In Christ, For The First

The Christian Response Is Contained In These Two Fundamental Dogmas: That Of The Trinity And That Of The Incarnation. In The Trinitarian Dogma God Is One, Good, True, And Beautiful Because He Is Essentially Love, And Love Supposes The One, The Other, And Their Unity.

Christian Obedience, By Its Very Nature, Has A Heroic Character.

But The Issue Is Not Only Life And Death But Our Existence Before God And Our Being Judged By Him. All Of Us Were Sinners Before Him And Worthy Of Condemnation.

Wonder — The Enthusiastic Ardor For The Sublimity Of Being, For Its Worthiness To Be An Object Of Knowledge — Promises To Become The Point Of Departure For Genuine Insight Only Where It Has Reached The Stage In Which The Subject, Overwhelmed By The Object, Has, As It Were, Fused Into A Single Point Or Into Nothing.

Not Longer Loved Or Fostered By Religion, Beauty Is Lifted From Its Face As A Mask, And Its Absence Exposes Features On That Face Which Threaten To Become Incomprehensible To Man.