Quotes About Theology Of The Body

#1. Brace yourself! If we take in what the Holy Father is saying in his Theology of the Body, we will never view ourselves, view others, view the Church, the Sacraments, grace, God, heaven, marriage, the celibate vocation ... we will never view the world the same way again.

Christopher West

#2. Human Love in the Divine Plan. God's designs for the person, the designs of divine love for human love - this is the reality the theology of the body attempts to unfold on the basis of the teaching of Jesus.

Pope John Paul II

#3. I do not think either virginity or old age contemptible, and some of the shrewdest minds I have met inhabited the bodies of old maids.

C.S. Lewis

#4. It's one of the things writing students don't understand. They write a first draft and are quite disappointed, or often should be disappointed. They don't understand that they have merely begun, and that they may be merely beginning even in the second or third draft.

Elizabeth Hardwick

#5. Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts. God designed your body's plumbing system. God designed an ostrich. If He didn't do it, He permitted a drunken angel to do it. Empirical facts can add significantly to the meaning of "being godlike".

Peter Kreeft

#6. The Radleys, welcome anywhere in town, kept to themselves, a predilection unforgivable in Maycomb. They

Harper Lee

#7. The human spirit is so utterly one with the body that the term "form" can be used of the body and retain its proper meaning. Conversely, the form of the body is spirit, and this is what makes the human being a person.

Pope Benedict XVI

#8. The Qualia of God have paramount potential to alter your body chemistry through mind-body substrates of neurobiology.

Abhijit Naskar

#9. You cannot judge one man by another's sins.

Loretta Livingstone

#10. The lust of the flesh directs these desires [of personal union], however, to satisfaction of the body, often at the cost of a real and full communion of persons.

Pope John Paul II

#11. Rich people always have a certain degree of debt. Apparently it helps to reduce taxes. I'm not so hot on the bean-counting side.

Felix Dennis

#12. I know the theological answers, but do my blood and my pulse?

Ann Voskamp

#13. At the cross, Jesus subjects himself to disability, and his resurrected body continues to bear his scars as a sign of God's solidarity with humanity.

Thomas E. Reynolds

#14. If all you can promise me is today, I'll take it and hope for tomorrow.

Ellen Hopkins

#15. Wherever I travel to, I encounter great souls.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#16. It is because baptism is a real insertion of human beings into the ascended manhood of Christ that the Church is Christ's own body, flesh of his flesh and bone of his bones.

E.L. Mascall

#17. I started with rock n' roll and ... then you start to take it apart like a child with a toy and you see there's blues and there's country ... Then you go back from country into American music ... and you end up in Scotland and Ireland eventually.

Elvis Costello

#18. Shirley Jackson's writings are a must for aficionados of the gothic and of good literature.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#19. Women's styles may change but their designs remain the same.

Oscar Wilde

#20. She cured me of my sadness.

Avijeet Das

#21. It just kills me when these girls look at magazines and wish they could look like that. I try to tell them, 'Nobody looks like that. Everything's airbrushed.'

Cindy Margolis

#22. My body kills me, so I kill it.

Dorotheus The Theban

#23. The incarnation, passion, and resurrection of the Son do not modify the Trinity. In becoming man, the Son 'enhanced human nature without diminishing the divine.' 'Even when the Word takes a body from Mary, the Trinity remains a Trinity, with neither increase nor decrease. It is forever perfect.

Gilles Emery

#24. Most of America doesn't pay dishwashers $10.

Tom Douglas

#25. There is no point in winning an argument if you know or suspect you are wrong.

John Piper

#26. She would die here and not complain. She would be buried beneath this avalanche of lifelessness.

Marissa Meyer

#27. No one book of scripture can be understood by itself, any more than any one part of a tree or member of the body can be understood without reference to the whole of which it is a part.

Charles Hodge

#28. The future has a lot to do with the past.

Dwight Yoakam