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Quotes by Theologian
"Thus first of all in His own person He sanctified, restored, and blessed human nature."
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"A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing."
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"The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers."
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"God is the last link of the chain, but He is the first also."
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"Each atom of the Holy Spirit is intelligent, and like all other matter has solidity, form, and size, and occupies space."
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"Sincerity is like traveling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves."
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"A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day."
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"One's task is not to turn the world upside down but to do what is necessary at the given place and with a due consideration of reality."
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"To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love, occurs in such a way that it is truly the creature that provides the response, with its own nature and its natural powers of love."
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"Lord, whatsoever this day may bring, Thy name be praised. Be gracious unto me and help me. Grant me strength to bear whatsoever Thou dost send, And let not fear overrule me. I trust Thy grace, and commit my life wholly into Thy Hands. Whether I live or whether I die, I am with Thee and Thou art with me. Lord, I wait for Thy salvation, and for the coming of Thy Kingdom. Amen."
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"That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell."
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"Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence."
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"I will for ever, at all hazards, assert the dignity, independence, and integrity of the English bar; without which, impartial justice, the most valuable part of the English constitution, can have no existence."
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"Every one should find some suitable time, day or night, to sink into his depths, each according to his own fashion. Not every one is able to engage in contemplative prayer."
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"Men have never been good, they are not good and they never will be good."
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"The supernatural birth of Christ, his miracles, his resurrection and ascension, remain eternal truths, whatever doubts may be cast on their reality as historical facts."
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"I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art."
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"The Epistle to the Romans is an extremely important synthesis of the whole theology of St. Paul."
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"The New Testament presents, in its way, the same union of the divine and human as the person of Christ. In this sense also 'the word became flesh, and dwells among us.'"
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"Romanists tell us that the Pope is the vicar of Christ; that he is his successor as the universal head and ruler of the Church on earth. If this is so, he must be a Christ."
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"Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer."
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"Earthly goods deceive the human heart into believing that they give it security and freedom from worry. But in truth, they are what cause anxiety."
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"If you fall seventy times a day, rise seventy times and return to God so that you will not fall too often."
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"Love is a binding force, by which another is joined to me and cherished by myself."
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"He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being."
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"To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own."
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"Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith."
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"Language... has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone."
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"Work is a substitute religious experience for many workaholics."
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"It was seldom that I attended any religious meetings, as my parents had not much faith in and were never so unfortunate as to unite themselves with any of the religious sects."
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"Often when He comes, He finds the soul occupied. Other guests are there, and He has to turn away. He cannot gain entry, for we love and desire other things; therefore, His gifts, which He is offering to everyone unceasingly, must remain outside."
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"The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread."
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"Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it."
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"Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind."
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"Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still."
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"A healthy human environment is one in which we try to make sense of our limits, of the accidents that can always befall us and the passage of time which inexorably changes us."
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"The Galatians are severely censured for giving heed to false doctrines, and are called to pronounce even an apostle anathema, if he preached another gospel."
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"In spite of the polls, the fact is that American Muslims are very happy and they thrive in this country."
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"If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song."
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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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"The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism."
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"However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights."
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"I have never made a threat. I've never made a threat, never expressed a threat, never - I've never - I would never threaten violence ever, because I am a man of peace, dedicated to peace."
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