“Christianity and Literature” in Christian Reflections

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Christians are meant to imitate God and not, first of all, to express themselves. ‘Thus St. Augustine and Rousseau both write Confessions: to the one his own temperament is a kind of absolute (au moins je suis autre); to the other, the self is “a narrow house too narrow for thee to enter–oh, make it wide. It is in ruins–oh, rebuild it.”