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The flight away from self to God is not a "forgetting self" in the sense that man thereby loses himself. Rather, in the experience of the Spirit there...more

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Prior to an individual's encounter with the love of God at a particular time in history, however, there has to be another, more fundamental and archet...more

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But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of con...more

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The flight away from self to God is not a "forgetting self" in the sense that man thereby loses himself. Rather, in the experience of the Spirit there...more

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The first thing the Cross does is cross out the world's word by a Wholly-Other Word, a Word that the world does not want to hear at any price. For the...more

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Instead, it is the reality that the God-forsaken one experienced in an eminent way because no one can even approximately experience the abandonment by...more

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Once a person learns to read the signs of love and thus to believe it, love leads him into the open field wherein he himself can love. If the prodigal...more

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What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.

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We do not build the kingdom of God on earth by our own efforts (however assisted by grace); the most we can do through genuine prayer, is to make as m...more

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Nevertheless, in a passage that is very often commented upon because it summarizes the entire salvific economy of faith, the Apostle calls Christ the ...more

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For all his gentleness and humility unto death on the Cross, God does not relinquish his attribute of being judge and consuming fire. Nothing is more ...more

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Wonder—the enthusiastic ardor for the sublimity of being, for its worthiness to be an object of knowledge—promises to become the point of departure fo...more

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The Church does not dispense the sacrament of baptism in order to acquire for herself an increase in membership but in order to consecrate a human bei...more

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Mary thus learns that the Most High has ever borne a Son in his bosom, and that this Son has now chosen her bosom as dwelling-place.

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In Christ, for the first time, we see that in God himself there exists--within his inseparable unity--the distinction between the Father who gives and...more