No one ever begins anything, except by grace. To sin means to think that one can begin something oneself. We never start anything; we always respond.
— René Girard, Battling to the End, 22 https://t.co/uVlBR5l5OX
No one ever begins anything, except by grace. To sin means to think that one can begin something oneself. We never start anything; we always respond. — René Girard, Battling to the End, 22 https://t.co/uVlBR5l5OX
“Sin” derives from the Greek word for missing the mark : human beings are aiming creatures.
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Augustine once said that you can seek God only because God has already found you. The point is that, even your seeking—which seems and feels as if you are taking the initiative—is actually already, on a very deep level, a response to God. The seeking may, paradoxically, be evidence of the finding—or, should I say, the having been found. I once had
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Saint Ignatius of Loyola said that sin is an unwillingness to trust that what God wants is our deepest happiness. Until we are convinced of this, we will seek to control our own lives.
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Beginnings, like endings, are slippery. Because everything exists in the middle. There was something before, and there will be something after.
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@gptbrooke “Every act alters the soul of the doer.”
— Spengler
“When we sin, we're participating in the energies and the works of demons, and we’re bringing those works of demons into reality.”
— Fr. De Young
“It is not really a small thing when in small things we... See more
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