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Quotes by Theologian
"Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the community."
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"Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory."
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"Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance."
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"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."
30
"Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God."
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"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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"There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship."
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"The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children."
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"In the Muslim world, there are many people who have been vocal and we have been very vocal against extremists. But how to win this battle is an ongoing battle. And we must continue to wage the battle for peace."
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"No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do."
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"We are not going to toy with our religion or any other. Nor are we going to barter. We are here to extend our hands to build peace and harmony."
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"The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity."
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"For I do not seek to understand in order to believe, but I believe in order to understand. For I believe this: unless I believe, I will not understand."
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"We've got to be fair. You can't say a place that has strip joints is sacred ground. We've got to be just. We've got to speak the truth. We've got to have justice for everybody. We're a country of justice for all, not justice for non-Muslims only or some groups and not for others."
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"The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity."
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"A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol."
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"Prior to an individual's encounter with the love of God at a particular time in history, however, there has to be another, more fundamental and archetypal encounter, which belongs to the conditions of possibility of the appearance of divine love to man."
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"In the total expanse of human life there is not a single square inch of which the Christ, who alone is sovereign, does not declare, 'That is mine!'."
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"It is the grace of God, that shows and condemns the sin that humbles us."
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"He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today."
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"Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures."
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"He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love."
15
"Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone."
13
"The essence of religion consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence."
10
"The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened."
Past,
10
"There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God."
10
"Thus it is necessary to commence from an inescapable duality: the finite is not the infinite."
10
"Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary."
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"I believe that in the end the truth will conquer."
9
"Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness."
9
"Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back."
9
"The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings."
9
"The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt."
9
"Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy."
8
"I have been benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself."
God,
8
"We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but these mistakes need not be sins."
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"We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it."
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"If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else."
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"Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world."
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"Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth."
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"Jealousy is the grave of affection."
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"Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned."
7
"It may be that when the angels go about their task praising God, they play only Bach. I am sure, however, that when they are together en famille they play Mozart."
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"This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people'"
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