March 2010
3 posts
You do not resolve the God question in your head
St. Bonaventure and others said that a poor uneducated person might well know and love God more than a great theologian or ecclesastic.
You do not resolve the God question in your head - or even in the perfection of moral response. It is resolved in you when you agree to bear the mystery of God: God’s suffering for the world and God’s ecstasy in the world.
Agreeing to this task is...
“You write in your letter something which I sometimes feel also: “Sometimes I do...”
– Vincent van Gogh in a letter to his brother Theo (March 1883) (via predatorywaspobserver) (via crashinglybeautiful)
