John Lynch > Quotes

“The motivation of grace will always bear greater fruit than the coercion of demand.”
― John Lynch, On My Worst Day: Cheesecake, Evil, Sandy Koufax, and Jesus

“Faith also requires “purification” in Ratzinger’s thought.  For Ratzinger, reason allows faith to discern what is superstitious from what is true and what inconsistent with truth from what is a genuine expansion of knowledge.”
― John Lynch, The Logos as Reason, Word, and Love in the Theology of Joseph Ratzinger

“Professor Ratzinger specifies that the philosophical view of God was reframed by its convergence with the biblical faith of Christianity in two ways: 1) It removed the idea that God must be totally and solely self-interested, and 2) it recognized that the divine is not limited to pure thought and thus can act in concrete ways.[cxvi]  This union between the Logos and love is another key feature of Ratzinger's theology.”
― John Lynch, The Logos as Reason, Word, and Love in the Theology of Joseph Ratzinger

“people work best and hardest in a place where they know they are valued.”
― John Lynch, On My Worst Day: Cheesecake, Evil, Sandy Koufax, and Jesus

“John, you are marked now. You will run as fast as you can, but you will not be able to escape. You belong to me. You were made for a life of grace and redemption and love. Of freedom beyond what you can imagine. You have been bought. You just don’t know it yet. And that feeling of being understood and adored by one who knows everything about you? It will lead you eventually home. You called me. I answered. I rescued you. I revealed me to you. It has filled you with a longing you never knew you had. Run, my friend. But know you have been marked.”
― John Lynch, On My Worst Day: Cheesecake, Evil, Sandy Koufax, and Jesus

“Address”—Religion cut off from reason too easily becomes oppressive.”
― John Lynch, The Logos as Reason, Word, and Love in the Theology of Joseph Ratzinger