We're in three living groups, 'cause even after the world's ended some assholes still can't get along.
If you do not love, you will not be alive; if you love effectively, you will be killed.
People who think they have no belief quite often say they want to pray but they do not know who or what they could be praying to. Aquinas would not say to such people, 'Ah, but you see, if you became a believer, a Christian, we would change all that. You would come to understand to whom you are praying. ' Not at all. He would say to such people, 'If you became a Christian you would stop being surprised or ashamed of your condition. You would be happy with it. For faith would assure you that you could not know what God is until he reveals himself to us openly. '
Theology is that discipline whereby we stop talking nonsense about God.
When God forgives our sin, he is not changing his mind about us; he is changing our mind about him.
Poetry is language trying to become bodily experience.
We need to do something about gun violence in America. But every time one of these things happen, we say the same thing, and then we don't seem to be able to do anything. And that needs to change.
In human affairs every solution serves only to sharpen the problem, to show us more clearly what we are up against. There are no final solutions.
All sorts of things in this world behave like mirrors.
It is not my place in society that makes me well off, but my judgements, and these I can carry with me. . . These alone are my own and cannot be taken away.