Quotes About Phariseeism

Una de las funciones de nuestro villano debe ser permitirnos adoptar el papel de víctima y reclamar nuestra superioridad moral. Proyectaremos en él todo lo que somos incapaces de reconocer en nosotros mismos y demonizaremos de acuerdo con nuestros intereses particulares. Es la aritmética básica del fariseísmo.

The Beatitudes simply cannot be "good news" if they are understood as a set of "how-tos" for achieving blessedness. They would then only amount to a new legalism. They would not serve to throw open the kingdom—anything but. They would impose a new brand of Phariseeism, a new way of closing the door—as well as some very gratifying new possibilities for the human engineering of righteousness.