But The Issue Is Not Only Life

Beauty Is The Disinterested One, Without Which The Ancient World Refused To Understand Itself, A Word Which Both Imperceptibly And Yet Unmistakably Has Bid Farewell To Our New World, A World Of Interests, Leaving It To Its Own Avarice And Sadness.

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 Being To God And To Communicate To That Person The Divine Gift Of Birth From God.

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 Archetypal Encounter, Which Belongs To The Conditions Of Possibility Of The Appearance Of Divine Love To Man.

Lovers Are The Ones Who Know Most About God; The Theologian Must Listen To Them.

Above All We Must Not Wish To Cling To Our Suffering. Suffering Surely Deepens Us And Enhances Our Person, But We Must Not Desire To Become A Deeper Self Than God Wills. To Suffer No Longer Can Be A Beautiful, Perhaps The Ultimate Sacrifice.