Religion: Words of the Week

"We moderns are contemptuous of outward appearance; it does not follow that we are humble. Clothes, after all, are only (as it were) a sacramental manifestation of the instinct we all have, to hide our defects from the world's scrutiny. The 'folly of the Cross,' the placarding of our human weakness, is something more intimate than the mere stripping off of outward paraphernalia.

"It means being ready to let the world see you as the fool whom God sees, whenever a suitable occasion arises. And it is humiliating to think how much of our...

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