Saturday, April 11, 2020

Seizing heaven

In the Gospel story, the passionate, the outsized, the out-of-control have a better shot at seizing heaven than the contained, the calculating, and those of whom this world approves.          
                              Thomas Cahill, How the Irish Saved Civilization


 

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