Off the Cutting Room Floor: "Immortal Horrors or Everlasting Splendours"

I would have liked to include this C.S. Lewis quote in my sermon when I was talking about people being eternal and investing in them.

C.S. Lewis: “It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree, helping each other to one or other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the awe and the circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations—these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit—immortal horrors or everlasting splendours. Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses.”

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Snippet: "Tenacity and Humility"

Snip·pet | ˈsnipit | noun a small piece or brief extract.

I heard this yesterday, but it would have been good for my weekend sermon. It’s Justin Giboney on The Church Politics Podcast on the May 6 episode (with some editing for clarity).

“And that's why I say the culture war…issues aren't necessarily not worth fighting for. There may be a battle in how we go back and forth, but do we have to go into that battle pretending that we are without sin and that the other side is responsible for everything bad? Or can we go to that battle with tenacity, but also with intellectual honesty, historical context, and fight for what’s right, while still trying to reach the persuadable people who are actually listening and trying to find out what's right or wrong? I think sometimes we just focus on the extreme folks.”

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