Uma coisa que caracteriza a acção do homem mau é que ele, se tem que renunciar a alguma coisa, exige que todo o mundo também o faça. Essa não é uma atitude cristã. O cristão pode achar conveniente renunciar a toda a espécie de coisas por motivos particulares: o casamento, comer carne, tomar cerveja, ou ir ao cinema; mas se começar a dizer que essas coisas são más em si mesmas, ou desprezar os que dela se servem, está no caminho errado.
It is this most basic human loneliness that threatens us and is so hard to face. Too often we will do everything possible to avoid the confrontation with the experience of being alone, and sometimes we are able to create the most ingenious devices to prevent ourselves from being reminded of this condition. Our culture has become most sophisticated in the avoidance of pain, not only our physical pain but our emotional and mental pain as well. We not only bury our dead as if they were still alive, but we also bury our pains as if they were not really there. We have become so used to this state of anesthesia, that we panic when there is nothing or nobody left to distract us. When we have no project to finish, no friend to visit, no book to read, no television to watch or no record to play, and when we are left all alone by ourselves we are brought so close to the revelation of our basic human aloneness and are so afraid of experiencing an all-pervasive sense of loneliness that we will do ...
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