Jacques

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[Jacques @DieWareJacques]

There is enough light for those who desire to see, and enough darkness for those of a contrary disposition.

Pascal, Pensées, 182

[Jacques @DieWareJacques]

This was given by Plato as the most valid reason for the creation of the world - that good works should be effected by a good God.

Augustine, CoG, 11:21

[Jacques @DieWareJacques]

There is a useful purpose in the obscurity of the purpose; it may serve to exercise our humility or to undermine our pride.

Augustine, CoG, 11:22

[Jacques @DieWareJacques]

A picture may be beautiful when it has touches of black in appropriate places; in the same way the whole universe is beautiful, if one could see it as a whole, even with its sinners, though their ugliness is disgusting when they are viewed in themselves.

Augustine, CoG, 11:23

[Jacques @DieWareJacques]

Thus I, who set out to find my Ideal, came back rejoicing that I had lost my Shadow.

George MacDonald, Phantastes

[Jacques @DieWareJacques]

Past tears are present strength.

George MacDonald, Phantastes

[Jacques @DieWareJacques]

Self will come to life even in the slaying of self; but there is ever something deeper and stronger than it, which will emerge at last from the unknown abysses of the soul

George MacDonald, Phantastes

[Jacques @DieWareJacques]

Indeed, my ideal soon became my life; whereas, formerly, my life had consisted in a vain attempt to behold, if not my ideal in myself, at least myself in my ideal.

George MacDonald, Phantastes

[Jacques @DieWareJacques]

George MacDonald, Phantastes

[Jacques @DieWareJacques]

Yet I know that good is coming to me - that good is always coming; though few have at all times the simplicity and the courage to believe it.

What we call evil, is the only and best shape, which, for the person and his condition at the time, could be assumed by the best good.

[Jacques @DieWareJacques]

There was something noble in him, but it was a nobleness of thought, and not of deed. He may yet perish of vile fear.

Phantastes, George MacDonald

[Jacques @DieWareJacques]

No shining belt or gleaming moon, no red and green glory in a self-encircling twin-star, but has a relation with the hidden things of a man's soul, and, it may be, with the secret history of his body as well.

George MacDonald, Phantastes

[Jacques @DieWareJacques]

@MichelleDLesley That line between being faithful in a storm and encouraging bad behaviour is often hard to see

[Jacques @DieWareJacques]

@BENZOTOOIE Daredevil Season 3 comes to mind.

[Jacques @DieWareJacques]

@AngAesthetics There's also a disconnect from Orthodoxy's more lax approach to apologetics and rationalism, which they consider more of a Western thing, and, again, Western-based Orthodox adherents who can't get rid of their (Protestant) apologetical and rationalist mindset.

[Jacques @DieWareJacques]

@AngAesthetics Does it have to do with the English nature of this discussion? Most normal Orthodox Christians are Eastern European. Maybe North African.

English adherents likely converted through the internet and communicate solely through the internet. And there lies the problem.

[Jacques @DieWareJacques]

The penitent thief is the only person who addresses Jesus as just Jesus, without any title or qualifier.

Can you think of another example?

[Wes Huff @WesleyLHuff]

Justification gets you out of Egypt, but sanctification gets Egypt out of you.

[Jacques @DieWareJacques]

Whatever experience comes your way, accept it as a blessing, in the certainty that nothing can happen without God.

The Epistle of Barnabas, 19

[Jacques @DieWareJacques]

@RichardDawkins

[Jacques @DieWareJacques]

Even if your plan, your theories, were absolutely true, the holding of them with sincerity, the trusting in this or that about Christ, or in anything he did or could do, the trusting in anything but himself, his own living self, is a delusion

The Truth in Jesus, George MacDonald