Costing Not Less Than Everything

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We are all called to the life of holiness and this is costly:

“You cannot be neutral about God. Once you know that he exists and is your Creator you have to respond to him with everything you have. To admit God only into a part of your life, a ‘religious’ part which exists alongside many other parts but has no influence on them, is not really to admit God into your life at all. The Father that Jesus Christ revealed to us and put us in touch with enters into every part of our life (he is Creator and Lord of all) and makes total demands upon is. He is, indeed, revealed in the New Testament as most merciful and understanding (the Father and the Prodigal Son) but also as God – asking everything from those prepared to give him everything.”

John Dalrymple, who died in 1985, was a parish priest in Edinburgh, a lecturer, chaplain of St Andrew’s University, spiritual director and counsellor.