“All our falls are useful if they strip us of a disastrous confidence in ourselves while they do not take away a humble and saving trust in God.”
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“The soul that is sustained by God…is not surprised at its own wretchedness. It is delighted to find new proof that it can do nothing of itself and that God must do everything.”
I can’t start a thread for everyone I’m reading,so I’ll just post here. By Merton:
We are not only contingent beings, dependent on the love and will of a creator whom we cannot know experientially except in so far as He reveals to us our personal relationship with Him as His sons - we are also sinners who have freely repudiated this relationship. We have rebelled against Him. The spirit of rebellious refusal persists in our heart even when we try to return to Him. Much could be said, at this point, about all the subtlety and ingenuity of religious egoism which is one of the worst and most ineradicable forms of self-deception. Sometimes one feels that a well-intentioned and inculpable atheist is in many ways better off - and gives more glory to God - than some people whose bigoted complacency and inhumanity to others are signs of the most obvious selfishness!
We are not only contingent beings, dependent on the love and will of a creator whom we cannot know experientially except in so far as He reveals to us our personal relationship with Him as His sons - we are also sinners who have freely repudiated this relationship. We have rebelled against Him. The spirit of rebellious refusal persists in our heart even when we try to return to Him. Much could be said, at this point, about all the subtlety and ingenuity of religious egoism which is one of the worst and most ineradicable forms of self-deception. Sometimes one feels that a well-intentioned and inculpable atheist is in many ways better off - and gives more glory to God - than some people whose bigoted complacency and inhumanity to others are signs of the most obvious selfishness!
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