Romano Guardini Quotes

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

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  Flames   Lit   Candle  

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

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  Fighting   Shepherds   Firsts  

  Romano Guardini (2012). “The Lord”, p.162, Regnery Publishing

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• The word is a thing of mystery, so volatile that it vanishes almost on the lip, yet so powerful that it decides fates and determines the meaning of existence. A frail structure shaped by fleeting sound, it yet contains the eternal: truth. Words come from within, rising as sounds fashioned by the organs of a man's body, as expressions of his heart and spirit. He utters them, yet he does not create them, for they already existed independently of him. One word is related to another; together they form the great unity of language, that empire of truth-forms in which a man lives.

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  Powerful   Heart   Fate  

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• Truth is power, but only when one has patience and requires of it no immediate effect. And one must have no specific aims. Somehow, lack of an agenda is the greatest power. Sometimes it is better not to think in terms of plans; here months may mean nothing, and also years. Truth must be sought for its own sake, its holy, divine greatness.

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  Mean   Greatness   Thinking  

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• 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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  Men   Historical   Messages  

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

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  Running   Religious   Oil  

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