The light shines incomprehensibly
The light shines in the darkness. And the darkness cannot understand it, control it, name it, manipulate it, or master it.
I want you to use me
When Augustine says that God alone is to be enjoyed, and everything else — including human beings — used, he does not mean that everything besides God is worthless.
Finding the joy of God’s kingdom
For many years I skimmed over the Sermon on the Mount as an example of Jesus’ hyperbolic teaching without engaging it as a key to a deeper relationship with God.
Nothing is really Caesar’s
For Jesus, God and the emperor are so far apart that a competition between them is meaningless.
The hope of glory
In Romans 8, St. Paul develops the contrast between present sufferings and future glory.