More Father de Mello

I am pretty upset that this man is dead. I'd love to have a chat with him, and it's also very sad that someone so wise was taken from the world so unexpectedly.

Some bites of wisdom:

"To doubt is infinitely more important than adoration. To question is so much more important than to believe."

"Everywhere people are searching for objects to adore, but I don't find people awake enough in their attitudes and convictions. How happy we would be if terrorists would adore their ideology less and question more. However, we don't like to apply that to ourselves; we think we're all right and the terrorists are wrong. But a terrorist to you is a martyr to the other side."

"The process that we use for making a St. Francis Xavier could be exactly the same process used for producing terrorists."

"What is scripture, then? It's a hint, a clue, not a description. The fanaticism of one sincere believer who thinks he knows causes more evil than the united efforts of two hundred rogues. It's terrifying to see what sincere believers will do because they think they know. Wouldn't it be wonderful if we had a world where everybody said, 'We don't know'?"

"....You miss God because you think you know. That's the terrible thing about religion."

The transcriptions above are taken from HERE.

I looked it up because I was thinking, myself, that the Church may have had something to do with his death. I wouldn't be surprised, although if it's true, it's appalling.