The Passion Narratives Are The First Pieces

There Is A Moment When The Interior Light Of The "eyes Of Faith" Becomes One With The Exterior Light That Shines From Christ, And This Occurs Because Man's Thirst, As He Strives And Seeks After God, Is Quenched As He Finds Repose In The Revealed Form Of The Son.

If One Does Away With The Fact Of The Resurrection, One Also Does Away With The Cross, For Both Stand And Fall Together, And One Would Then Have To Find A New Center For The Whole Message Of The Gospel.

But The Issue Is Not Only Life And Death But Our Existence Before God And Our Being Judged By Him. All Of Us Were Sinners Before Him And Worthy Of Condemnation.

We No Longer Dare To Believe In Beauty And We Make Of It A Mere Appearance In Order The More Easily To Dispose Of It.

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.