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Only In Christ Are All Things In Communion. He Is The Point Of Convergence Of All Hearts And Beings And Therefore The Bridge And The Shortest Way From Each To Each.

No One Should Think He Can Quickly Dispose Of Questions Posed Here Offhandedly. It Was Precisely Because Writers Were In The Habit During The Time Of The Reformation Of Theologizing With A Hammer That The Split In The Church Became Irreparable. And To Work At Overcoming This Split Means Much Effort. Only The Patient Need Apply.

Beauty Is The Disinterested One, Without Which The Ancient World Refused To Understand Itself, A Word Which Both Imperceptibly And Yet Unmistakably Has Bid Farewell To Our New World, A World Of Interests, Leaving It To Its Own Avarice And Sadness.

Above All We Must Not Wish To Cling To Our Suffering. Suffering Surely Deepens Us And Enhances Our Person, But We Must Not Desire To Become A Deeper Self Than God Wills. To Suffer No Longer Can Be A Beautiful, Perhaps The Ultimate Sacrifice.

A Truth That Is Merely Handed On, Without Being Thought Anew From Its Very Foundations, Has Lost Its Vital Power.