Swiss Quotes

People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation.

There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.

Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.

Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.

His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.

The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness.

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.

Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure. I am sure, however, that en famille they play Mozart.

What God chooses for us children of men is always the best.

Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.

Faith is never identical with piety.

Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.

No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.

Men have never been good, they are not good and they never will be good.

It may be that when the angels go about their task praising God, they play only Bach. I am sure, however, that when they are together en famille they play Mozart.

Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.

The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.

Man can certainly flee from God... but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God, but he cannot change into its opposite the eternal love of God which triumphs even in his hate.

It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins.

Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace.

In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians.

Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.

Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.

Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the Resurrection.

Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for example, with the social commitment of Jesus to the oppressed as a new center, no longer stands in continuity with the apostolic faith.

To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love, occurs in such a way that it is truly the creature that provides the response, with its own nature and its natural powers of love.

Thus it is necessary to commence from an inescapable duality: the finite is not the infinite.