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Once, during a council of Italian bishops, a fellow bishop cited an expression from De Abraham by Saint Ambrose: “When it comes to bestowing grace, Christ is present; when it comes to exercising rigor, only the ministers of the Church are present, but Christ is absent.”
The Name of God Is Mercy
Pope Francis and Oonagh Stransky
They were ghosts, after all, and happy endings don’t haunt anyone.
Ghosts of Harvard
Francesca Serritella
On the other hand, ‘Knock and it shall be opened.’ But does knocking mean hammering and kicking the door like a maniac? And there’s also ‘To him that hath shall be given.’ After all, you must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can’t give. Perhaps your own passion temporarily destroys the capacity.
A Year With C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
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