Re. The Ten Commandments The first table of the law is summarized by the first great commandment, “You shall love the Lord your God with all of your heart, mind, soul and strength,” whereas the last six commandments constitute the scope of the second great commandment, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” All of […]
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Self-control is like a muscle. If you are called upon to exercise self-control often in the course of a day, you get tired and you don’t have enough strength to exercise as much self-control in the evening. But love is the opposite. The more you love, the more you can love. A person who has […]
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In his masterpiece, My Bright Abyss, the poet Christian Wiman writes, In any true love— a mother’s for her child, a husband’s for his wife, a friend’s for a friend— there is an excess energy that always wants to be in motion. Moreover, it seems to move not simply from one person to another but […]
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