Quotes
Authors
Matthew Levering
"How can we know the living God and attain to everlasting union with God? This is really the only question of life. Kreeft's dialogue with Aquinas shows us what it means--existentially, not solely academically--to learn from a saint." --
Matthew Levering
#Saint Quotes
#Dialogue Quotes
“Comedy is a necessity to get through life with the fewest scars. Humor is the best antidote to help relieve all struggles.”
“Take us generally as a people, we are neither lazy nor idle; and considering how little we have to excite or stimulate us, I am almost astonished that there are so many industrious and ambitious ones to be found - although I acknowledge, with extreme sorrow, that there are some who never were and never will be serviceable to society. And have you not a similar class among yourselves?”
“Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness.”
“Why do 'slow down' and 'slow up' mean the same thing? Why is the third hand on the watch called the second hand?”
“There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.”
“Making art is like humour - very moment dependent.”
“It is all your desires that you see, when you think. But when your mind is quiet, without desire, you are complete and as wonderful as you have always been.”
“A felicitous but unproved conjecture may be of much more consequence for mathematics than the proof of many a respectable theorem.”