Brian Davies > Quotes

“Yet “to love” can also mean “to will goodness to something.” In this sense it can be fittingly ascribed to God since he freely does this insofar as he brings about the existence of anything.”
― Brian Davies, Thomas Aquinas on God and Evil

“The Summa Theologiae is not, as is sometimes supposed, a potpourri of theology and philosophy; it is wholly a Summa of Theology concerned with the Sacra Doctrina, the Holy Teaching of salvation given by God’s revelation.”
― Brian Davies, Aquinas's Summa Theologiae

“In prayer we become the locus of the divine dialogue between Father and Son; we are in Spirit and truth.”
― Brian Davies, The McCabe Reader

“... though one can talk significantly about God one can only do so by saying what God is not.”
― Brian Davies, An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion