\”That is, the first thing you are to remember in prayer is who it is you’re talking to, because nothing will condition your prayer life more deeply than remembering that you’re in conversation with God, the sovereign Creator and Ruler of the universe. Second, you are to remember who you are. You are not God. […]
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Twenty years have passed since I first read the Chronicles of Narnia, but I recently replaced a lost set and have started reading them again. I am halfway through book two, Prince Caspian, and will post reviews of each book as I go. Here are a few thoughts I have so far about the series
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\”In short, no prayer of any human being ever uttered in history ever changed the mind of God in the slightest, because His mind doesn’t ever need to be changed. . . . prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us. As we engage in this
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Graham Greene, an author who focused on contemporary political and moral issues of his day, was raised Catholic and each of his novels have Christian themes woven throughout. His realistic prose highlights the battle against evil in each man, and The Human Factor is one of his best works. Maurice Castle, the protagonist of the
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\”She [the church] is not in the business of telling the world what’s right and wrong so that it can do good and avoid evil. She is in the business of offering, to a world that knows all about that tiresome subject, forgiveness for its chronic unwillingness to take its own advice. But the minute
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\”If God wanted to destroy the world, he wouldn’t have to do anything; he would have to stop doing something. god is not only the initial cause of the world at its beginning; he is the present and immediate cause of the world at every moment of its being.\” (Robert Farrar Capon, The Romance of the
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\”The rule in theology is: When you’ve got two truths that you can’t hold in harmony, you don’t solve the problem by letting one of them go. You hang on tight and hold them both in paradox. At least that way ou don’t end up sweeping jewelry under the run gin the name of compulsive
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\”The human race is, was, and probably always will be deeply unwilling to accept a human messiah. We don’t want to be saved in our humanity; we want to be fished out of it. We crucified Jesus not because he was God but because he blasphemed: he claimed to be God and then failed to
\”The Word and the Spirit, as we said, are in on the act of creation, and Christ is in the Old Testament, and the Spirit of the Lord is in Isaiah, and Jesus is before Abraham was, and he had glory with the Father before the world existed. And as far as the church is
\”. . . the theologian’s real work is not to prove that the Faith is true, only that it’s interesting. Decisions about truth are, necessarily, the province of the faithful.\” (Robert Farrar Capon, The Romance of the Word, 309)
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