Dietrich von Hildebrand famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Beauty kindles love, and only the one who remains captivated by it, only the one who is intoxicated by it, only the one who remains a lover while he is investigating its essence, can hope to penetrate its essence.
-- Dietrich von Hildebrand

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Better to be a beggar in freedom than to be forced into compromises against my conscience.
-- Dietrich von Hildebrand

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The great mystery of our metaphysical situation, that God is nearer to us than we are ourselves, is manifest in the fact that we cannot even be wholly ourselvesâ€”in the sense of individuality as a unique divine thoughtâ€”until we are reborn in Christ.
-- Dietrich von Hildebrand

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There are really no serious arguments for communion in the hand. But there are the most gravely serious kinds of arguments against it.
-- Dietrich von Hildebrand

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Sex is essentially deep. We become what we do with our bodies, and there is no deeper act than sex.
-- Dietrich von Hildebrand

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Purity perceives and respects the character of sex-its depth, seriousness, intimacy, and true home within wedded love, which alone makes possible the total and mutual gift of self.
-- Dietrich von Hildebrand

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The way to attain the virtue of mercy lies in our constant awareness of being encompassed by mercy.
-- Dietrich von Hildebrand

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One saintly priest attracts more souls to Christ...than do those who lack the imprint of their sacred office
-- Dietrich von Hildebrand

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The field is a halfway house, halfway between the detail of those intimately known places and the ignorance of a landscape view ... The essence of a field is that the cultural accommodates the natural there. The human being makes room for and makes use of those organisms that are not him. In that way the field is a poem to symbiosis, and a human contract with the natural.
All knots that lovers tie Are tied to sever. Here shall your sweetheart lie, Untrue for ever.
Why to mute fish should'st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?
The true heart of all human beings is the lover of what is.
For when success a lover's toil attends,Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends
True, He is infinite Majesty, but He is also infinite Goodness and infinite Love. There can be no greater Lord than God; neither can there be a more ardent lover than He.
One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books.
A good lover will do that, see something worthwhile in you that you never knew was there. And when there's something you don't like to see in yourself a good lover won't see it either.
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Dietrich von Hildebrand famous quotes

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