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Quotes by Theologian
"In principle the great religions of the world do not differ as much as they appear to."
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"Sacramental listening reminds us that current suffering isn't the end of the story. God loves us deeply, and the vision for the future is vaster and more magnificent than we could ever imagine. In these moments of profound human presence, we are awakened to the divine presence and see that the kingdom of God is coming and yet is already here."
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"The big truth for men is that often we have to leave home in the first half of life before we can return home at a later stage and find our soul there."
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"We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning."
May,
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"Give us this day our daily taste. Restore to us soups that spoons will not sink in and sauces which are never the same twice. Raise up among us stews with more gravy than we have bread to blot it with Give us pasta with a hundred fillings."
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"But on the other hand, while disclaiming any change in my opinions, I desire equally to disclaim the representations of those opinions which have been put forward in some quarters."
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"God, to redeem us at the deepest portion of our nature - the urge to love and be loved - must reveal His nature in an incredible and impossible way. He must reveal it at a cross."
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"Whether something is old-fashioned or not doesn't resolve the question of whether it's true or not. I can see the temptation of simply thinking, 'Well, there's a cultural mainstream which flows neatly in one direction. You just align with it'. And that really won't do."
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"To help all created things, that is the measure of all our responsibility; to be helped by all, that is the measure of our hope."
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"We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages - we don't throw it away all at once."
Life,
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"Only man has dignity; only man, therefore, can be funny."
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"I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend, for when at worst, they say, things always mend."
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"The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it."
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"The universal Mind contains all knowledge. It is the potential ultimate of all things. To it, all things are possible."
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"People should always have something which they prefer to life."
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"If the mystery of the Trinity is the template of all reality, what we have in the Trinitarian God is the perfect balance between union and differentiation, autonomy and mutuality, identity and community."
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"All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain."
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"It certainly is the duty of every true Christian, to esteem himself a stranger and pilgrim in this world; and as bound to use earthly blessings, not as means of satisfying lust or gratifying wantonness, but of supplying his absolute wants and necessities."
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"Praise now is one of the great duties of the redeemed. It will be their employment for ever."
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"Prayer does not fit us for the greater work, prayer is the greater work."
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"True spirituality is not taught, it's caught. Once our sails have been unfurled to the Spirit, henceforth our motivation for the journey toward holiness and wholeness is immense gratitude."
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"For whatever be the knowledge which we are able to obtain of God, either by perception or reflection, we must of necessity believe that He is by many degrees far better than what we perceive Him to be."
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"Great was the name of Abraham, but all his Sons were not accepted; only Isaac was in the Covenant."
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"When you get your, 'Who am I?', question right, all of your, 'What should I do?' questions tend to take care of themselves"
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"Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and thoughtless state of life, and yields to the lust of the flesh, not considering that this lust is really the forbidden tree."
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"Humanity could only have survived and flourished if it held social and personal values that transcended the urges of the individual, embodying selfish desires - and these stem from the sense of a transcendent good."
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"The Bible, as a revelation from God, was not designed to give us all the information we might desire, nor to solve all the questions about which the human soul is perplexed, but to impart enough to be a safe guide to the haven of eternal rest."
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"The Church, as Jesus seems to be defining it, is the gathering of accepted brokenness. It's not the gathering of the saved."
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"It is crucial that Jesus is led by the Spirit. There are two wildernesses, two darknesses in the spiritual journey. One you go into by your own stupidity, by your sin, blindness, ignorance and mistakes. We all do that. But there's another darkness. The holy darkness is the darkness that God leads us into, through and beyond. This is a necessary darkness for the journey. In a certain sense, God's darkness is a much better teacher than light. There comes a time when you have to either go deeper into faith or you will turn back, when you have to live without knowing or you lose faith altogether. So we have the Spirit leading Jesus into the wilderness, to face the essential darkness."
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"Then, in the next place, we must know that every being which is endowed with reason, and transgresses its statutes and limitations, is undoubtedly involved in sin by swerving from rectitude and justice."
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"There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows."
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"Prayer is a thought, a belief, a feeling, arising within the mind of the one praying."
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"Every child is a thought in the mind of God, and our task is to recognize this thought and help it toward completion."
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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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"What can we say about a marketing culture that so openly feeds and colludes with obsession? The Disney empire has developed this to an unprecedented degree of professionalism."
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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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"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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"Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility."
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"True masters deconstruct as well as reconstruct."
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"Das GlA1?4ck ist das einzige, das sich verdoppelt, wenn man es teilt."
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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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"Every time God forgives us, God is saying that God's own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with us."
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"We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does not allow us to impose such sufferings on them. It is our duty to make the whole world recognize it. Until we extend our circle of compassion to all living things, humanity will not find peace."
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"Happiness? That's nothing more than health and a poor memory."
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"Prayer is often a temptation to bank on a miracle of God instead of on a moral issue i.e. it is much easier to ask God to do my work than it is to do it myself. Until we are disciplined properly we will always be inclined to bank on God's miracles and refuse to do the moral thing ourselves. It is our job and it will never be done unless we do it."
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"Heavy pillars, carved from the rock, bear the roof. Slowly, one's eyes become accustomed to the dim light; then they can make out marvelous representations from Indian mythology carved on the walls."
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"Prayer for many is like a foreign land. When we go there, we go as tourists. Like most tourists, we feel uncomfortable and out of place. Like most tourists, we therefore move on before too long and go somewhere else."
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"I hope we can inaugurate a new humility in our use of religious language, which for me is the very proof that it is authentic."
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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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