‘If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth – only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin with and, in the end, despair’.
C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
‘Your word is pardon and gentleness for the penitent, Your word is holy instruction, eternal teaching; It is light to brighten, advice to hearten; it is voice of hope, fire that burns, way, truth, sublime splendour, Life…eternity…But no temple alone your battle field; you range the world with your sword upraised, the redeeming cross’.
St Oscar Romero
‘Grant O my God that all minds may unite in the truth and all hearts in charity’.
Pope St Paul VI
‘We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness’.
Thomas Jefferson.
‘Each year, I find myself asking the same question: ‘What are we celebrating at Christmas?’ The tree, the decorations, the parties, what are they all for? The answer comes in today’s Gospel: ‘The Word became flesh and lived amongst us’. Everything else is a celebration of that. Through Christ, God has united our nature to his so that we could share his divinity and immortality. In doing so, our nature and human dignity have been elevated to a level we constantly forget and deny. Here is the meaning of the Lord’s nativity and the heart of the Christian life’.
Fr Billy Swan
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