Theology should be like poetry…
A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do.
–Karen Armstrong (1944-
Pregnant silence…
You know how it is in the symphony when you are listening to the symphony, the last notes die away, and there’s often a beat of silence in the auditorium before the applause begins. It’s a very full and pregnant silence. Now theology should bring us to live into that silence, into that pregnant pause.
–Karen Armstrong (1944-
Words alone are not enough…
It is obvious that words alone are not going to help someone who is naked and hungry. Someone whose faith does not go beyond words is useless. Such faith is dead without works of Christian love that alone can bring it back to life.
–Venerable Bede (c. 673-735)
Surrender and gratitude…
Jesus does not demand great actions from us but simply surrender and gratitude.
–Saint Thérèse of Lisieux (1873-1897)
From Mary, full of grace, we…
True freedom is found in our loving embrace of the Father’s will. From Mary, full of grace, we learn that Christian freedom is more than liberation from sin. It is freedom for a new, spiritual way of seeing earthly realities. It is the freedom to love God and our brothers and sisters with a pure heart, and to live a life of joyful hope for the coming of Christ’s Kingdom.
–Pope Francis (1936-
Christ was dependent on Mary…
By his own will Christ was dependent on Mary during Advent: he was absolutely helpless; he could go nowhere but where she chose to take him; he could not speak; her breathing was his breath; his heart beat in the beating of her heart. In the seasons of our Advent — waking, working, eating, sleeping, being — each breath is a breathing of Christ into the world.
–Caryll Houselander (1901-1954)
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