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Quotes by Theologian
"Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder."
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"Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent."
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"The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul."
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"Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace."
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"To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another."
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"Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him."
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"The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of."
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"It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us."
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"To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin."
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"It is a thoroughly anti-christian doctrine that the Spirit of God, and therefore the life and governing power of the Church, resides in the ministry, to the exclusion of the people."
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"How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know."
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"Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once."
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"I remember the Curia said, that's up to the American bishops, not up to Rome."
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"The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible."
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"Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal."
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"Ruling elders are declared to be the representatives of the people."
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"The Godhead consists of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Father is a material being."
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"Grace is everywhere as an active orientation of all created reality toward God."
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"A true servant of God will never teach a false doctrine. He will never deny new revelation. He never will tell you that the canon of scripture is full, or that the New Testament is the last revelation ever intended to be given to man."
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"If the Holy Spirit can take over the subconscious with our consent and cooperation, then we have almighty Power working at the basis of our lives, then we can do anything we ought to do, go anywhere we ought to go, and be anything we ought to be."
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"It is necessary to posit something which is necessary of itself, and has no cause of its necessity outside of itself but is the cause of necessity in other things. And all people call this thing God."
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"A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises."
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"God is a spirit. A spirit is as much matter as oxygen or hydrogen."
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"The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing."
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"Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation."
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"Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man."
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"Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door."
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"Many persons seek community because they are afraid of loneliness...those who take refuge in community while fleeing from themselves are misuing it to indulge in empty talk and distraction, no matter how spiritual this idle talk and distraction may appear...it is precisely such misuse of community that creates deadly isolation of human beings."
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"For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God."
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"You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy."
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"This is God's work. Therefore it must be triumphant. There is no place for misgiving or despondency."
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"A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other."
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"Love must precede hatred, and nothing is hated save through being contrary to a suitable thing which is loved. And hence it is that every hatred is caused by love."
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"If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives."
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"Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence."
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"The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them."
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"Jesus Christ came into my prison cell last night, and every stone flashed like a ruby."
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"In spite of the haze of speculation, it is still something of a shock to find myself here, coming to terms with an enormous trust placed in my hands and with the inevitable sense of inadequacy that goes with that."
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"For even these are no less bestowed on him of pure grace, than are righteousness and salvation themselves."
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"Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves."
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"Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you."
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"If a product is more expensive than another one, and more sustainable in ecology, consumers will not buy it."
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"The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world."
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"Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is but only how He is not."
God,
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"The earthly form of Christ is the form that died on the cross. The image of God is the image of Christ crucified. It is to this image that the life of the disciples must be conformed; in other words, they must be conformed to his death (Phil 3.10, Rom 6.4) The Christian life is a life of crucifixion (Gal 2.19) In baptism the form of Christ's death is impressed upon his own. They are dead to the flesh and to sin, they are dead to the world, and the world is dead to them (Gal 6.14). Anybody living in the strength of Christ's baptism lives in the strength of Christ's death."
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"That the apostolic office is temporary, is a plain historical fact."
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