Anonymous ID: fbfa3a Feb. 20, 2022, 4:05 p.m. No.15677801   🗄️.is đź”—kun

>>15677521

>The store owner rebuked them in Jesus name.

 

AMEN

 

"The defects of the society divorced from God become more apparent with the development of [the State, a serpent] that seeks to control of all modes of thinking, the abolition of liberty, the direct and immediate claim to fix eternal value in a terrestrial state of affairs, these are merely the prelude to the disintegration and impoverishment of mental and spiritual life.

 

There is a close correlation between the thinkers who affirm the existence of God and those who affirm human liberty, as between those who deny the existence of God and those who deny human liberty. The reason is that by separating ourselves from God, the only being who merits absolutely the title Being, we become the slaves of the materialistic physical world. Conversely, the consciousness of the interval that separates willing from what we have been able to will incites the idea of liberty and a continual effort to surpass ourselves in order to remain fully human.

 

It is this consciousness that allows us to regain the principle of our being and attach ourselves to it; it is by this means that we are able to attach ourselves to the Divine without ceasing to be ourselves, and without Being's ceasing to be itself."

 

from Maurice Blondel’s “Action” Against the Totalitarians

R. Jaques

University of Toronto Quarterly

University of Toronto Press

Volume 9, Number 2, January 1940

pp. 214-221