Jean Guitton Quotes
1901–1999 France
Jean Guitton (1901 - 1999), French philosopher.
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Unlike Calvino, you bring the soul into the designs of merciful predestination without any element of anguish.
Generals do not fight with the fear of the troops, they prefer to keep them busy.
In the spiritual life, to grow means to simplify and simplify oneself, to become closer to uncreated and ineffable simplicity.
Love always envelops us: it is we, with our attitude towards it, who transform it into fire or light.
For Teresa, the way of Mary is a way of faith, without ecstasy, without miracles, even without words.
If the Church has sometimes been against science, the cause lies in its misreading of the Bible.
After about forty centuries of oral civilisation, the Word is an inflated currency.
Beauty is a splendour that must detach itself from those who possess it without them noticing and without returning to them.
The real way to resist temptation is to turn away and walk away.
Atheism is not only complicated and rare, it is also a recent phenomenon, a peculiarity supported by few and only recently in certain Western intellectual circles.
For a Christian, what we call life is a preparation for what we call the “afterlife”, the other life.
Believing in God means believing in an incomprehensible being whose ability to listen is known. That is what kneeling means.
Beauty is a kind of supplement to being, a radiance that is added to being.
Every segment of time shines, even if it is finite. It takes death, conversion, or interruption for us to understand any fragment of our lives.
The Pope is unique. A man who, because of his position, is obliged to remain attached to “the ceiling”, to see things “from the ceiling's point of view”.
I have always made it a rule to speak in a timeless manner, true today, tomorrow and always.
Discovering herself as the end of history, the Madonna now had the light to interpret the time that had gone before.
So today Mass risks resembling a liturgy of the word? A
Ordinary people have more confidence in those who have suddenly arrived at that state and are naturally honest than in those who have had to make a painful and painful effort to get there.
I believe in God because of encounters. All explanations are useless; I believe in encounters.