The Frenchman and The Heart of the Matter

described by Graham Greene in Brighton Rock is Charles Péguy.

"The sinner is at the very heart of Christianity. No one is more competent to understand Christianity - no one, except the saint." Charles Péguy

Wonderful and Appalling

strange and beautiful

"'There was a man, a Frenchman, you wouldn't know about him, my child, who had the same idea as you. He was a good man, a holy man, and he lived in sin all through his life, because he couldn't bear the idea that any soul  could suffer damnation... This man decided that if any soul was going to be damned, he would be damned too. He never took the sacrament, he never married his wife in church. I don't know, my child, but some people think he was - well, a saint. I think he died in what we are told is mortal sin - I'm not sure: it was in the war: perhaps...You can't conceive, my child, nor can I or anyone the...appalling...strangeness of the mercy of God.... It was a case of greater love hath no man than this that he lay down his soul for his friend...The church does not demand that we believe that any soul is cut from mercy.'" - Graham Greene, Brighton Rock

Identity III

What if the things we can truly call ourselves is just our mistakes, our flaws?!



the most beautiful thought of them all - adorable

Identity II

Another aspect: "That picture you've been painting doesn't look a thing like you. I'll agree that it's a nice try, but, when your paint is dry, we're all just little icons, super you and super I."



The man in black, who is just another icon, doesn't leave us with this pessimistic view, because there is this solution he offers and one that more than suits me. There is hopefully this 'pretty angel', the person who loves us for ourselves.

Identity I

Identity - since it is also related to authenticity, which is a great topic in art, it is certainly something of interest.

in the traumatic event

Problem

"I think the oddest thing about advanced people is that, while they are always talking about things as problems, they have hardly a notion of what a real problem is." - Chesterton

Yesterday sitting in a restaurant in Aachen suddenly ambulances, the police and several fire engines were rushing outside and stopped at the house opposite. The street was blocked, a fire ladder was extended, yet nothing seemed to have happened, but us having wonderful food and some entertainment - Thank God!

Koning Liefde

"You simply hope that your music reaches people. That they like it and then giving something back in this way, that's simply fantastic.

Give me time to reflect, le bilan, I was glad that I had a place in life, doubting and asking questions and still learning, righting mistakes and trying to change the tide. I can only give what I have to offer. I can only tell the little I know. I've been bargaining - opportunist, but you do not negotiate with love." - Tourist LeMC