Occupation: Theologian Birth: August 12, 1905 Death: June 26, 1988
Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herse….
Faith means the fundamental response to the love that has offered itself up for me. It thus becomes clear that faith is ordered primarily to the inco….
What the Father gives is the capacity to be a self, freedom, and thus autonomy, but an autonomy which can be understood only as a surrender of self t….
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….
The One, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, these are what we call the transcendental attributes of Being, because they surpass all the limits of….
In Christ, for the first time, we see that in God himself there exists--within his inseparable unity--the distinction between the Father who gives an….
St. Paul would say to the philosophers that God created man so that he would seek the Divine, try to attain the Divine. That is why all pre-Christian….
Only the Christian religion, which in its essence is communicated by the eternal child of God, keeps alive in its believers the lifelong awareness of….
If God wishes to reveal the love that he harbors for the world, this love has to be something that the world can recognize, in spite of, or in fact i….
There is a moment when the interior light of the "eyes of faith" becomes one with the exterior light that shines from Christ, and this occurs because….
Her (Mary's) Son first had to be the Child of the Father in order then to become man and be capable of taking up on his shoulders the burden of a gui….
Every experience of beauty points to [eternity]..
Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for example, with the social commitmen….
God defines himself as "I am who I am", which also means: My being is such that I shall always be present in every moment of becoming..