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"And through Him to reconcile to Himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through the blood of His Cross." – St Paul Col 1:20

"The individual who is animated by true charity labours skilfully to discover the causes of misery, to find the means to combat it, to overcome it resolutely" – Pope Benedict XVI

"Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking." – Keynes

"If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts: but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties." – Francis Bacon

"The righteous shall live by faith." – St Paul, Romans 1:17

"God's love, which was so great that it burst the boundaries of God's inner life and poured itself forth in creation, is the ultimate source of the meaning of everything that exists." – George Weigel

When Jesus was taken before Pilate, the world of facts and the world of Truth came face to face in immediate and implacable hostility. It is a scene appallingly distinct and over-whelming it its symbolism, such as the worlds history had never before and has never since looked at. (John 18:38)

The discord that lies at the root of all human life from its beginning, in virtue of its very being, having both existence and awareness, took here the highest form that can possibly be conceived of human tragedy.

In Pilates famous question, What is Truth?, lies the entire meaning of history: the exclusive validity of the deed; the prestige of State and war; the all-powerfulness of success and the pride of eminent fitness.

Jesus answered with silence, and in that silence answers with that other question that is decisive in all things of religion – what is actuality? (what is the world of facts)

For Pilate actuality was all, for Him nothing. Were it anything, pure religiousness could never stand up against history and fact, or sit in judgement on active life. Or if it does, it ceases to be religion.

"My kingdom is not of this world."

That is the final meaning of the moment in which Jesus and Pilate confronted each other. In the one world, the historical, the Roman caused the Galilean to be crucified – that was His destiny. In the other world, Rome was cast for perdition and the Cross became the pledge of Redemption – that was the 'will of God' – Spengler (my translation)

"At the bottom of the heart of every human being, from earliest infancy until the tomb, there is something that goes on indomitably expecting, in the teeth of all experience of crimes committed, suffered, and witnessed, that good and not evil will be done to him. ... In those who have suffered too many blows, in the slave for example, that place in the heart from which the infliction of evil evokes a cry of surprise may seem to be dead. But it is never quite dead; it is simply unable to cry out any more. It has sunk into a state of dumb and ceaseless lamentation.  And even in those who still have the power to cry out, the cry hardly ever expresses itself, either inwardly or outwardly, in coherent language. That is all the more inevitable because those who most often have occasion to feel that evil is being done to them are those who are least trained in the art of speech. Nothing is more frightful than to see some poor wretch in the courts stammering before a magistrate who keeps up an elegant flow of witticisms." - Simone Weil

"Those who suffer from injustice most are least able to articulate their sufferings... the silent majority, if released into language, would not be content with the perpetration of the conditions which have betrayed them. But this notion hangs on a special conception of what it means to be released into language; not simply learning the jargon of an elite, fitting unexceptionally into the status quo, but learning that language can be used as a means of changing reality." - Adrienne Rich

"Nothing lasting is founded on force. " - Napoleon

"The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known for a man is nowhere so well bewrayed as by his manners." Spencer

"Hatred ever kills, love never dies. Such is the vast difference between the two. What is obtained by love is retained for all time. What is obtained by hatred proves a burden in reality for it increases hatred." - Gandhi

"The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either- but right through every human heart. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained. And even in the best of all hearts, there remains asmall corner of evil" -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The art of transposing truths is one of the most essential and least understood. What makes it difficult is that, in order to practice it, one has to have placed oneself at the centre of the truth and possessed it in all its nakedness, behind the particular form in which it happens to have found expression. Furthermore, transposition is a criteria of truth. A truth that cannot be transposed isn't a truth; in the same way that what doesn't change its appearance according to the point of view isn't a real object, but a deceptive representation of such. – Simone Weil
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"You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you." - Trotsky
 * The one thing this man said which even thoughful conservatives agree with.

"Therefore be ye perfect like your Father in Heaven. ... He shines His light on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the wicked and the just." - Christ, Sermon on the Mount
 * I find it most pleasing that our only non negotiatable policy reflects this deepest of Christian mysteries.