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Theology for Beginners QUOTES

Theology for Beginners QUOTES

1 " The man who knows of the universe of spirit walks upright, the materialist hugs the earth. "

― Frank Sheed , Theology for Beginners

2 " Sin, for instance, is an effort to gain something against the will of God; but the will of God is all that holds us in existence; "

― Frank Sheed , Theology for Beginners

3 " Eternity is not time at all. It is God’s total possession of Himself. "

― Frank Sheed , Theology for Beginners

4 " We cannot use anything intelligently until we know what it is for. "

― Frank Sheed , Theology for Beginners

5 " Each of our powers seeks its own outlet, each of our needs its own immediate gratification; we have not the subordination of all our powers to reason and of reason to God which would unify all our striving; every one of us is a civil war. At two points principally the disorder is at its worst, the passions and the imagination. "

― Frank Sheed , Theology for Beginners

6 " truths, I am not at all so sure. Some monstrous shapes flit about the Catholic mind: I remember an educated Catholic "

― Frank Sheed , Theology for Beginners

7 " no record, "

― Frank Sheed , Theology for Beginners

8 " man is essentially a social being. We should not come into existence unless other humans produced us, or stay in existence unless they maintained us in it. "

― Frank Sheed , Theology for Beginners

9 " There is no external operation of the divine nature which is the work of one Person as distinct from the Others. "

― Frank Sheed , Theology for Beginners

10 " ignorance about the Supreme Being is worse poverty than ignorance about any of the lesser beings He has created of nothing. "

― Frank Sheed , Theology for Beginners

11 " And as we shall see, the direct power the human mind has over its own body, mightier spirits have over all matter. "

― Frank Sheed , Theology for Beginners

12 " Every living body—vegetable, lower animal, human—has a life principle, a soul. "

― Frank Sheed , Theology for Beginners

13 " learned "

― Frank Sheed , Theology for Beginners

14 " ours is the only spirit which is a soul, so ours is the only soul which is a spirit. "

― Frank Sheed , Theology for Beginners

15 " If we are continuously producing things which have no attribute of matter, there must be in us some element which is not matter, to produce them. This element we call spirit. "

― Frank Sheed , Theology for Beginners

16 " Our ideas are not material. They have no resemblance to our body. Their resemblance is to our spirit. They have no shape, no size, no color, no weight, no space. Neither has spirit whose offspring they are. But no one can call it nothing; for it produces thought, and thought is the most powerful thing in the world—unless love is, which spirit also produces. "

― Frank Sheed , Theology for Beginners

17 " A spirit differs from a material thing by having no parts. Once we have mastered the meaning of this, we are close to our goal. "

― Frank Sheed , Theology for Beginners

18 " If it occupies space at all, be it ever so microscopic, or so infinitesimally submicroscopic, there must be some “spread.” Space is simply what matter spreads its parts in. But a being with no parts at all has no spread; space and it have nothing whatever in common; it is spaceless; it is superior to the need for space. "

― Frank Sheed , Theology for Beginners

19 " Material beings can be destroyed in the sense that they can be broken up into their constituent parts: what has parts can be taken apart. But a partless being lies beyond all this. Nothing can be taken from it, because there is nothing in it but its whole self. We can conceive, of course, of its whole self being taken out of existence. This would be annihilation. But just as only God can create from nothing by willing a being to exist, so only God can reduce a being to nothing by willing it no longer to exist: and for the human soul, God has told us that He will not thus will it out of existence. "

― Frank Sheed , Theology for Beginners

20 " Yet the human soul is the lowest of spirits. The least of the angels is unimaginably superior in power "

― Frank Sheed , Theology for Beginners