Christian Obedience, By Its Very Nature, Has

Thus It Is Necessary To Commence From An Inescapable Duality: The Finite Is Not The Infinite.

Only The Christian Religion, Which In Its Essence Is Communicated By The Eternal Child Of God, Keeps Alive In Its Believers The Lifelong Awareness Of Their Being Children, And Therefore Of Having To Ask And Give Thanks For Things.

Not Longer Loved Or Fostered By Religion, Beauty Is Lifted From Its Face As A Mask, And Its Absence Exposes Features On That Face Which Threaten To Become Incomprehensible To Man.

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.

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.