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That would be the triumph of what might be called a Christianity without God.
Alain Badiou • The True Life
doctrine and theology follow practice.
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
If He who in Himself can lack nothing chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed.
C. S. Lewis • The C. S. Lewis Bible: For Reading, Reflection, and Inspiration
Marsiglio of Padua (1270-1342), on the contrary, inaugurated the new form of opposition to the Pope, in which the Emperor has mainly a role of decorative dignity.
Bertrand Russell • History of Western Philosophy
Mysticism, the interior dialogue with a personal yet ineffable God, is not something peripheral to the human condition. It is central to knowing the human person, and the tensions built into the human encounter with the infinite are the key to the drama of human life. We cannot really know others unless we know them as persons called to communion w
... See moreGeorge Weigel • Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II
His personal wish, he once said, was to live and teach so that there should be a new conception of God in the world, a change in the very meaning of the word.
Madame de Salzmann • The Reality of Being
In the Christian faith it’s almost a philosophical principle that the universal is known through the particular and the abstract through the concrete.
Tish Harrison Warren • Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life
Are we not living in an age known more for emotion than reason, for tolerance than truth, for endless seeking than solid answers?
John P. Cush • Nothing But You, Lord: Reflections on the Priesthood and Priestly Formation through the Lens of Bishop Robert Barron
Church is something more and something other than an external institutionalization and organization of ideas. He had understood that Christianity is not a system of