Richard Oliver > Richard's Quotes

“Why is there something rather than nothing?”
― Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

“The twentieth-century theologian Karl Rahner commented that “God” is the last sound we should make before falling silent, and Saint Augustine, long ago, said, “si comprehendis, non est Deus” (if you understand, that isn’t God). All of this formal theologizing is but commentary on that elusive and confounding voice from the burning bush: “I am who am.”
― Robert E. Barron, Catholicism: A Journey to the Heart of the Faith

“You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“Do not accept anything as love which lacks truth.”
― Edith Stein

“All those who seek truth, seek God, whether this is clear to them or not.”
― Edith Stein