Journey to Reality Quotes

“Christianity is profoundly different from every other religion in history precisely because the Trinity solves this problem of the One and the Many on the basis that God's nature is love. No other religion has ever made a claim like that.”
― Zachary Porcu, Journey to Reality: Sacramental Life in a Secular Age

“If God weren't a Trinity, there would be no such thing as love.”
― Zachary Porcu, Journey to Reality: Sacramental Life in a Secular Age

“We are asking about the arche of all being: the source, the principle, the thing that is being itself. This is the highest and most important of all questions; there is nothing the answer does not affect.”
― Zachary Porcu, Journey to Reality: Sacramental Life in a Secular Age

“The arche is itself the source of all reality and being. It is, you might say, "being itself" or "reality itself.”
― Zachary Porcu, Journey to Reality: Sacramental Life in a Secular Age

“The question of meaning in life is perhaps the most practical question of all.”
― Zachary Porcu, Journey to Reality: Sacramental Life in a Secular Age

“If you decide which parts of Christianity you want to follow and which parts you don't, then the ultimate basis for the religion is yourself.”
― Zachary Porcu, Journey to Reality: Sacramental Life in a Secular Age

“Sacramental Christianity, on the other hand, is a process of participation mediated through a living community of persons.”
― Zachary Porcu, Journey to Reality: Sacramental Life in a Secular Age

“Christianity did not have its beginning in a book but in a person - the man Jesus.”
― Zachary Porcu, Journey to Reality: Sacramental Life in a Secular Age

“We must rediscover the sacramental understanding of ancient Christianity in light of - and clearly distinguished from - the religious culture in which we find ourselves, rather than assuming the two are compatible.”
― Zachary Porcu, Journey to Reality: Sacramental Life in a Secular Age

“Many skeptics, ex-Christians, and atheists have in fact never heard the gospel as it was authentically believed by the early Christians.”
― Zachary Porcu, Journey to Reality: Sacramental Life in a Secular Age

“We’ve established that the Bible is not the source of Christianity and that the life of sacramental Christianity does not consist primarily of studying the Bible but of participating in the sacraments and the life of the Church. That”
― Zachary Porcu, Journey to Reality: Sacramental Life in a Secular Age

“but it seems there is a grand, cosmic order to reality that resembles a dance or musical masterpiece.”
― Zachary Porcu, Journey to Reality: Sacramental Life in a Secular Age