Men Have Never Been Good, They Are

When We Speak Of Our Virtues We Are Competitors, When We Confess Our Sins We Become Brothers.

We Are Now Assuming That We Have Here The Centre And Goal Of All God's Works, And Therefore The Hidden Beginning Of Them All. We Are Also Assuming That The Prominent Place Occupied By This Divine Work Has Something Corresponding To It In The Essence Of God, That The Son Forms The Centre Of The Trinity, And That The Essence Of The Divine Being Has, So To Speak, Its Locus ... In His Work, In The Name And Person Of Jesus Christ.

Society Is Now Really Ruled By Its Own Logos; Say Rather By A Whole Pantheon Of Its Own Hypostases And Powers... We Are Beginning To Suspect That The Idols Are Vain, But Their Demonic Influence Upon Our Lives Is Not Thereby Allayed. For It Is One Thing To Entertain Critical Doubts Regarding The God Of This World, And Another Thing To Perceive The Dunamis, The Meaning And Might Of The Living God Who Is Building A New World.

The Spirit Bears Witness. Ecstasy And Enlightenment, Inspiration And Intuition Are Not Necessary. Happy Is The Man Who Is Worthy Of These; But Woe Unto Us If We Wait For Such Experiences; Woe Unto Us If We Do Not Perceive That These Things Are Of Secondary Importance.

When I Come Before These Men I Do Not Have To Explain That We Are All Sinners. They Have Committed Every Sin There Is. All I Have To Tell Them Is That I, Too, Am A Sinner.