Herbert McCabe famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

If you do not love, you will not be alive; if you love effectively, you will be killed.
-- Herbert McCabe

#Love You #Alive
When God forgives our sin, he is not changing his mind about us; he is changing our mind about him.
-- Herbert McCabe

#Forgiving #Mind #Sin
People who think they have no belief quite often say they want to pray but they do not know who or what they could be praying to. Aquinas would not say to such people, 'Ah, but you see, if you became a believer, a Christian, we would change all that. You would come to understand to whom you are praying.' Not at all. He would say to such people, 'If you became a Christian you would stop being surprised or ashamed of your condition. You would be happy with it. For faith would assure you that you could not know what God is until he reveals himself to us openly.'
-- Herbert McCabe

#Christian #Thinking #People
Theology is that discipline whereby we stop talking nonsense about God.
-- Herbert McCabe

#Talking #Discipline #Nonsense
Poetry is language trying to become bodily experience.
-- Herbert McCabe

#Trying #Language #Poetry Is

I don't know much, but I know I love you... that may be all there is to know.
But Ash, I can't continue to want you from a distance. To love you and not have you. I'd end up in jail if anyone tried to touch you and God forbid you tried to date someone.
I love you girl...to the moon and back.
I love you Rush Finlay. You are going to be the best husband and father the world has ever known. One day our sonâ€™s wife will be thankful that her husband will have had you for a role model. Sheâ€™ll be lucky because of you. Because you will have raised our son to be the man that you are. Heâ€™ll love her completely because heâ€™ll know how.
That's when you know for sure somebody loves you. They figure out what you need and they give it to you - without you asking.
The only urgent thing in life is the pursuit of love. You get that one right, and you've solved the mystery.
Staying with him. Letting him touch you, hold you, GOD. It's eating me alive. You may be keeping Sawyer from hating me but you're only making me hate him
Comforters for our todays / Guardians of memories / Keeping our youth and yesterdays alive / Comrades with one history.
I believe we lose immortality because we have not conquered our opposition to death; we keep insisting on the primary, rudimentary idea: that the whole body should be kept alive. We should seek to preserve only the part that has to do with consciousness.
The love of Christ both wounds and heals, it fascinates and frightens, it kills and makes alive, it draws and repulses. There can be nothing more terrible or wonderful than to be stricken with love for Christ so deeply that the whole being goes out in a pained adoration of His person, an adoration that disturbs and disconcerts while it purges and satisfies and relaxes the deep inner heart.

Herbert McCabe famous quotes

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