isaiah from john 17

The only reason God would have had for creating us was not to get the cosmic love and joy of relationship (because he already had that) but to share it.

If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies. Yet the distance makes no difference; he is praying for me.

We know the Incarnation mysteriously unites all of humankind to God and one another, but so often the lines of Christianity feel like they do nothing but divide us.

If the church joins the world, there is no need for the world to join the church.

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