Theologian Quotes

The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.
The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.
The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.
The things that we love tell us what we are.
The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.
There is but one Church in which men find salvation, just as outside the ark of Noah it was not possible for anyone to be saved.
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment; confession of sins without any omission; and satisfaction by means of good works.
Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.
To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.
To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.
To live well is to work well, to show a good activity.
To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.
Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.
Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.
Wonder is the desire for knowledge.
I will for ever, at all hazards, assert the dignity, independence, and integrity of the English bar; without which, impartial justice, the most valuable part of the English constitution, can have no existence.
In the New Testament, religion is grace and ethics is gratitude.
Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges.
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