There Is Much In Christianity Which Can

Above All We Must Not Wish To Cling To Our Suffering. Suffering Surely Deepens Us And Enhances Our Person, But We Must Not Desire To Become A Deeper Self Than God Wills. To Suffer No Longer Can Be A Beautiful, Perhaps The Ultimate Sacrifice.

To Be A Child Means To Owe One's Existence To Another, And Even In Our Adult Life We Never Quite Reach The Point Where We No Longer Have To Give Thanks For Being The Person We Are.

Christian Obedience, By Its Very Nature, Has A Heroic Character.

It Is To The Cross That The Christian Is Challenged To Follow His Master: No Path Of Redemption Can Make A Detour Around It.

Faith Means The Fundamental Response To The Love That Has Offered Itself Up For Me. It Thus Becomes Clear That Faith Is Ordered Primarily To The Inconceivability Of God's Love, Which Surpasses Us And Anticipates Us. Love Alone Is Credible; Nothing Else Can Be Believed, And Nothing Else Ought To Be Believed. This Is The Achievement, The 'work' Of Faith: To Recognize This Absolute Prius, Which Nothing Else Can Surpass; To Believe That There Is Such A Thing As Love, Absolute Love, And That There Is Nothing Higher Or Greater Than It.