Weil: social causes

Wednesday, May 15, 2019
    Commemoration of Charles Williams, Spiritual Writer, 1945
Meditation:
    If they had been thinking of that land from which they had gone out, they would have had opportunity to return. But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city.
    —Hebrews 11:15-16 (ESV)
Quotation:
    Social enthusiasms have such power today, they raise people so effectively to the supreme degree of heroism in suffering and death, that I think it is as well that a few sheep should remain outside the fold in order to bear witness that the love of Christ is essentially something different.
    ... Simone Weil (1909-1943), Waiting for God, Emma Craufurd, tr., Putnam, 1951, p. 81 (see the book)
    See also Heb. 11:15-16; Luke 12:32; Phil. 3:20; Heb. 12:22-24; 13:14; Rev. 21:1-2
Quiet time reflection:
    Take my eyes off the world’s affairs, Lord, so that they might focus on the Kingdom. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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