#salvation

Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#disclosure #divine #human #reason #salvation

Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#core #critics #crucial #essence #ever

If contemporary Christians took seriously the possibility that those outside the boundaries of the church might hold the promise of renewal, if we ceased regarding ourselves as the source of salvation and the secular world as a potential threat, and if we emulated Jesus' example in accepting the faith and the courage of those who live beyond conventional standards of purity, well, I can hardly imagine how things would look. ↗

— Greg Carey

#holiness #purity #religion #salvation #courage

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#challenge #future #moment #never #now

Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#desire #know #man #necessary #ought

There is but one Church in which men find salvation, just as outside the ark of Noah it was not possible for anyone to be saved. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#ark #church #find #just #men

For even these are no less bestowed on him of pure grace, than are righteousness and salvation themselves. ↗

— Johann Arndt

#even #grace #him #less #pure

The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and the road to salvation can only be the return of the sensible finite into the intelligible infinite. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#been #decline #fall #finite #first

Courage is a kind of salvation. ↗

— Plato

#kind #salvation

I firmly believe that our salvation depends on the poor. ↗

— Dorothy Day

#depends #firmly #i #our #poor