Romano Guardini Quotes

#1. Jesus was no cold Superman - he was more human than any of us. Entirely pure, unweakened by evil, he was loving and open to the core. His ardor, truth, sensitivity, power, capacity for joy and pain were unlimited, and everything that happened to him happened in the immeasurableness of his divinity.

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#2. Guardini recognized that the liturgy is the true, living environment for the Bible and that the Bible can be properly understood only in this living context within which it first emerged.

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#3. and Jesus advanced in wisdom and age and grace with God and men" (Luke 2:52),

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#4. Asceticism means that a man resolves to live as a man.

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#5. Without the religious element, life is like an engine running without oil-it seizes up.

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#6. As one candle is lit from the flame of another, so is faith kindled by faith.

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#7. The Transfiguration is the summer lightning of the coming Resurrection. Also of our own resurrection, for we too are to partake

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#8. We are the archenemy of our own salvation, and the Shepherd must fight first of all with us - for us.

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#9. Essentially a soldier, the Christian is always on the lookout.

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#10. What can convince modern man is not a historical or a psychological or a continually ever modernizing Christianity but only the unrestricted and uninterrupted message of Revelation.

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