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Quotes by Theologian
"Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark."
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"Never believe that true prayer consists in mere babbling, reciting so many psalms and vigils, saying your beads while you allow your thoughts to roam."
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"The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible."
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"The kingdom of God is a theocracy. And as it is the only form of government which will redeem and save mankind, it is necessary that every soul should be rightly and thoroughly instructed in regard to its nature and general characteristics."
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"All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless, it must be done by the Spirit."
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"All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need."
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"By the God of thy Father who shall help thee, and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts and of the womb."
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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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"Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host."
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"The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity."
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"Our second remark is, that the office is of divine appointment, not merely in the sense in which the civil powers are ordained of God, but in the sense that ministers derive their authority from Christ, and not from the people."
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"When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines."
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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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"The call of God is not just for a select few but for everyone. Whether I hear God's call or not depends on the condition of my ears, and exactly what I hear depends upon my spiritual attitude."
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"Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship."
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"Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate."
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"The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?"
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"A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives."
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"Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate."
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"Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free."
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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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"God the Father and God the Son cannot be everywhere present; indeed they cannot be even in two places at the same instant: but God the Holy Spirit is omnipresent - it extends through all space, with all other matter."
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"All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit."
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"The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the outward sinful act is the result."
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"Reason in man is rather like God in the world."
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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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"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."
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"Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise."
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"It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes."
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"Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once."
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"If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way."
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"Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing."
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"Therefore the elect shall go forth... to see the torments of the impious, seeing which they will not be grieved, but will be satiated with joy at the sight of the unutterable calamity of the impious."
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"Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves."
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"Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood."
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"Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt."
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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 priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors."
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"The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true."
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"As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins."
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"It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business."
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"Rest, rest, shall I have not all eternity to rest."
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"Not in the flight of ideas, but only in action is freedom. Make up your mind and come out into the tempest of the living."
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"Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character."
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"Conscience is the sentinel of virtue."
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"Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires."
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