Godfried Danneels Quotes

I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had to offer.

There have been times where I've said, 'Jesus, I don't believe in you anymore, get out of here. I don't know. I don't even trust you.' And it's like, okay. And he's still hanging on.

I do not read many periodicals, and I have little or no contact with progressive Christians, so I don't really know what goes on with them. It seemed to me that very often, the progressive Christianity was an initial step in de-Christianization, but this was probably unfair.

There's a moment for everybody when you look at that picture of Jesus in the church and think, 'This doesn't totally make sense.' If God made everything, then who made God? We have no idea.

Whatever thou sayest of God is untrue.

I think Islam is in a sense, in crisis. It needs to question and re-question itself.

One and all, the orthodox creeds are crumbling into ruins everywhere.

Many who become theologians in our time think their task is to try to determine how much of what has passed for Christianity they still need to believe and yet still be able to think of themselves as Christians.

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

I want to talk about God in a literary way. But I think I would have a very hard time praying to God.

All theological lore is becoming distasteful to me.

I'm an agnosto-theist.

Reformation names the disunity in which we currently stand. We who remain in the Protestant tradition want to say that Reformation was a success.

It's no secret that in New York during the last 30 years there has been a tragic exodus from the churches into materialism, secularism and humanism.

We need a new religion.

The very fact that doctrine is hewn from bitter controversy and tested through time is sufficient reason to make them a focus of theology.

The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.

Christianity is under an existential threat.

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him

Certainly, I find that 'Mere Christianity' speaks to me. So why am I still an agnostic? Beats me.

You know, for a long time I became almost atheist. I believed in nothing. And it was tough for me to believe in anything at all because I had believed so strongly. And I divorced myself of spirituality, I think.

An important function of theology is to keep religion tied to reason and reason to religion. Both roles are of essential importance for humanity.

My whole faith was shattered there for a while.

Consider England. Within a few score years how many unsettling changes in religion has the whole kingdom made, according to the change of its rulers, in the various religions which they embraced.

The impotence of God is infinite.