If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us … but if anyone does sin we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous; and He is the expiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for...
Are we to believe that God intended Abraham to kill Isaac? Some interpreters say so. God, they tell us, has the right to command such a sacrifice, and Abraham had the duty to obey. It was only because Abraham recognized this that God dispensed him from the obligation of obeying,...
And as for that in the good soil, they are those who, hearing the word, hold it fast in an honest and good heart, and bring forth fruit with patience. How are we to understand this saying, which speaks of an alliance between patience and the creativity of the Divine...
The deepest thing about the Annunciation is shown in this: that Gabriel does not so much explain God's plan to our Lady and ask her to co-operate with it; rather, he accords her a potent, but nonetheless fragmentary and mysterious, intimation of what God means to bring about, and she,...
If two become one, this might be through the subjection of the one to the other, involving a loss of individual identity and spontaneity, a kind of take-over: the oneness that is produced might be the oneness of only one of the two, because the oneness of the other finds...