A Path Through . . .

( Ronald Knox - found here ) “It seems to me that it is very much easier to understand the Gospels, and a great deal of our Lord’s teaching in the Gospels, if we believe that the way of love was meant, not only for a small collection of heroic souls, but for ordinary people like you and me. Above all, if you look at the Sermon on the Mount, and that great fifth chapter of Saint Matthew which is the opening of the Sermon on the Mount, I do not know how you are to find the key to fit it, unless you suppose that our Lord has in mind this contrast between the way of duty and the way of love. He begins by telling his disciples that unless their justice gives better measure than that of the scribes and Pharisees, they shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. That sounds strong; that sounds formidable to start with. And then he proceeds to illustrate that by referring to different points of the moral law in detail, catching up the echoes of Mount Sinai and refashioning its code all throug...