
God is Beauty (Christopher West) | Ep. 334
Pints With Aquinas
What Are You Looking For?
We only get in trouble with the beautiful and good things of creation, be it a beer or a salty thing on our tongue. These things get us in trouble when we expect them not to be sacraments of something greater. When we posit our ultimate pleasure uimate fulfilment in them, then what is meant to be an icon becomes a recipe for cynicism. Whatever we idolize, we'll eventually despise, cause it cannot realize what we want it to. And you think of the cynicism. What am i looking for? I'm just looking for the satisfaction of my yearnings. So i would say the same experience sensually could be had by one who's idolizing these things and
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