In the final end, moral evil will serve the supreme aim of the world, the glorification of God, in as much as it reveals His mercy in forgiving and His justice in punishing.
-St. Augustine
@chrismwojcik David Foster Wallace refers to this zen state of thoughtless focus as the essence of athletic genius. A sort of “blindness and dumbness”, as he puts it, wherein the gift of athleticism can act freely and unrestrained.
@LandsharkRides Isn’t the imposition of a superior order by man merely nature declaring itself in us? Are we not a part of the natural order which we are said to critique?
Death, my friends, is to the just man what sleep is to the tired laborer who is glad of the approach of night, which will bring him rest after the hardships of the day.
-St. Vianney