For the Fun of it: Karl Stern

Here is a sentence that made me laugh out loud:

"....Many of us read entire libraries of philosophy and theology from St. Augustine to Karl Adam.

Before we know it we have attained a kind of mental obesity instead of spiritual growth."

Saints for Now,  edited by Clare Boothe Luce, chapter on St Therese of Lisieux by Karl Stern, p.326

Karl Stern on Jesus Christ

        1.)   "Someone once remarked that you should try experimentally to live for one day as if the Gospel were true, even if you do not believe it. In the same way I invite you to think of the nature of Man if Christ had been God-Man and died for your and my salvation.The whole study of anthropology as conceived by philosophers and psychologists is at once deepened in a very peculiar way. It is as if a great, but albeit two-dimensional, picture received a third dimension and came to life. If, as Auden once remarked, it is the function of the poet to introduce order into chaos, then God is our poet."

        2.)   "Christianity teaches that the climax of human perfection is to love infinitely and to be able to be hated infinitely. This degree of maturity has been reached perhaps only once in human history, in the person of Jesus Christ."

The Pillar of Fire, Karl Stern, pp. 207- 8;  p. 249