“Why do we marry, why take friends and lovers? Why give ourselves to music, painting, chemistry or cooking? Out of simple delight in the resident goodness of creation, of course; but out of more than that, too. Half earth's gorgeousness lies hidden in the glimpsed city it longs to become.” GivingEarthLyingCoursesSimpleCitiesHalfCreationPaintingLoversGoodnessCookingDelightChemistryResidentsLovers And Friends Author:Robert Farrar Capon
“If God seems to be in no hurry to make the problem of evil go away, maybe we shouldn't be, either. Maybe our compulsion to wash God's hands for him is a service he doesn't appreciate. Maybe - all theodicies and nearly all theologians to the contrary - evil is where we meet God. Maybe he isn't bothered by showing up dirty for his dates with creation. Maybe - just maybe - if we ever solved the problem, we'd have talked ourselves out of a lover.” IfsProblemHandsSeemsPainSufferingEvilCreationLoversAppreciateContraryDirtyGoing AwayTheologianCompulsionBotheredShowing UpProblem Of Evil Book:The Romance of the Word: One Man's Love Affair with Theology : Three Books Source: The Romance of the Word: One Man's Love Affair with Theology : Three Books
“That, you know, is why the world exists at all. It remains outside the cosmic garbage can of nothingness, not because it is such a solemn necessity that nobody can get rid of it, but because it is the orange peel hung on God's chandelier, the wishbone in His kitchen closet. He likes it; therefore, it stays. The whole marvelous collection of stones, skins, feathers, and string exists because at least one lover has never quite taken His eye off it, because the Dominus vivificans has his delight with the sons of men.” KnowsMenWorldLoveWholeEyeAgeTakenSonLoversStonesSkinsRemainsDelightLikesKitchenHis EyesCollectionsStringsCosmicHungMarvelousNothingnessClosetsOrangeFeathersOne LoveGarbageNever QuitSolemnGarbage CansChandeliersWishbones Author:Robert Farrar Capon
