Matthew Levering quotes

“How can we know the living God and attain to everlasting union with God? This is really the only question of life. Kreeft's dialogue with Aquinas shows us what it means--existentially, not solely academically--to learn from a saint.”
-- Matthew Levering

#Saint Quotes #Dialogue Quotes

“"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." This is such a reassuring thing. The world is in God's hands; it is his world. We sinners have messed things up and the amount of human division and cruelty is so terrible, but fortunately God is God.”
-- Matthew Levering

#Heaven Quotes #World Quotes #Earth Quotes

“I think that the authority of Scripture must be accepted by Catholics and Protestants, and that if our doctrinal judgments are not measured by Scripture, then we'll be found lacking, since Scripture communicates divine revelation to us.”
-- Matthew Levering

#Thinking Quotes #Catholic Quotes #Scripture Quotes

“Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet, but as a man.”

“And I myself a Catholic will be, So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee. Hail, Bard triumphant! and some care bestow On us, the Poets militant below.”

“Let's get on our knees and pray. I don't know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ballistics gel?”

“If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were.”

“As to religion a moderate stock will satisfy me. She must believe in god and hate a saint.”

“To gain your own voice, forget about having it heard. Become a saint of your own province and your own consciousness.”

“He who desires nothing but God is rich and happy.”

“A dialogue among civilizations can be seen as a dialogue between the individual and the universal.”

“I ran into an extraordinary doctor. He got up inside my head and figured out how my brain processed things, what my core values were, what my inner dialogue was.”

Source : "Darrell Hammond Book: Comedian Reveals Childhood Abuse, Psychiatric Treatment". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 7, 2011.

“Dialogue is character and character is plot.”