#theology

"Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia."

"Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know."

"Not bad, not bad at all,"Diotallevi said. "To arrive at the truth through the painstaking reconstruction of a false text."

"We worship…the powers that speak to our souls, if it seems they do. We do so knowing there is more to the world, and the half-world, and perhaps worlds beyond, than we can grasp. We always knew that. We can’t even stop children from dying, how would we presume to understand the truth of things? Behind things? Does the presence of one power deny another? [p. 176]"

"The ultimate story of success: When a nobody, who has never once in his entire life known the feeling of being remembered or respected, suddenly snaps and becomes a world dictator. On one hand it sounds just, but on the other, it illustrates the reason why a prosperity message has and needs its limitations."

"Theological formation is the gradual and often painful discovery of God's incomprehensibility. You can be competent in many things, but you cannot be competent in God."

"Theology, philosophy, metaphysics, and quantum physics are merely ways for God to have his smart people believe in him"

"Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company."

"Matthew 10:34“Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword."

"God gives us not only the truth but also the ability to believe it; not only the new thing to see but also the new eye to see it with."

"To respect a mystery is to make way for the answer."

"The Church does not dispense the sacrament of baptism in order to acquire for herself an increase in membership but in order to consecrate a human being to God and to communicate to that person the divine gift of birth from God."