Thursday, October 4, 2007

Truth!

"Many people imagine that purgatory or hell are for those who have killed, stolen, lied, committed fornication, and so on and that it suffices to have abstained from these actions to merit Heaven; in reality the soul is consigned to the flames for not having loved God or for not having loved Him enough; this can be understood if we recall the supreme Law of the Bible: to love God with all our faculties and all our being. The absence of this love does not necessarily involve murder or lying or some other transgression, but it does necessarily involve indifference; and indifference, which is the most generally widespread of faults, is the very hallmark of the fall. It is possible for the indifferent not to be criminals, but it is impossible for them to be saints; it is they who go in by the 'wide gate' and follow the 'broad way'...

"Even believers themselves are for the most part too indifferent to feel concretely that God is not only 'above' us 'in Heaven', but also 'ahead' of us, at the end of the world or even simply at the end of our life; that we are drawn through life by an inexorable force and that at the end of the course God awaits us; that the world will be submerged and swallowed up one day by an unimaginable irruption of the purely miraculous-unimaginable because surpassing all human experiences and standards of measurement....There will be nothing but this one advent, this one presence, and by it the world of experiences will be shattered."
-FS

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