Sublime

You might think of Augustine as offering a hitchhiker’s guide to the cosmos for wandering hearts.

In contrast to such limited notions, the aphorism with which Hölderlin prefaced his Hyperion will serve to recall the Christian image of the true greatness of God: “Non coerceri maximo, contineri tamen a minimo, divinum est” (Not to be encompassed by the greatest, but to let oneself be encompassed by the smallest—that is divine).

God wishes to approach man only through man; he seeks out man in no other way but in his fellow humanity.

the leader who sees the church as the Body of Christ will be in wholehearted agreement knowing that the health of a body is far more important than the size!

Much could be said about this. Let us content ourselves with the indispensable elucidations by first asking what it really means to say that this logos, whose thought is the world, is a person and that therefore faith is the option in favor of the primacy of the particular over the universal. In the last analysis, the answer can be put quite