The Joy of Being Wrong Quotes

“The doctrine of original sin is the doctrine according to which divine forgiveness makes known the accidental nature of human mortality, thus permitting an entirely new anthropological understanding.”
― James Alison, The Joy of Being Wrong: Original Sin Through Easter Eyes

“I naturally think that my desire is mine, is of me, that I am it's subject and I know what I want. But so to think is not to see that desire is making me.

The me is a highly mutable construct, radically dependent on the desires of others.

The failure to recognize is not a mistake about something of which the ‘me’ might be conscious, but is a failure to rest peaceably on what made it possible for there to be a conscious “me” at all.”
― James Alison, The Joy of Being Wrong: Original Sin Through Easter Eyes