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Quotes by Theologian
"But aesthetics is not religion, and the origins of religion lie somewhere completely different. They lie anyway, these roses smell too sweet and the deep roar of the breaking waves is too splendid, to do justice to such weighty matters now."
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"What Christ gives us is quite explicit if his own words are interpreted according to their Aramaic meaning. The expression 'This is my Body' means this is myself."
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"Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that comes to and constitutes us. We mimic the mind of God, so to speak. Or better, we continue and extend it."
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"The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up."
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"But in the life of every man there are influences of a far more real and penetrating character than those which come through the medium of schools or teachers."
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"The Church in England is the Church of England."
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"Many a person who started out to conquer the world in shining army has ended up just getting along. The horse got tired, the army rusty. The goal was removed and unsure."
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"Such an emphasis on the immanence of God as Creator in, with, and under the natural processes of the world unveiled by the sciences is certainly in accord with all that the sciences have revealed since those debates of the nineteenth century."
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"When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, "I can't.""
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"I am sure of God's hand and guidance... You must never doubt that I am thankful and glad to go the way which I am being led. My past life is abundantly full of God's mercy and, above all sin, stands the forgiving love of the Crucified."
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"Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God."
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"To believe in a just law of cause and effect, carrying with it a punishment or a reward, is to believe in righteousness."
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"You cannot contain evil by shaming it, or making people feel guilty, but only by revealing it toward it is, and then seeing the good as better."
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"Teach and practice, practice and teach - that is all we have; that is all we are good for; that is all we ever ought to do."
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"Prayer does not fit us for the greater work, prayer is the greater work."
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"But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere."
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"Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree."
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"I have prayed for years for one good humiliation a day, and then, I must watch my reaction to it. I have no other way of spotting both my denied shadow self and my idealized persona."
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"It is so stupid of modern civilisation to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it."
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"Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise."
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"Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never."
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"Cut your morning devotions into your personal grooming. You would not go out to work with a dirty face. Why start the day with the face of your soul unwashed?"
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"Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb."
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"Thirdly, Death is nothing else but a change of a short and temporary for an unalterable and eternal condition."
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"Every missed rite of passage leads to a new rigidification of the personality."
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"When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith."
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"It's often difficult for us to act compassionately, but sacred art eases the difficulty by ennobling us."
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"At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us."
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"We can no more do without spirituality than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing."
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"Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us."
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"For although Claudius had been accused of gambling and drunkenness, not only were no worse sins laid to his charge, but he had successfully established some claim to being considered a learned man."
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"Prayer is a thought, a belief, a feeling, arising within the mind of the one praying."
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"The higher the hill, the stronger the wind: so the loftier the life, the stronger the enemy's temptations."
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"The scientific perspective of the world, especially the living world, inexorably impresses on us a dynamic picture of the world of entities and structures involved in continuous and incessant change and in process without ceasing."
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"I had assumed that Bush's seemingly inflexible policy to support Sharon was for political reasons of his getting elected. But as to whether he really believes his actions are going to hasten the day of the final conflict, I do not know."
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"Only man has dignity; only man, therefore, can be funny."
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"The universe must exist for the self-expression of God and the delight of God."
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"It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves."
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"The modern period adds social ethics to religions agenda, for we now realize that social structures are not like laws of nature. They are human creations, so we are responsible for them."
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"Who stands fast? Only the man whose final standard is not his reason, his principles, his conscience, his freedom, or his virtue, but who is ready to sacrifice all this when he is called to obedient and responsible action in faith and in exclusive allegiance to God - the responsible man, who tries to make his whole life an answer to the question and call of God."
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"It is not your love that sustains the marriage,but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love."
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"But, I know enough people in that court, through the years, to know one thing: There's always somebody who surprises you, who rises above what they thought they appointed him for, and stays with the separation of powers, and with the right of the law to decide."
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"God is the King. In him exists all legal authority."
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"Christians are usually sincere and well - intentioned people until you get to any real issues of ego, control power, money, pleasure, and security. Then they tend to be pretty much like everybody else. We often given a bogus version of the Gospel, some fast - food religion, without any deep transformation of the self; and the result has been the spiritual disaster of 'Christian' countries that tend to be as consumer - oriented, proud, warlike, racist, class conscious, and addictive as everybody else - and often more so, I'm afraid."
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"With improved historical records, and easier access to them, we actually have better reasons for hating one another, for anger and violence toward one another."
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"True masters deconstruct as well as reconstruct."
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"Prayer is not only asking it is an attitude of heart that produces an atmosphere in which asking is perfectly natural and Jesus says "every one that asketh receiveth.""
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"If you have ever prayed in the dawn you will ask yourself why you were so foolish as not to do it always: it is difficult to get into communion with God in the midst of the hurly-burly of the day."
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