God Without Being Quotes

“I hope the amazed reader will be patient for a while—in order simply to read.”
― Jean-Luc Marion, God Without Being

“Indeed, theological discourse offers its strange jubilation only to the strict extent that it permits and, dangerously, demands of it wokman that he speak beyond his means, precisely because he does not speak of himself. Hence the danger of a speech that, in a sense, speaks against the one who lends himself to it. One must obtain forgiveness for every essay in theology. In all senses.”
― Jean-Luc Marion, God Without Being

“To free "God" from his quotation marks would require nothing less than to free him from metaphysics, hence from the Being of beings.”
― Jean-Luc Marion, God Without Being

“There is nothing surprising in the fact that we may not be able to speak of God; for, if speaking is equivalent to stating a well-constructed proposition, then by definition that which is defined as ineffable, inconceivable, and unnameable escapes all speech. The surprising thing, therefore, is not our difficulty in speaking of God but indeed our difficulty in keeping silent. For in fact, with regard to God, overwhelmingly, we speak. In a sense we speak only about that, and much too much, with neither modesty nor precaution.”
― Jean-Luc Marion, God Without Being

“When a philosophical thought expresses a concept of what it then names “God,” this concept functions exactly as an idol. It gives itself to be seen, but thus all the better conceals itself as the mirror where thought, invisibly, has its forward point fixed, so that the invisable finds itself, with an aim suspended by the fixed concept, disqualified and abandoned”
― Jean-Luc Marion, God Without Being