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"Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the Resurrection."
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"Doubters only doubt what they doubt."

"Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible."

"Doubt never brings anything better, Doubt only gets the goodies of doubt! Shake your doubt!"

"Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt."

"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt."
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"The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and the road to salvation can only be the return of the sensible finite into the intelligible infinite."

"The work with which we embark on this first volume of a series of theological studies is a work with which the philosophical person does not begin, but rather concludes."

"Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man."

"To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love, occurs in such a way that it is truly the creature that provides the response, with its own nature and its natural powers of love."

"If one does away with the fact of the Resurrection, one also does away with the Cross, for both stand and fall together, and one would then have to find a new center for the whole message of the gospel."

"But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation."

"If God wishes to reveal the love that he harbors for the world, this love has to be something that the world can recognize, in spite of, or in fact in, its being wholly other."

"Thus it is necessary to commence from an inescapable duality: the finite is not the infinite."

"It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as one's treasure will not win one anyone's favours; one rather risks finding oneself outside everyone's camp... Beauty is the word that shall be our first."
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