MAN'S SEARCH FOR HIMSELF: MODERN AND BIBLICAL IMAGES
Leo Scheffczyk
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“There are germs of truth even in the most remote areas of human thought, because the human spirit cannot, even in a conscious departure from divine truth, cease to be stamped by that very Truth to which it still must bear witness.”
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“Freedom is something like the other side of the coin of love: where love is at work, freedom must be presupposed; where the highest love is realized, there, too, is the highest realization of freedom.”
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“Listen to the immensely impressive nineteenth psalm (2-5): ‘The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament proclaims his handiwork. Day pours out the word to day, and night to night imparts knowledge; not a word nor a discourse whose voice is not heard; through all the earth their voice resounds, and to the ends of the world, their message.’”
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“The divine Thou, toward which humanity is always moving, is love itself.”
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