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...Thinking should be like musical meditation.
Has any philosopher pursued a thought to its limits
the way Bach or Beethoven
develop and exhaust a musical theme?
Even after having read the most profound thinkers,
one still feels the need to begin anew.
Only music gives definitive answers.
Before God I am a human being.... But I am caught in a situation from which there is truly and radically no escape, in a spider's web I cannot break. If I am to continue to be a living human being, someone must come to free me. In other words, God is not trying to humiliate me. What is mortally affronted in this situation is not my humanity or my dignity. It is my pride, the vainglorious declaration that I can do it all myself. This we cannot accept..
In our own eyes we have to declare ourselves to be righteous and free. We do not want grace. Fundamentally what we want is self-justification. There thus commences the patient work of reinterpreting revelation so as to make of it a Christianity that will glorify humanity and in which humanity will be able to take credit for its own righteousness.
- Jacques Ellul
....
“There is an immeasurability in happiness
that only feels at home
in the breadth of silence.
Happiness and silence belong together
just as do profit and noise.”
Max Picard
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from:
De Lazaro Concio II
“
Not to share one’s wealth with the poor
is to steal from them
and to take away
their livelihood.
It is not our own goods which we hold,
but theirs”.
st. john chrysostom
in the recent apostolic exhortation of Francis I
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