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4,407 quotes curated by Chris Lavergne:

“Why theology? Because the first must be first.”
— Czeslaw Milosz, Second Space
Tagged: Theology
“Sex has no value, because it lives and dies in the present. But love doesn't. Love is dangerous, because it looks to the future.”
— Attanasio's Mother, The New Pope, Season 1: Episode 6
Tagged: Sex vs. Love, Sex
“ All the airline points in the world cannot purchase a single ticket home.”
— Gay Courter, I Prepared for Everything, but Not Coronavirus on a Cruise Ship
“God saves us, always. God does not deny anyone the grace of salvation.It is the most beautiful thing there is. We love vanity and sin. We love deprivation and wickedness. So we believe that God has abandoned us. That God does not like us. But God does not manage our lives. He does not correct our weaknesses. God does not stop our hand, when it plunges into sin. No. All He does is save us. In the end, God saves us. And He saves us with a kiss.”
— Cardinal Gutierrez, The New Pope, Season 1: Episode 7
Tagged: Salvation
“I am not Christ, nor am I the Messiah. It's more likely that I am the Antichrist.”
— Pius XIII / Lenny Belardo, The New Pope, Season 1: Episode 7
Tagged: antichrist
“The rule of enframing threatens man with
the possibility that it could be denied to him to enter into a more original revealing, and hence to experience the call of a more primal truth.”
— Martin Heidegger, The Question Concerning Technology
Tagged: Enframing
“Like happiness, like intelligence Like God. When I was a boy a man took advantage of me. And as he did so, he would say: 'God does not exist.' And I would answer back, in God's place: Even if He doesn't exist, we desperately need to believe He is there. ”
— Cardinal Gutierrez, The New Pope, Season 1: Episode 2
Tagged: Heidegger’s Bridge, God, Faith
“It is essential to distinguish between what is physiological and what is pathological in the body of the Church.”
— Giovanni Paolo III / Sir John Brannox, The New Pope, Season 1: Episode 2
Tagged: Catholic Church, Nature vs. Corruption
“You will come to me and you will tell me all this suffering in the world. And I will say to you: they are all hysterias of love. Distortions of our ability to love. The problem, brothers, is love. The question, then, is: how are we to love? This is my way: with tenderness, without passion. Passion is the eternal enemy of humility. Christian humility, which is frugal, is just and is necessary. Love is an abstraction, like intelligence, like happiness. Every time our judgment is beclouded by the ardent passions that consume us, we give love a dangerous concreteness, a scandalous concreteness, an illegal concreteness. In short, we are causing pain. To ourselves, and to others. Replace that concrete love with tenderness.”
— Giovanni Paolo III / Sir John Brannox, The New Pope, Season 1: Episode 3
Tagged: Distortions of Love , Love Is An Abstraction
“Perhaps we cannot fully express our faith but we can express our tenderness.”
— Pius XIII / Lenny Belardo, The New Pope, Season 1: Episode 3
Tagged: Faith, Mystery of Christianity