From a Jesuit:
We cannot find anything that does
not originate in God. Each
tiny thing that we encounter, especially each human person, is directly related
to the Godhead in all its glory.
-- James Schall, S.J., The Order
of Things (2007), p.188
Some decades earlier, G.K. Chesterton put a similar thought
more epigrammatically:
Man cannot love mortal things.
He can only love immortal things --
for an instant.
Oddly, although that phrasing wears the badge of
Chestertonian love of paradox, this fragment seems -- paradoxically -- more
intuitively convincing. Father
Schall’s pensée is nice, is pious, but might well be met with doubt. With Chesterton, you suddenly just see it.
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