Christian Obedience, By Its Very Nature, Has

To Be A Child Means To Owe One's Existence To Another, And Even In Our Adult Life We Never Quite Reach The Point Where We No Longer Have To Give Thanks For Being The Person We Are.

Whoever Removes The Cross And Its Interpretation By The New Testament From The Center, In Order To Replace It, For Example, With The Social Commitment Of Jesus To The Oppressed As A New Center, No Longer Stands In Continuity With The Apostolic Faith.

Our Situation Today Shows That Beauty Demands For Itself At Least As Much Courage And Decision As Do Truth And Goodness, And She Will Not Allow Herself To Be Separated And Banned From Her Two Sisters Without Taking Them Along With Herself In An Act Of Mysterious Vengeance.

Being Disguised Under The Disfigurement Of An Ugly Crucifixion And Death, The Christ Upon The Cross Is Paradoxically The Clearest Revelation Of Who God Is.

Wonder — The Enthusiastic Ardor For The Sublimity Of Being, For Its Worthiness To Be An Object Of Knowledge — Promises To Become The Point Of Departure For Genuine Insight Only Where It Has Reached The Stage In Which The Subject, Overwhelmed By The Object, Has, As It Were, Fused Into A Single Point Or Into Nothing.