Showing posts with label God. Show all posts
Showing posts with label God. Show all posts

March 20, 2011

#2,987

Concerning himself intensely with his neighbor’s condition allows the Christian to dissimulate to himself his doubts about the divinity of Christ and the existence of God.
Charity can be the most subtle form of apostasy.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 477

#2,986

The particular creature we love is never God’s rival. What ends in apostasy is the worship of man, the cult of humanity.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 477

#2,984

What is important is not that man believe in the existence of God; what is important is that God exist.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 477

March 17, 2011

#2,965

If one does not believe in God, the only honest alternative is vulgar utilitarianism.
The rest is rhetoric.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 474

March 15, 2011

#2,956

The modern clergy believe they can bring man closer to Christ by insisting on Christ’s humanity.
Thus forgetting that we do not trust in Christ because He is man, but because He is God.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 472

February 26, 2011

#2,852

God does not die, but unfortunately for man the subordinate gods like modesty, honor, dignity, decency, have perished.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 457

February 17, 2011

#2,799

I would not live for even a fraction of second if I stopped feeling the protection of God’s existence.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 449

February 9, 2011

#2,753

Man is important only if it is true that a God has died for him.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 442

February 7, 2011

#2,738

To speak about God is presumptuous; not to speak of God is idiotic.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 440

February 2, 2011

#2,708

He who does not search for God at the bottom of his soul finds there nothing but muck.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 436

January 24, 2011

#2,653

Unless circumstances constrain him, there is no radically leftist Jew.
The people that discovered divine absolutism does not make deals with the absolutism of man.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 428

January 23, 2011

#2,652

Freedom intoxicates man as a symbol of independence from God.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 428

January 22, 2011

#2,646

The two poles are the individual and God; the two antagonists are God and Man.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 427

#2,643

Subjectivism is the guarantee that man invents for himself when he stops believing in God.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 427

January 17, 2011

#2,612

There are many who believe they are God’s enemies but only manage to become the sacristan’s enemies.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 422

January 7, 2011

#2,555

Christianity completes paganism by adding confidence in God to fear of the divine.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 410

December 31, 2010

#2,514

The most dispiriting [kind of] solitude is not one lacking in neighbors, but one deserted by God.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 404

December 30, 2010

#2,504

The psychological study of conversions only produces flowers of rhetoric.
God’s ways are secret.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 403

December 17, 2010

#2,428

Only God and the central point of my consciousness are not accidental to me.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 391

December 15, 2010

#2,415

The impertinent attempt to justify “the ways of God to man” transforms God into a frustrated schoolmaster who invents educational games that are both cruel and childish.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 389