Christianity

  1. At the moment of doing a good deed, resisting temptation, or coming from Confession, we think we are good. In other words, we commit a sin of pride, putting ourselves above others because we cannot forgo the comparison. We pity the sinners who are worse than we are. Of what value then is virtue? Unaware that I was treading the path of St. Augustine, I had hit upon one of Christianity’s key problems.
    Czesław Miłosz
  2. If one rejects the idea of punishments and rewards after death as indecent (what sort of shallow transaction is that?) and if history of Christianity raises doubts …; if dogma is out of harmony with scientific thought - then one must uncover a different dimension where the contradictions can change key and find new validity. This dimension exists parallel to biology or physics; it does not inhibit them.
    Czesław Miłosz