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"If conjugal chastity manifests itself at first as an ability to resist the concupiscence of the flesh, it subsequently reveals itself as a singular ability to perceive, love, and realize those meanings of the "language of the body" that remain completely unknown to concupiscence itself and progressively enrich the spousal dialogue of the couple by purifying, deepening, and at the same time simplifying it." P. 646

"If we assume that the reasons for deciding not to procreate are morally right, the moral problem of the way of acting in such a case remains, and this mode expresses itself in an act that possesses its own intrinsic moral qualification, positive or negative. The first positive corresponds to the "natural" regulation of fertility; the second, negative, corresponds to "artifical contraception." P. 629

"The believer, therefore, never stands apart by himself; he is never alone. In the natural world every human being is born in the fellowship of his parents, and he is therefore without any effort on his own part a member of a family, of a people, and also of the whole mankind. So it is also in the spiritual sphere." P. 495

Bavinck on believers being born into the fellowship of the church.

"Scripture and experience both, on the contrary, teach that the believer is not an external combination of two beings, but that he remains one being, a single self, a single consciousness, heart, and will, and that no two independent beings but rather two groups of desires and dispositions are conflicting inside one and the same person." P. 477.

"In this dramatic moment, Tobias and Sarah, when on the wedding night it was their due ... to speak reciprocally with the "language of the body," they transform this "language" into a single voice. That unison is prayer. This voice, this act of speaking in unison, allows both of them to pass beyond ... the threat of evil and death, inasmuch as they open themselves totally ... to the living God." P. 602

"Both at any rate -- he and she -- together express in the song wonder and amazement not only for the "I" of the other in his or her feminine or masculine "revelation," but also for the love by which this "revelation" is realized." P. 560

"In the texts of the prophets, who see in marriage the analogy of Yahweh's covenant with Israel, the body tells the truth through faithfulness and conjugal love, and, when it commits "adultery" it tells a lie, they commits falsehood." P. 538

Great time this morning remembering the glorious but weighty and prophetic task that being faithful in my marriage is. I pray God helps me walk in the truth.

"Who, reflecting ... can believe in the complete forgiveness of all of his sins? But the church of Christ dares to believe it, and can and may believe it. In humility and excitement of heart it confesses: I believe the forgiveness of sins ... The Gospel informs us that God forgives sins, that He can forgive them and that He does forgive them, because His right has been fully vindicated by Christ." P. 444

"Is not the spousal love with which Christ "loved the church," his Bride, "and gave himself for her" equally the fullest incarnation of the ideal of "continence for the kingdom of God" (see Matt. 19:12)? P. 528

This is a riveting thought and one I need to chew on!

"Is not the spousal love with which Christ "loved the church," his Bride, "and gave himself for her" equally the fullest incarnation of the ideal of "continence for the kingdom of God" (see Matt. 19:12)? P. 528

This is a riveting thought and one I need to chew on!

"Whoever seeks the Christ outside the pale of his word through the Spirit alone loses the norm for testing the spirits and eventually comes to the point of identifying his own spirit with the Spirit of Christ; and whoever studies the word without the Spirit of Christ is studying the portrait while ignoring the person of whom it is a representation. That is why Christ gave both: His word and His Spirit." P. 413

"Believers are in Christ as all things ... of creation and providence are in God. They live in Him as the fish lives in water ... With Him they are crucified, dead, and buried, are raised again, seated at the right hand of God, and glorified. They have put Him on, assumed His form, and show in their body both the suffering and the life of Christ, and are perfected in Him. In short, Christ is all and in all." P. 379

"He managed to sit, without falling, holding tight to one rope with his remaining hand, but when he willed the interface to set the pendulum in motion, nothing happened. The software didn't know how."

AI consciousness attempting to interact with a swing. I found it a provocative line.

"Although Ephesians does not specify it, we can nevertheless add that the church too, united with Christ as the wife with her husband, draws from the sacrament of redemption her whole spiritual fruitfulness and motherhood." P. 509

"There really was no fellowship between us and Christ, but only separation and opposition ... He was just and holy and without any sin, and we were sinners, guilty before the face of God, and unclean from head to foot. Nevertheless, Christ put himself into fellowship with us ... by entering into the fellowship with our sin and death." P. 337.

This is just an excerpt that was lovely on Christ's sacrificial work.

"One can say that the visible sign of marriage "in the beginning," inasmuch as it is linked to the visible sign of Christ and the church on the summit of God's saving economy, transposes the eternal plan of love into the "historical" dimension and makes it the foundation of the whole sacramental order." P. 503

"The same subject, the same person, the same I who humiliated Himself so deeply that He assumed the form of a servant and became obedient unto the death of the cross, already existed in a different form of existence long before His incarnation and humiliation. He existed then in the form of God and thought it no robbery to be equal with God (Phil. 2:6)." P. 298

"The union of the body with the head is above all of an organic nature; it is, to put it simply, the somatic union of the human organism. Biological union is directly built on this organic union, inasmuch as one can say, "the body has life from the head" (even if at the same time, although in another way, the head has life from the body)." P. 479

JPII on somatic unity as he discusses Ephesians 5.