But if I built you a city, would you let me? Would you tear it down?
Ok, so usually I don't really like reading for Cath Fran...in fact, so far, I can count the number of readings I've liked on one hand. Sister Dawn Nothwehr's "The Franciscan View of the Human Person" being my favorite by far. But anyway, the jist is that I don't like the readings that much...However, in one of the supplemental books we had to get, "The Christian Vision of Humanity" by John R. Sachs, which is the reading I'm reading right now, I read a passage that I really really liked, one that struck me as a good way of seeing things. So, I decided that I'm going to write it in here:
"Edith Stein, a Carmelite philosopher who was gassed by the Nazis, once said that those who search for the truth are looking for God whether they know it or not. Modifying this slightly we could say that whenever we really love this world or any part of it, truly and honestly for what it really is; whenever we respect it, hope for it, care for it; whenever we attend to the needs of the least of our brothers and sisters--we are meeting and loving God, whether we realize it or not."
I dunno...I just liked that.
"Edith Stein, a Carmelite philosopher who was gassed by the Nazis, once said that those who search for the truth are looking for God whether they know it or not. Modifying this slightly we could say that whenever we really love this world or any part of it, truly and honestly for what it really is; whenever we respect it, hope for it, care for it; whenever we attend to the needs of the least of our brothers and sisters--we are meeting and loving God, whether we realize it or not."
I dunno...I just liked that.