hands as his captive.” –Simone Weil
— Sep 19, 2026 04:36AM
Al Owski
is on page 227 of 260
“The universe is relational at every level, and even between levels. Relationship is the core and foundational shape of Reality, Mirroring our Trinitarian God (Genesis 1:26-27). Every object serves as a mirror, another kind of presence. You can find such mirrors in all of nature, in animals. In your parents, lovers, children, books, pictures, movies.”
— Sep 19, 2026 04:32AM
Al Owski
is on page 227 of 260
“If that mirror is withdrawn for any reason, It causes sadness, emptiness, or even anger. We are normally disoriented, even heartbroken for a while. We die in some way. But why? Because we only know ourselves in another's eyes. We receive our identity—all of it, good and bad—From another. The other both creates us and saves us. "No man is an island, entire of itself," says the poet John Donne.”
— Sep 19, 2026 04:26AM
Al Owski
is on page 227 of 260
“In this resonance, we literally come to life.”
— Sep 17, 2026 03:16PM