Like Plato, we must take a certain initial step, one which allows us finally to realize that our major task is not to make our world but to respond to a reality that is.


“Man’s contribution, then, lies in the fact that man is able to cry out, “Christ, save me!” Man’s freedom is summed up in the entreaty, “Accepting that all is grace, I ask you for grace.” This is how we completely take into account both the fact that all is grace and the fact that, for its effect, Christ’s grace depends on my freedom, too.”
― Generating Traces in the History of the World: New Traces of the Christian Experience
― Generating Traces in the History of the World: New Traces of the Christian Experience

“When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.”
― White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era
― White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era
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