Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread

“God is not bought off by the blood of Christ; he values beyond all creation the love with which it is shed.”

“It is precisely the materiality of things that stand over and against our consciousness— o res mirabilis —that makes us aware of the irreducible otherness of the Person of Christ.”

“God’s will must be incorporated—like food, like bread.”

“The primacy of the order of grace, of God’s own free initiative, far from evacuating human freedom, in fact demands it to the highest degree.”

“The intelligibility of interpersonal relations is determined by the freedom of the person to reveal herself and thus, to allow intimacy.”

“[A]ction is more dramatic, precisely because of the natural love of God and the good lying at the heart of freedom.”

“Life, for Przywara, becomes a doxological act of service where God’s unsurpassable glory is sought and served in all things.”

“Above the magnificent peaks of their universal labor arises another peak, that of the cross of Golgotha.”

“In receiving food from God as the gift of God, man is filled with the divine life itself.”