Thursday, July 27, 2006

More from Bernanos

"Sometimes I think of Satan as trying to get hold of the mind of God, and not merely hating it without understanding, but understanding it the wrong way round; thus unknowingly struggling against the current of life, instead of swimming without it; wearing himself out in absurd terrifying attempts to reconstruct in the opposite direction, the whole work of the Creator."

1 Comments:

Blogger Quin Finnegan said...

That is a great point. Perhaps it should be expected, given its paradoxical nature, the whole stumbling block thing ...

5:16 PM  

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