Today God stands ready to give us what we don’t want. But what we don’t want is immeasurably better than that for which we ask.
Tag: St Augustine
A Sign of Contradiction
...the surprise in Acts is not the conflict, not the willingness of Christians to ape the empire. The surprise is not division but reconciliation. The surprise is not that Christians are afflicted with the same passions that lead to war in the world but that we struggle against them.