Saturday, October 11, 2008

Quote from Ramon Llull (Raymund Lully)

Blessed Ramon Llull (1235-1315), Missionary to the Muslims and Martyr

"Death has no terrors for a sincere servant of Christ who is laboring to bring souls to a knowledge of the truth."


Can you figure out why this guy is my hero? I mean, he combines the best elements of catholic Christianity, evangelical zeal, and a missio-centric spirituality focused on the unreached--especially Muslims. What more could you want? Oh yeah: he was a married man and lay missionary.

(Abu Daoud is listening to The Division Bell by Pink Floyd. Have you all heard this album? I really like it, what do you think?)

2 comments:

Odysseus said...

Their 1977 album Animals is their best work. The guitar solo in the song "Dogs" is sorrow itself and never fails to break my heart.

Abu Daoud said...

I have Animals and I don't actually much like it. I do like Wish you were here, which is also early I think.