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“Whatever may be the mysteries of life and death, there is one mystery which the cross of Christ reveals to us, and that is the infinite and absolute goodness of God. Let all the rest remain a mystery so long as the mystery of the cross of Christ gives us faith for all the rest.”

Giving May Long God Christ Mystery Goodness Crosses Absolutes Infinite Life And Death Mystery Of Life Goodness Of God

Book:Out of the Deep: Words for the Sorrowful: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition

Source: Out of the Deep: Words for the Sorrowful: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition

“The closer we are to God, to divine attributes - such as absolute truth, goodness, and beauty - the more we wonder. When we separate ourselves from truth, goodness, and beauty, we lose wonder and become cynical. The Enlightenment was basically the narrowing of our vision to a purely scientific, empirical, rationalistic worldview, screwing down the manhole covers on us so we became squinting underground creatures.”

Loses Wonder Vision Divine Creatures Goodness Enlightenment Absolutes Attributes Cynical Worldview Absolute Truth Squinting

Author:Peter Kreeft

“May your mind be thoroughly impressed with the absolute necessity of universal virtue and goodness, as the only sure road to happiness, and may you walk therein with undeviating steps.”

Mind May Walks Steps Virtue Goodness Universal Absolutes Impressed Road To Happiness

Book:Letters of Mrs. Adams: the wife of John Adams

Source: Letters of Mrs. Adams: the wife of John Adams

“Some people talk as if meeting the gaze of absolute goodness would be fun. They need to think again.”

People Ifs Thinking Needs Would Be Fun Goodness Absolutes Meetings

Book:A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis

Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis

“If you cross-section anyone's life from one angle and then another, what constitutes goodness looks different each time. It's not an absolute.”

Ifs Looks Different Goodness Crosses Absolutes Angle Sections

Author:Catherine Brady

“All the children seem to be coming out quite intelligent, thank goodness. It would have been such a bore to be the mother of morons, and it’s an absolute toss-up, isn’t it? If one could only invent them, like characters in books, it would be much more satisfactory to a well-regulated mind.”

Ifs Mind Wells Children Has Beens Book Character Seems Would Be Mother Goodness Absolutes Intelligent Coming Out Bores Moron Toss

Book:The Nine Tailors

Source: The Nine Tailors

“God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want to hide from.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Want Needs Made Stills Would Be Fun Enemy Danger Comfort Goodness Absolutes Safety Meetings Terror Supreme Allies Wrong Way Great Safety

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Fight for the value of your person. Fight for the virtue of your pride. Fight for the essence of that which is man: for his sovereign rational mind. Fight with the radiant certainty and the absolute rectitude of knowing that yours is the Morality of Life and that yours is the battle for any achievement, any value, any grandeur, any goodness, any joy that has ever existed on this earth”

Men Mind Persons Earth Joy Values Fighting Knowing Virtue Pride Morality Battle Goodness Achievement Essence Absolutes Rational Certainty Sovereign Grandeur Radiant Rectitude

Book:Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left. ALGERNON: We have. JACK: I should extremely like to meet them. What do they talk about? ALGERNON: The fools? Oh! about the clever people of course. JACK: What fools.”

People Should Courses Left Wish Fool Goodness Sick Absolutes Meetings Clever Cleverness Nuisance

Book:The Picture of Dorian Gray: The Importance of Being Earnest ; The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Works of Oscar Wilde

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray: The Importance of Being Earnest ; The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Works of Oscar Wilde

“The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have become incapable of discerning right from wrong. Everything can be explained away, especially by journalists. Life is one great moral mush--sophistry washed down with Chardonnay. The ordinary citizens, thank goodness, still adhere to absolutes.... It is they who have saved the republic from creeping degradation while their 'betters' were derelict.”

“Peace comes from the absence of fear, from a consciousness of trust, from a deep, underlying faith in the absolute goodness and mercy, the final integrity of the universe in which we live, and of every cause to which we give our thought, our time and our attention.”

Giving Universe Causes Attention Consciousness Integrity Goodness Mercy Absolutes Finals Absence Our Time Our Thoughts

Author:Ernest Holmes