Fabrice Hadjadj > Quotes

“Basically, money and the resurrection are opposed as two systems of possibility: the system of the virtual and the system of the living.”
― Fabrice Hadjadj, The Resurrection: Experience Life in the Risen Christ

“The Good News escapes the parameters of news: it is not information for everyone, but a call to each. Return”
― Fabrice Hadjadj, The Resurrection: Experience Life in the Risen Christ

“Avarice is the fixation of this waking dream, purse in hand. The avaricious person rejoices in all the purchases that he could make, and in order to keep them all within reach of his pocket, he makes none of them.”
― Fabrice Hadjadj, The Resurrection: Experience Life in the Risen Christ

“If Jesus appeared just like that in the middle of your living room, but this apparition was not enclosed in the monstrance of the revealed Word starting with Moses, the prophets, and the Psalms, you would be incapable of grasping its significance. You would take him for Zeus, Mary Poppins, or a traveling salesman, not for the Messiah.”
― Fabrice Hadjadj, The Resurrection: Experience Life in the Risen Christ

“5:8)—a feeling of unworthiness that still smacks of pride, because despite everything I am the one who decides whether or not I am worthy, and I remain at the level of retribution, shirking the order of grace.”
― Fabrice Hadjadj, The Resurrection: Experience Life in the Risen Christ

“This logos of money has the advantage of being quantifiable and, above all, quantifying. It puts you in control rather than into a relationship of trust. With it, you do not found your existence on faith in a life that is stronger than death, but on belief in theft, in necessary exploitation, in the inevitable trafficking in bodies, while we sleep peacefully in our beds.”
― Fabrice Hadjadj, The Resurrection: Experience Life in the Risen Christ

“The new arch-apostle soon sinks into fundamentalism, not because he is archaic, but because he is high-tech. He wants others to react to his harangue as quickly as an Intel processor. And he forgets that, according to Jesus, the average spiritual reactivity that a preacher has a right to hope for from his listeners is much inferior than that of a tortoise or a snail. Instead it is that of a plant: the sure slowness of sprouting and taking root. He said so explicitly: Where the seeds had not much soil, immediately they sprang up (cf. Mt 13:5). Fishers”
― Fabrice Hadjadj, The Resurrection: Experience Life in the Risen Christ

“faith in the resurrection happens to destroy two contrary beliefs, each of which is rather convenient on its own terms: the belief in the immortality of the soul alone, and the belief in death as total annihilation. Annihilation allows you to bury with you all your unknown crimes. Exclusively spiritual immortality allows you to disdain the body in this world and to accept death as a release from prison. These two ways out are now impossible.”
― Fabrice Hadjadj, The Resurrection: Experience Life in the Risen Christ

“No hay nadie más terco que un muerto.”
― Fabrice Hadjadj, 99 lecciones para ser un payaso

“. . . The idea that sex is something grave belongs to a certain Judeo-Christian superstition. Georges Bataille sees eroticism as a wound through which beings communicate violently, and [René] Étiemble reproaches him for his ‘inverted Christianity,’ with his fascination for the Eros-Thanatos pair. True eroticism is gentle, airy, innocent. Even Sade looks still far too Catholic. We’ve got to de-dramatize. Think of springtime warmth, when the air becomes a vehicle for pollen and the perfume of vigorous activity: ‘All that wonderful awakening of April and May is the vast expanse of sex that proposes voluptuousness sotto voce.’ Let’s not be afraid to be as naive as flowers: pants off and under the sun. Let’s be as simple as doves: let’s mate without fear. Future purity consists of merging with that ‘endless sex orgy… With movies in between.’

The corpus cavernosum has not left the caves. It’s less than the shadow of a shadow. Now we only talk about the sex of the angels—without flesh nor pregnancies, without history nor intimacy, beyond the female and the male, far from marriage and circumcision (a pure spirit has no foreskin). But even angels still have too much consistency. And besides, we don’t believe in them. Rather, let’s compare our sex to Lichtenberg’s famous knife, ‘without a blade, for which the handle is missing’—a knife that cuts nothing…”
― Fabrice Hadjadj, La Profondeur des sexes: Pour une mystique de la chair

“Así que, tanto si tu padre ha preparado un asado con tu hermano mayor como si tu hijo ha hecho correr ríos de sangre por las calles de la ciudad, no sucumbas al pánico, porque está escrito: la partida no ha terminado. Aún sigue valiendo la pena haber traído al mundo a un canalla.”
― Fabrice Hadjadj, Ser padre con san José: Breve guía del aventurero de los tiempos posmodernos

“The true superior does not strut and preen: he stoops and extends a hand.”
― Fabrice Hadjadj, The Resurrection: Experience Life in the Risen Christ

“the pacifists, who by their passivity made themselves accomplices of the destroyers.”
― Fabrice Hadjadj, The Resurrection: Experience Life in the Risen Christ

“The Risen Lord is not one of those supermen. His glory espouses the everyday. Scarcely has he attained the pinnacle of perfection than he finds nothing better to do than to meet with his friends for conversation and a meal.”
― Fabrice Hadjadj, The Resurrection: Experience Life in the Risen Christ

