Thursday, August 18, 2011

Is anxiety idolatry?

Anxiety is failure to pray to the right person. Throughout man's history he has unceasingly prayed to himself in the form of anxiety and worry.

Whenever a man is ruled by a spirit of autonomy, he is then capable essentially of self prayer only. He worries, frets, and cudgels his brains in order to ferret out the secret of salvation within himself…Autonomy is marked by anxiety.

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