Exploring Catholic Theology Quotes

“Christianity is not a set of private convictions that we cultivate inwardly or whisper among ourselves. It is the message that the whole world needs to hear. We who have heard it must become agents of subversion and transformation.”
― Robert E. Barron, Exploring Catholic Theology: Essays on God, Liturgy, and Evangelization

“no one in the biblical tradition ever is granted an experience of God without being subsequently sent. Scriptural religion is a religion of mission.”
― Robert E. Barron, Exploring Catholic Theology: Essays on God, Liturgy, and Evangelization

“one’s deepest sense of freedom is coincident with an embrace of the God who is the ground of one’s being.”
― Robert E. Barron, Exploring Catholic Theology: Essays on God, Liturgy, and Evangelization

“No country, leader, political party, culture, civilization, moral ideal, or rival god can compete with the one God.”
― Robert E. Barron, Exploring Catholic Theology: Essays on God, Liturgy, and Evangelization

“The liturgical person discovers who he is in the context of a community that listens to and explains the Bible and acts in accord with it. In this, he stands opposed to those whose identity is shaped by the heroes, ideals, and norms of the environing secular culture and to those whose sense of self is formed by the texts and practices of other religions.”
― Robert E. Barron, Exploring Catholic Theology: Essays on God, Liturgy, and Evangelization

“if we really want to change the current course of our culture and challenge its guiding ideas, then we need to start with the author of that culture. That means examining man himself.”
― Robert E. Barron, Exploring Catholic Theology: Essays on God, Liturgy, and Evangelization

“In his 1999 Letter to Artists, John Paul II wrote that “beauty is the visible form of the good, just as the good is the metaphysical condition of beauty.” There is “an ethic, even a ‘spirituality’ of artistic service which contributes [to] the life and renewal of a people,” because “every genuine art form, in its own way, is a path to the inmost reality of man and of the world.”
― Robert E. Barron, Exploring Catholic Theology: Essays on God, Liturgy, and Evangelization

“Freedom is not unmitigated spontaneity but the ordered pursuit of the good in accord with the deepest desire of the free subject.”
― Robert Barron, Exploring Catholic Theology: Essays on God, Liturgy, and Evangelization

“theodicy”
― Robert E. Barron, Exploring Catholic Theology: Essays on God, Liturgy, and Evangelization

“noncompetitively”
― Robert E. Barron, Exploring Catholic Theology: Essays on God, Liturgy, and Evangelization