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Quote for the Day

13 Oct 2006 05:56 pm

"It was not an abstract question for me. I wondered: is the point of our life on earth to become like Jesus, or is it to maintain formal affiliation with the Roman Catholic Church? I honestly don't believe God will ask of me, in the day of judgment, "Were you an obedient Catholic? (Or Orthodox, or Presbyterian...)" He will ask me, "Did you love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul and mind? Did you love your neighbor as yourself?" I had made in my life till that point the fundamental error of conceiving of the Church as an end in itself, rather than a means to the end of becoming a saint in Christ," - Rod Dreher on why he has finally left the Roman Catholic Church for Orthodoxy.

There is much in his honest anguish that, to my mind, is symptomatic of true faith.

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