Swedish Theologian Quotes

Charity itself consists in acting justly and faithfully in whatever office, business and employment a person is engaged in.

Emanuel Swedenborg

Thus it is necessary to commence from an inescapable duality: the finite is not the infinite.

Hans Urs von Balthasar

God does not love that which is already in itself worthy of love, but on the contrary, that which in itself has no worth acquires worth just by becoming the object of God's love. Agape has nothing to do with the kind of love that depends on the recognition of a valuable quality in its object. Agape does not recognize value, but creates it. Agape loves, and imparts value by loving. The man who is loved by God has no value in himself; what gives him value is precisely the fact that God loves him. Agape is a value-creating principle.

Science can be and is being made into an escapist philosophy — into a dodge of moral disciplines and spiritual responsibilities.

Nels F. S. Ferré