“There is already a publication entitled Suicide: A User’s Guide: it catalogues rather quick techniques for stopping your heart or blowing your brains out. Alas, with the resurrection we cannot claim such efficiency. Although it is relatively easy to put an end to one’s own life, it is on the other hand much harder to get it to start again. You do not pull yourself up from six feet under the way you throw yourself out of a sixth-story window. I am capable of removing myself from the company of the living; not of raising myself from the dead.”
― Fabrice Hadjadj, The Resurrection: Experience Life in the Risen Christ

“El emperador solo lo es cuando está en vela. El niño que duerme, sigue siendo niño. Por eso, al emperador le cuesta tanto trabajo dormir.”
― Fabrice Hadjadj, 99 lecciones para ser un payaso

“In everything God works for good with those who love him (Rom 8:28).”
― Fabrice Hadjadj, The Resurrection: Experience Life in the Risen Christ

“It is quite possible to read the Gospel as a police investigation, as long you realize its structure is more surprising than an Agatha Christie mystery, or even Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex.”
― Fabrice Hadjadj, The Resurrection: Experience Life in the Risen Christ

“Salome comes from Shalom, Peace, the first word of the Risen One to the Apostles).”
― Fabrice Hadjadj, The Resurrection: Experience Life in the Risen Christ

“the demon of fear of events, with its fur bristling in anticipation of a caress; the demon of worldly piety, which lifts itself up by creeping like ivy; the demon of proud science, hiding its horns beneath a university mortarboard; the demon of quick-tempered strength that is incapable of enduring the least vexation; the demon of bad counsel, that tells you all the tricks by which to climb the rungs of hell; the demon of artificial intelligence, that believes that thought is perfected not in praise but in calculation; the demon of the wisdom of spirituality websites, which provide you with “well-being, interior freedom, harmony, and serenity in everyday life” by assuring you that you are the reincarnation of an empress and that your boss is only an illusion. Our Mary, who is neither a saint nor a virgin, had all it would take to succeed in high society. No such luck, or perhaps by the grace of God, whichever you prefer: there she was, deprived of the seven keys to success and commanded by the Risen Lord to relate an impossible story to a bunch of dullards. To”
― Fabrice Hadjadj, The Resurrection: Experience Life in the Risen Christ

“A fuel or energy source (natural gas, gasoline, electricity) simply makes a machine run. When you don’t supply it, the machine continues to exist. It has stopped, but it does not die. The fuel does not reconstitute. It does not keep the motor in existence, nor the chassis, nor any other piece whatsoever of the automobile. Food, in contrast, not only furnishes the calories that enable the body to function; more fundamentally it contributes to the subsistence, the growth, and then even the fecundity of the individual whom it nourishes.”
― Fabrice Hadjadj, The Resurrection: Experience Life in the Risen Christ

“Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap. Archbishop of Philadelphia”
― Fabrice Hadjadj, The Resurrection: Experience Life in the Risen Christ

“yesterday, the woman communicated the lie to the man; today, Mary must proclaim the Risen Lord to men. And, by symmetry, whereas the forbidden fruit could be touched but not eaten, Jesus, who is also the living Bread (Jn 6:51), must not be touched but may be eaten. The one who says Do not touch me is in fact the same one who said a few verses earlier: Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you (Jn 6:53).”
― Fabrice Hadjadj, The Resurrection: Experience Life in the Risen Christ

“Digital technology is in fact the ultimate stage of cash. The digitalization of the world through the Internet is the final step in the monetization of the world through money.”
― Fabrice Hadjadj, The Resurrection: Experience Life in the Risen Christ

“Para ser un superhombre, había que comenzar por ser una cobaya. [Esfuerzo hacia lo transhumano]”
― Fabrice Hadjadj, 99 lecciones para ser un payaso

“Si hay un Dios, una Providencia o un Destino, ellos son, con toda seguridad, los mayores bromistas.”
― Fabrice Hadjadj, 99 lecciones para ser un payaso

“a particular example of a more general rule: that of letting an older person have your seat on a bus, because even though we can run faster, we should recognize that that person nevertheless has taken more steps than we have.”
― Fabrice Hadjadj, The Resurrection: Experience Life in the Risen Christ

“Shall we think that spirituality is the remedy, and that humanity perishes because it’s too attached to matter? These days, spirituality fills the shelves: it’s compared, it’s bought, it’s sold on eBay. It’s as likely to refer you to the ashram at Beaune-la-Rolande as to Selim Abitbol’s School of Psycho-Anthropology. Although you must be careful when choosing your spirit. It looks like we need a consumer’s guide. But one quickly realizes: the very idea that in this regard each person has to choose their own enlightenment from the shelves locks us in a spirituality of consumption. To be blunt, the real problem is this: Satan is very spiritual. His nature is pure spirit. There’s not an ounce of matter in him. No personal tendency toward materialism. So, believe it, spirituality is one of his tricks. It’s one of his tricks in such a way that, evidently, the Spirit of Truth pushes us more toward what’s carnal than toward said spirituality.”
― Fabrice Hadjadj, La fe de los demonios

“a fortiori,”
― Fabrice Hadjadj, The Resurrection: Experience Life in the Risen Christ

“After all, there is something better than doing extraordinary things: illuminating ordinary things from within.”
― Fabrice Hadjadj, The Resurrection: Experience Life in the Risen Christ