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And this need for communality of worship is the chief torment of each man individually, and of mankind as a whole, from the beginning of the ages.
Larissa Volokhonsky • The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue
Suffering people can love and trust a suffering God, Only a suffering God can “save” suffering people, Those who have passed across this chasm can and will save one another.
Richard Rohr • Breathing Under Water : Spirituality and the Twelve Steps
need and ministering to them in Christ, and with them departed this life serenely happy; for they were infected by others with the disease, drawing on themselves the sickness of their neighbors and cheerfully accepting their pains.
Rodney Stark • The Triumph of Christianity
Heidegger's Phenomenology of Religion: Realism and Cultural Criticism (Philosophy of Religion)
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“The world” is the general name for all the passions. When we wish to call the passions by a common name, we call them the world. But when we wish to distinguish them by their special names, we call them passions. The passions are the following: love of riches, desire for possessions, bodily pleasure from which comes sexual passion, love of honor w
... See morethe spiritual life, if lived fully and without reservation, is demanding and unavoidably dangerous.
Reginald A. Ray • Secret of the Vajra World
Toward the end of the second plague, Bishop Dionysius of Alexandria wrote a pastoral letter to his members, extolling those who had nursed the sick and especially those who had given their lives in doing so: Most of our brothers showed unbounded love and loyalty, never sparing themselves and thinking only of one another. Heedless of danger, they to
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