Carl E. Olson > Quotes

“this eternal procession of the Spirit per modum amoris stands as the “seed and root” of all the subsequent communications of divine love, all “other fruits which God puts forth by way of His Love”.69 By the grace poured into a sinner’s heart what is created is a new son, a true “son in the image of the eternal Son”, but the manner of the process finds its eternal pattern and exemplar not especially in the Son’s eternal generation but in the procession of the Spirit by way of “sheer love”.”
― Carl E. Olson, Called to Be the Children of God: The Catholic Theology of Human Deification

“In my end is my beginning. —T. S. Eliot”
― Carl E. Olson, Will Catholics Be Left Behind?: A Catholic Critique of the Rapture and Today's Prophecy Preachers

“G. K. Chesterton’s observation: “The simplification of anything is always sensational.”
― Carl E. Olson, Will Catholics Be Left Behind?: A Catholic Critique of the Rapture and Today's Prophecy Preachers

“Let everyone be struck with fear, let the whole world tremble, and let the heavens exult when Christ, the Son of the living God, is present on the altar in the hands of a priest! O wonderful loftiness and stupendous dignity! O sublime humility! O humble sublimity! The Lord of the universe, God and the Son of God, so humbles Himself that for our salvation He hides Himself under an ordinary piece of bread!13”
― Carl E. Olson, Called to Be the Children of God: The Catholic Theology of Human Deification

“Jesus’ love and adoration for the Father, and concomitantly, his contemplation of the Father. Our participation in these states comes by way of imitation: we love, adore, and contemplate the Son, as he did (does) the Father. Our gaze toward [Christ] should be a gaze of the greatest honor, the most powerful love and total and absolute dependence. We should wish that. . . we could be completely occupied and given over to this spiritual and divine contemplation of the new source and principle of our being.14”
― Carl E. Olson, Called to Be the Children of God: The Catholic Theology of Human Deification

“In a divine paradox, suffering is a gift, for it is through suffering that we become sacrificial, self-giving lovers of others and of God (Phil 1:29; 2 Tim 2:10-11).”
― Carl E. Olson, Will Catholics Be Left Behind?: A Catholic Critique of the Rapture and Today's Prophecy Preachers

“He who loves the coming of the Lord is not he who affirms it is far off, nor is it he who says it is near. It is he who, whether it be far or near, awaits it with sincere faith, steadfast hope, and fervent love. —Augustine of Hippo”
― Carl E. Olson, Will Catholics Be Left Behind?: A Catholic Critique of the Rapture and Today's Prophecy Preachers

“The shortest distance between two minds is a figure of speech.”
― Carl E. Olson, Will Catholics Be Left Behind?: A Catholic Critique of the Rapture and Today's Prophecy Preachers