Alex Terego > Quotes

“Furthermore, to be human is to be intuitively aware of that fact.”
― Alex Terego, Edith Stein: Philosopher. Mystic. Martyr. Feminist.

“It is known that people who let go of negativity, calm themselves, listen carefully, and pay attention to their emotional, physical and spiritual health are more likely to have flashes of inspiration.”
― Alex Terego, A Thought Leader's Guide to Ideation: Build a foundation and culture of productive critical thinking, collaboration, communication, and problem solving

“All of this enhanced his reputation as a scholar, a theologian and mystic. He became a celebrity. This led to a group of French bishops complaining to the Holy Office. He was in effect fired from the Institut Catholique and would never teach there again.”
― Alex Terego, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and the Cosmic Christ

“In the meantime Greene was offered a job by the British American Tobacco Company in China. Days before he was to sail, a fellow employee told him that they would be able to play noughts and crosses (tic-tac-toe) all the way to China. He promptly resigned rather than face this prospect.”
― Alex Terego, Graham Greene: Bipolar Catholic

“Paul”
― Alex Terego, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and the Cosmic Christ

“Abstract theology, sacramentalism whose standard was quantity not quality and over-refined piety. The guidance provided by clergy to the flock is being confined to a little artificial world of ritualism, of religious practices and pious extravaganzas, which is completely cut off from the true current of reality.”
― Alex Terego, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and the Cosmic Christ

“Truth has to appear only once, in one single mind, for it to be impossible for anything to ever prevent it from spreading universally and setting everything ablaze.”
― Alex Terego, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and the Cosmic Christ

“every individual human soul has proceeded from the hands of God and bears a special seal.”
― Alex Terego, Edith Stein: Philosopher. Mystic. Martyr. Feminist.

“After much hesitation – on both their parts - he agreed to become a Catholic in order for them to marry. “I met the girl I was to marry,” he wrote, “after finding a note from her at the porter's lodge in Balliol protesting against my inaccuracy in writing, during the course of a film review, of the ‘worship’ Roman Catholics gave to the Virgin Mary, when I should have used the term ‘hyperdulia.’ I was interested that anyone took these subtle distinctions of an unbelievable theology seriously, and we became acquainted.”
― Alex Terego, Graham Greene: Bipolar Catholic

“Christ, as the Incarnation of God, is in matter, life and energy. This of course goes far beyond the traditional Catholic teachings, but in no way contradicts them. Nonetheless it was just too much for the leaders of the Church to embrace at that time.”
― Alex Terego, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and the Cosmic Christ

“it is matter carried beyond itself – it is super-material.”
― Alex Terego, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and the Cosmic Christ

“using the words evolution and Christ in the same sentence was as anathema to the Vatican in the 1940s as it is to Evangelical Protestants today.”
― Alex Terego, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and the Cosmic Christ

“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”
― Alex Terego, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and the Cosmic Christ

“and this is my favourite quote, “A pilgrim of the future on my way back from a journey made entirely in the past.”
― Alex Terego, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and the Cosmic Christ

“He thought that he was a small scale version of John the Baptist – one who presages what is to come. He was right in that regard.”
― Alex Terego, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and the Cosmic Christ

“As usual when elites try to suppress thought it becomes more attractive and accessible”
― Alex Terego, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and the Cosmic Christ

“Greene's contemporary and acquaintance at Oxford Evelyn Waugh, who would also convert to Catholicism, wrote of Greene, “Graham Greene looked down on us (and perhaps all undergraduates) as childish and ostentatious. He certainly shared in none of our revelry.”
― Alex Terego, Graham Greene: Bipolar Catholic

“He firmly announced to his family that he was giving up on the Church of England, stating that his belief in Catholicism was because of its firm belief in Hell, “It gives something hard, non-sentimental and exciting.”
― Alex Terego, Graham Greene: Bipolar Catholic

“Teilhard wrote, “The true struggle we are witnessing is not between believers and non-believers, but between two sorts of believers. Two ideals, two conceptions of the Divine are confronting one another….A religion of the earth is being mobilized against religion of heaven.”
― Alex Terego, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and the Cosmic Christ