The Christian is then not simply a man of goodwill, who commits himself to a certain set of beliefs, who has a definite dogmatic conception of the universe, of man, and of man’s reason for existing. He is not simply one who follows a moral code of brotherhood and benevolence with strong emphasis on certain rewards and punishments dealt out to the individual … On the contrary Christians themselves too often fail to realise that the infinite God is dwelling within them, so that he is in them and they are in him. They remain unaware of the presence of the infinite source of being right in the midst of the world and of men. True Christian wisdom is therefore oriented to the experience of the divine light which is present in the world, the light in whom all things are, and wh
27 February 2014, The Tablet
Spiritual readings – 1 March 2014
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