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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."
55
"Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory."
45
"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."
45
"Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God."
42
"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."
41
"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."
40
"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."
36
"There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship."
35
"No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do."
34
"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."
34
"The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity."
32
"The essence of religion consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence."
32
"The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children."
32
"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."
31
"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."
29
"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."
29
"He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today."
27
"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!'."
26
"It is the grace of God, that shows and condemns the sin that humbles us."
26
"A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol."
26
"Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures."
24
"The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity."
23
"Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is."
22
"He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love."
22
"This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people'"
21
"Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth."
20
"The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened."
Past,
20
"Many talk much, and indeed well, of what Christ has done for us: but how little is spoken of what he is to do in us! and yet all that he has done for us is in reference to what he is to do in us."
19
"Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing - so supreme that, when we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code but a character."
19
"Thus it is necessary to commence from an inescapable duality: the finite is not the infinite."
19
"Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight."
19
"Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone."
19
"I have been benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself."
God,
18
"Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned."
18
"Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary."
18
"Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy."
17
"Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world."
17
"There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God."
17
"Jealousy is the grave of affection."
17
"The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings."
17
"I have to go on being a priest and bishop, that is, to celebrate God and what God has done in Jesus, and to offer in God's name whatever I can discern of God's perspective on the world around - something which involves both challenge and comfort."
17
"When the great promise of the Spirit was fulfilled on the day of Pentecost, it was fulfilled not in reference to the apostles only."
16
"Grace tried is better than grace, and more than grace; it is glory in its infancy."
16
"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."
15
"Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life."
14
"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."
14
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