I Believe in Eternal Life Quotes

“Jesus, who suffered the agony of Gethsemane, comes to our aid, and the power of his consolation is such that life is reborn. It is born again in him who died and rose. Death is the decisive event by means of which the Love that saves reveals itself during the hour of the cross as the ‘womb’ of the sorrows of the world. The resurrection marks the victory of Christ over death which generates the exultation due to the splendour of his glory but, at the same time, calls us to a living encounter and courageous witness of him who is the Risen One.”
― Carlo Maria Martini, I Believe in Eternal Life

“It is in this way that Martini comes to conversion, to the prayer of the heart, to contemplation as constitutive bases to be guided to the most efficacious way of reforming our own life and to spend it in the cause of the Gospel. Reading Martini we seem to hear the echo of that very beautiful prayer of St”
― Carlo Maria Martini, I Believe in Eternal Life

“It is in this way that Martini comes to conversion, to the prayer of the heart, to contemplation as constitutive bases to be guided to the most efficacious way of reforming our own life and to spend it in the cause of the Gospel. Reading Martini we seem to hear the echo of that very beautiful prayer of St Ignatius:”
― Carlo Maria Martini, I Believe in Eternal Life

“We have often drawn from his spiritual teaching to gather the richness of the Gospel message and to translate it into our life experiences. We go to him because he knows as few others how to unite the depth of his content with the ability to express it so as to communicate what attracts and involves the reader either by reason of the argumentative strength of his thought or the intensity of the spiritual experience that he transmits. He speaks to believers and non-believers alike with the authority of a master of the faith who teaches the truths of the Gospel with the immediateness and simplicity of a companion on the way who, as we travel the road together, shares with us the hard work of living them.”
― Carlo Maria Martini, I Believe in Eternal Life

“We have often drawn from his spiritual teaching to gather the richness of the Gospel message and to translate it into our life experiences. We go to him because he knows as few others how to unite the depth of his content with the ability to express it so as to communicate what attracts and involves the reader either by reason of the argumentative strength of his thought or the intensity of the spiritual experience that he transmits. He speaks to believers and non-believers alike with the authority of a master of the faith who teaches the truths of the Gospel with the immediateness and simplicity of a companion on the way who, as we travel the road together, shares with us the hard work of living”
― Carlo Maria Martini, I Believe in Eternal Life