12 quotes found
“If I have a theological virtue, it is curiosity or inquisitiveness.”
“Judgement immobilizes, only hopeful love leaves an opening for God's alternative future.”
“Well, first I would ask them if they had read the Bible; then I would ask them if they had understood it.”
“...the triune God will indwell the world in a divine way - the world will indwell God in a creaturely way.”
“When the crucified Jesus is called "the image of the invisible God," the meaning is that THIS is God, and God is like THIS.”
“In Christian terms, evangelization and humanization are not alternatives. Nor are the 'vertical dimension' of faith and the 'horizontal dimension' of love for one's neighbor and political change.”
“Totally without hope one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live. Hell is hopelessness. It is no accident that above the entrance to Dante's hell is the inscription: "Leave behind all...”
“The motive that impels modern reason to know must be described as the desire to conquer and dominate. For the Greek philosophers and the Fathers of the church, knowing meant something different: it...”
“God does not suffer out of deficiency of being, like created beings. To this extent he is 'apathetic'. But he suffers from the love which is the superabundance and overflowing of his being. In so f...”
“Our social and political tasks, if we take them seriously, loom larger than life. Yet infinite responsibility destroys a human being because he is only a man and not god." ~ p.23”
“Ever since the beginning of the middle-class era, with its faith in progress, belief in progress has dominated the upbringing of children too. Childhood now came to be understood only as the prelim...”
“In the cross of Christ God is taking man dead-seriously so that he may open up for him the happy freedom of Easter. God takes upon himself the pain of negation and the God forsakenness of judgement...”
