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It is divine forgiveness that we need, since no sinner of us all knows the full malice of sin.
The power of names and the sacredness of the name of God are concepts we inherited from our Jewish forebears, and the particular importance of the Name of Jesus is made perfectly clear in the scriptures.
Choosing to do God's will and experiencing the spiritual freedom that followed was my greatest joy and the source of tremendous interior strength.
Recently I was asked at a public discussion of crime and punishment at which I was a speaker whether I thought it was right that the government (in Britain) had made it illegal for an employer to ask a prospective employee whether he had a criminal record and, if so, its nature and extent.
On the last day of class in one of my sections of Art and Catholicism, after we covered the necessary questions regarding the upcoming final exam, a student asked why I believed in God.
"Solitude," wrote Jacques Maritain, "is the flower of life in community."