“… once one has realized, following the great English literary visionaries William Shakespeare and Thomas Nashe, that sexual puritanism, political disciplinarianism, and abuse of the poor are the result of the refusal of true Christianity … one is led to articulate a more incarnate, more participatory, more aesthetic, more erotic, more socialized, even a more ‘Platonic’ Christianity.” - John Milbank

“Christian theology is a hair’s breadth away from nihilism.” - John Milbank

“Man is what he eats.” - Alexander Schmemann

“Academic theology is false.” - Alexander Schmemann

“It takes the whole church to know the whole truth.” - Rowan Williams

“We imagine the past, and remember the future.” - Carlos Fuentes

“The mind, unless it is pure and holy, cannot see God.” - Seneca

“The glory of God is the human being, fully alive.” - St. Ireneaus

“In the post-Christian world, all Christians will be mystics.” - Karl Rahner (loosely attributed)

“The depths of the self are the heights of God.” - James Finley

“Our social program begins with the dogma of the Holy Trinity.” - Nikolai Fyodorov

“The whole story of creation, incarnation, and our incorporation into the fellowship of Christ’s body tells us that God desires us, as if we were God, as if we were that unconditional response to God’s giving that God’s self makes in the life of the Trinity. We are created so that we may be caught up in this, so that we may grow into the wholehearted love of God by learning that God loves us as God loves God.” - Rowan Williams

“Traditions, when vital, embody continuities of conflict. Indeed when a tradition becomes Burkean, it is always dying or dead.” Alisdair MacIntyre (After Virtue, 3rd ed., 222).

“Experiences of the first order, of the first rank, are not realized through the eye.” - Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

“If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ.” - Martin Luther