A Ragamuffin's Journey

21 February 2006

Walking to Heaven backwards

The phrase is from a sermon of Newman's where he writes:

"We advance to the truth by experience of error; we succeed through failures. We know not how to do right except by having done wrong … we grope about by touch, not by sight, and so by a miserable experience exhaust the possible modes of acting till nought is left, but truth, remaining. Such is the process by which we succeed; we walk to heaven backward; we drive our arrows at a mark, and think him most successful, whose shortcomings are the least."
Jeff 3:13 PM

1 Comments:

till nought is left, but truth..

Aye

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