Quotes of: Alan Keyword

The aim of all Christian education, moreover, is to train the believer in an adult faith that can make him a "new creation", capable of bearing witness in his surroundings to the Christian hope that inspires him.

The Sacrament Of Charity: Sacramentum Caritatis

Mental acuity of any kind comes from solving problems yourself, not from being told how to solve them.

A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form

A good problem is something you don't know how to solve. That's what makes it a good puzzle and a good opportunity.

A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form

Providence is wiser than you, and you may be confident it has suited all things better to your eternal good than you could do had you been left to your own option.

The Mystery of Providence

Men cannot expect to do ill and fare well, but to find that done to them which they did to others.

Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible: Complete and Unabridged in One Volume

Still smiling she carried the TV through the doorway; then she gave it the strongest heave she could manage... When it hit Alan's oversized brick barbecue and the glass front of the TV smashed, Leslie didn't think she'd ever heard a more satisfying s...

The Summerhouse

We are all living history, and it’s hard to say now what will be important in the future. One thing’s certain, though: if we throw it away, it’s gone.

This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All

Totally without hope one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live. Hell is hopelessness. It is no accident that above the entrance to Dante's hell is the inscription: "Leave behind all hope, you who enter here.

Theology of Hope

When we meet God in the gospel, we first encounter him as a stranger, come to rescue us from a danger we did not even realize we were in.

Pilgrim Theology: Core Doctrines for Christian Disciples

Only when we start with the gospel — the most controversial point of Christian faith — are we ready to talk about who God is and how we know him.

Pilgrim Theology: Core Doctrines for Christian Disciples

We do not read the Bible somewhere off by ourselves in a corner; we read it as a community of faith, together with the whole church in all times and places.

Pilgrim Theology: Core Doctrines for Christian Disciples

Our social and political tasks, if we take them seriously, loom larger than life. Yet infinite responsibility destroys a human being because he is only a man and not god." ~ p.23

Theology of Play

The Servant who really studies his Master gradually becomes like his master; gradually learns that he himself is the one who in the end does all the work and has all the power.

Theology's Strange Return

The unqualified affirmation of the univeral will of salvation has radically changed the way of conceiving the mission of the Church in the world. . . . The work of salvation is a reality which occurs in history.

A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, and Salvation

Justice in a fallen world is not equality of outcome but equal treatment under a fair law.

What is the Mission of the Church?: Making sense of social justice, Shalom and the Great Commission

Take the fact that you were created to love. Your heart can find real joy only through love - through loving and being loved.

What Happens When I Pray

God does not suffer out of deficiency of being, like created beings. To this extent he is 'apathetic'. But he suffers from the love which is the superabundance and overflowing of his being. In so far he is 'pathetic'.

The Trinity and the Kingdom

At synods, I usually wait about a week before I speak. First I listen. I feel the temperature. I listen to what has been said, what has not been said, and what I think needs to be said at that point.

Godfried Danneels

The word survivor suggests someone who has emerged alive from a plane crash or a natural disaster. But the word can also refer to the loved ones of murder victims, and this was the sense in which it was used at a four-day conference in early June at ...

Godfried Danneels

Instead of being just a church that welcomes and receives by keeping the doors open, let us try also to be a church that finds new roads, that is able to step outside itself and go to those who do not attend Mass, to those who have quit or are indiff...

Pope Francis

I see the church as a field hospital after battle. It is useless to ask a seriously injured person if he has high cholesterol and about the level of his blood sugars. You have to heal his wounds. Then we can talk about everything else.

Pope Francis