Posted on 12/01/2018 8:00:41 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
All attempts to find a way out of the plight of today’s world are fruitless unless we redirect our consciousness, in repentance, to the Creator of all: without this, no exit will be illumined, and we shall seek it in vain.
...We must first recognize the horror perpetrated not by some outside force, not by class or national enemies, but within each of us individually, and within every society.
This is especially true of a free and highly developed society, for here in particular we have surely brought everything upon ourselves, of our own free will. We ourselves, in our daily unthinking selfishness...
Our life consists not in the pursuit of material success but in the quest for worthy spiritual growth. Our entire earthly existence is but a transitional stage in the movement toward something higher, and we must not stumble and fall, nor must we linger fruitlessly on one rung of the ladder.
Material laws alone do not explain our life or give it direction. The laws of physics and physiology will never reveal the indisputable manner in which the Creator constantly, day in and day out, participates in the life of each of us...
To the ill-considered hopes of the last two centuries, which have reduced us to insignificance and brought us to the brink of nuclear and non-nuclear death, we can propose only a determined quest for the warm hand of God, which we have so rashly and self-confidently spurned. Only in this way can our eyes be opened to the errors of this unfortunately twentieth century and our bands be directed to setting them right. There is nothing else to cling to in the landslide: the combined vision of all the thinkers of the Enlightenment amounts to nothing.
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“the understanding of law changes”
Like our currently broken Judicial system.
Dearest Simon, thank you for your reply! May our merciful Lord and Creator be pleased to baptize you with His love and mercy, and all us sinners as well. Thanks.
Rita
I don’t think mankind has given up on a God so much as they have diminished Him. They have taken Him off His throne as absolute righteous Judge and omnipotent creator and turns Him into a kindly if not doddering old man who winks at their sin and just wants to be sure everyone has a good time. That is a greater sin than forgetting Him. God will not be mocked
Even as redeemed and dearly beloved children and heirs I think Christians forget just how powerful righteous just and holy our Father is.
Thank you for the kind thoughts.
Like those wily potentates like Putin and Merkel, neither hot nor cold, good friends in divinity, making hay out of their heritage.
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