#2,843

The Church’s function is not to adapt Christianity to the world, nor even to adapt the world to Christianity; her function is to maintain a counterworld in the world.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 455

#1,750

Everything that has value in the world is incongruous to it, and the world does not drag it along into the sunset.
Our past happinesses await us at the end of the day’s journey to anoint our injured feet.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 290

#1,279

Where is the world headed?
Toward the same transcience from which it comes.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 221

#1,236

Springtime is the dream of the eternal autumn of the world.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 215

#1,235

The universe is a useless dictionary for someone who does not provide his own grammar.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 215

#1,090

Happily, the world cannot be explained.
(What kind of world would it be if it could be explained by man?)

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 193

#1,001

Of the book of the world, we know nothing but pages written in a language we do not understand.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 180

#889

The world appears less alien to someone who acts than one’s own soul appears to someone who observes.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 162

#534

The world is a shattered purpose that the noble soul endeavors to restore.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 102

#429

In the dismal and suffocating building of the world, the cloister is the space open to the sun and to the air.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 86