Sister Joan Chittester, a Carmelite Nun, in one of her talks let rip with this beauty:
" The only way to be truly wicked in this world is not to break the law, but to follow it to the very letter…"
It made me want to both laugh and cry.
Why was so much of the religion I was brought up on so focussed on "keeping the law to the very letter," especially when Paul was so clear it was a futile exercise?
3 responses so far ↓
1 urbs // Dec 18, 2006 at 6:26 pm
I must be a friggin saint then
2 JOn // Dec 19, 2006 at 4:00 pm
From what I read and hear from what has happened to you mate, you probably are.
3 Angry and shallow // Dec 29, 2006 at 7:40 pm
Mate it’s all part of the myth that christians are meant to be nice, polite people. CS Lewis said we are not meant to be nice but new. New people break the law as they stand up for what is right rather than what is polite.
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