“What we call love is in its essence reverence for life.”
Quotes by Theologian
A theologian is a scholar who rigorously studies the nature of the divine, religious beliefs, and spiritual practices. Their work involves critical analysis of sacred texts, philosophical inquiry into the nature of faith, and the exploration of how religious doctrines shape human understanding and cultural identity.
Filter Quotes
Quotes about Life by Theologian
“A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him.”
“To the man who is truly ethical all life is sacred, including that which from the human point of view seems lower in the scale. He makes distinctions only as each case comes before him, and under the pressure of necessity, as, for example, when it falls to him to decide which of two lives he must sacrifice in order to preserve the other. But all through this series of decisions he is conscious of acting on subjective grounds and arbitrarily, and knows that he bears the responsibility for the life which is sacrificed.”
“World-view is a product of life-view, not vice versa.”
“The great secret of success is to go through life as a person who never gets used up. That is possible for those who never argue and strive with people and facts, but in all experience retires upon themselves, and look for the ultimate cause of things in themselves.”
“It's not enough merely to exist. Every man has to seek in his own way to make his own self more noble and to relize his own true worth.”
“I do not want to frighten you by telling you about the temptations life will bring. Anyone who is healthy in spirit will overcome them. But there is something I want you to realize. It does not matter so much what you do. What matters is whether your soul is harmed by what you do. If your soul is harmed, something irreparable happens, the extent of which you won't realize until it will be too late.”
“Whatever you have received more than others-in health, in talents, in ability, in success, in a pleasant childhood, in harmonious conditions of home life-all this you must not take to yourself as a matter of course. In gratitude for your good fortune, you must remember in return some sacrifice of your own life for another life.”
“He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself.”
“Nature compels us to recognize the fact of mutual dependence, each life necessarily helping the other lives who are linked to it. In the very fibers of our being, we bear within ourselves the fact of the solidarity of life.”