March 12th, 2001
"Men need God because their precarious and contingent lives can find final significance only in his almighty and eternal purposes and because their fragmentary selves must find their ultimate center only in his transcendent love. If the meaning of men’s lives is centered solely on their own achievements these too are vulnerable to the twists and turns of history, and their lives will always teeter on the abyss of pointlessness and inertia. And if men’s ultimate loyalty is centered in themselves then the effect of their lives on others around them will be destructive of that community upon which all depend. Only in God is their an ultimate loyalty that does not breed injustice or cruelty, and a meaning from which nothing in heaven or on earth can separate us."
Langdon Gilkey in Shantung Compound
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