Christian Classics

Language a Weapon against Violence

“There is indeed something healthy in the expression of anger. To repress grievances is certainly bad. Expression and discussion are ways of healing. Psychoanalysis re-lies precisely on this expressive function of language. To hear the anger of other people forces us to confront our wrong-doings, which is the first step towards forgiveness. We must have […]

A Clean Heart

“If I want to write on a wax slate, then there can be nothing written on it (…) I must erase and empty everything that is on the slate, and it is never presented to me so well for writing than when there is isn’t absolutely any-thing. In a very similar manner, if God in […]

I was there before Abraham

“Jesus is actually saying “before Abraham was, I am.” I was there before Abraham, and also with Abraham. I was there when the three angels visited Abraham. That was Me! I was there every time someone asked for a cup of cold water; and I will be there in the future every time some-body asks […]

Autonomy of Personality

“Freedom, according to Kant, cannot be scientifically proven. For him science is always bound to sensory experience, to ‘natural reality’ as understood in the limited context of Kant’s own concept-ions. Freedom and autonomy of personality do not lie in sensory nature. They are practical ideas of man’s ‘reason’; their supra-sensory reality remains a matter of […]

Saints Who Approved Crusades

“There were some saints who approved of the Crusades or the Inquisition. I cannot help thinking that they were in the wrong. I cannot go against the light of conscience. If I think that on this point I see more clearly than they did, I who am so far below them, I must admit that […]

The Ethical Is From Within

“I once wanted to give a few words in the foreword which now actually are not in it, which, however, I’ll write to you now be-cause they might be a key for you: I wanted to write that my work consists of two parts: of the one which is here, and of everything which I […]

Way for the Future

“History, we said men, has the responsibility for the dead of the past, whose heirs we are. The historical operation in its entirety can then be considered an act of sepulchre. Not a place, a cemetery, a simple depository of bones, but an act of repeated entombment. This scriptural sepulchre extends the work of memory […]

The Poetic Word

“Christianity, as the religion of the word proclaimed,’ of faith which hears and of a sacred scripture, has a special intrinsic relationship to the word and hence cannot be without such a special relationship to the poetic word.” Karl Rahner

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