
Yielding Control: Irenaeus of Lyon On What It Means to Be a Created Being
“To create belongs to God’s goodness; to be created belongs to human nature.”
“To create belongs to God’s goodness; to be created belongs to human nature.”
“And even if what you want to accomplish in the world were the most amazing feat: you shall acknowledge the lily and the bird as your teachers…”
“What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?”
“The happy life is this – to rejoice to you, in you, and for you. That is it and there is no other.”
“It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.”
“My friends, all I’m trying to say is that if we are to go forward today, we’ve got to go back and rediscover some mighty precious values that we’ve left behind.”
“Although men have a common destiny, each individual also has to work out his own personal salvation for himself in fear and trembling.”