Avery Dulles quotes

Avery Dulles quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The Church therefore has one inescapable task: To lift up Christ. When she seeks to lift herself up she becomes weak, but when she acknowledges her own weakness and proclaims her Lord, she is strong.”
-- Avery Dulles

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“If the Pope were to deny that the death penalty could be an exercise of retributive justice, he would be overthrowing the tradition of two millenia of Catholic thought, denying the teaching of several previous popes, and contradicting the teaching of Scripture.”
-- Avery Dulles

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“Faith is unflinching trust in something divine.”
“Faith does not increase, nor does it decrease; because a diminution in it would be unbelief.”
“I think church and state should remain entirely separate at all costs, and that the decision of religious marriage should be of each faith to debate and decide free of political influence.”
“Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I did not feel a particularly strong call to any one subject, but read voraciously and widely and began to find science interesting.”
“People are needed to take up the challenge, strong people, who proclaim the truth, throw it in people's faces, and do what they can with their own two hands.”
“Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful one.”

Source : A. J. Jacobs (2008). “The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible”, p.275, Simon and Schuster
“Chop your own path. Get off the car track”
“Someone once asked me... whether I waited for inspiration. My answer was: "Every day!"”

Source : Aaron Copland (2011). “What to Listen For in Music”, p.27, Penguin
“The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.”

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