Every Experience Of Beauty Points To [eternity].

Hence The Importance Of Patience In The New Testament, Which Becomes The Basic Constituent Of Christianity, More Central Even Than Humility: The Power To Wait, To Persevere, To Hold Out, To Endure To The End, Not To Transcend One's Own Limitations, Not To Force Issues By Playing The Hero Or The Titan, But To Practice The Virtue That Lies Beyond Heroism, The Meekness Of The Lamb Which Is Led.

When You Say Yes To God Unconditionally, You Have No Idea How Far This Yes Is Going To Take You. Certainly Farther Than You Can Guess And Calculate Beforehand... But Just How Far And In What Form? At The Same Time, This Yes Is The Sole, Non-negotiable Prerequisite Of All Christian Understanding, Of All Theology And Ecclesial Wisdom.

Everything In Irenaeus Is Bathed In A Warm And Radiant Joy, A Wise And Majestic Gentleness. His Words Of Struggle Are Hard As Iron And Crystal Clear, ... So Penetrating That They Cannot Fail To Enlighten The Unbiased Observer.

The Passion Narratives Are The First Pieces Of The Gospels That Were Composed As A Unity.

The Christian Response Is Contained In These Two Fundamental Dogmas: That Of The Trinity And That Of The Incarnation. In The Trinitarian Dogma God Is One, Good, True, And Beautiful Because He Is Essentially Love, And Love Supposes The One, The Other, And Their Unity.