If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.
The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?
To God what is God's, to Caesar what is Caesar's. To humans—what?
That conflict between the reach for the divine and the lure of earthly things was to be the central problem of the Middle Ages.
The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back to the need of a religious solution.
Basically, there are two paths you can walk: faith or fear. It's impossible to simultaneously trust God and not trust God.
You can’t have two worlds in your hands and choose emptiness.
The sin of fallen man is this: Man seeks the benefits of God while at the same time fleeing from God Himself.
[Buddhism and Christianity] are in one sense parallel and equal; as a mound and a hollow, as a valley and a hill. There is a sense in which that sublime despair is the only alternative to that divine audacity. It is even true that the truly spiritual and intellectual man sees it as sort of dilemma; a very hard and terrible choice. There is little else on earth that can compare with these for completeness. And he who does not climb the mountain of Christ does indeed fall into the abyss of Buddha.
The Lord wants us to follow His righteous life, but yet we have to exist in the 21st century. You can't be going about riding a bicycle and to travel the world... that is not smart.
There is nothing more perplexing in life than to know at what point you should surrender your intellect to your faith.
Your money, or your life. We know what to do when a burglar makes this demand of us, but not when God does.
The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life, or of the work And if it take the second must refuse A heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.
The soul is "torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does not discard the temporal because of familiarity.
