Francis Arinze Quotes

Only God is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. The Church has always been changing.

Religious traditions are in a constant state of development and renewed self-understanding.

What Bill O'Reilly says means nothing. What Stephen Bennett says means nothing. What God says means everything.

The Gospel has never changed.

Therefore, the church is not absolutely necessary as an object of faith, not even for us today, for then Abraham and the other prophets would not have given assent to those things which were revealed to them from God without any intervening help of the church.

Rome should sometimes intervene and say this or that is not in conformity with the Catholic faith. Theologians should understand that. Some theologians go too far, for example, reducing the Catholic faith to a universal philosophy.

God's word is the same, yesterday and today and a million years from now.

I don't care if every patriarch in the Church has made a mistake in a blessing, and told a lie, I believe with all my heart and soul that the gospel is true, and I will not allow my faith to be upset.

Those who are rooted in the depths that are eternal and unchangeable and who rely on unshakeable principles, face change full of courage, courage based on faith.

Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.

Apparently God takes reception of Holy Communion seriously. Apparently some things are more sacred than politics. Apparently it's all or nothing when it comes to being Catholic.

For those whose faith has faded, the reasons may be real to them, but these reasons do not change the reality of what Joseph Smith restored.

But the law of God came from heaven indeed. God wrote it with his finger, it is the fountain of all wisdom, and therefore shall it continue for ever, and never have an end.

The law is God's first word; the gospel is God's final word.

I think there's nothing better in the world than a spirited discussion about the Bible and Jesus and God and the Catholic faith, or the Jewish faith, or the Muslim faith - any religion.

Each generation's job is to question what parents accept on faith, to explore possibilities, and adapt the last generation's system of values for a new age.

The Book of Mormon is another testament of Jesus Christ, and we learn about Him in its pages. We know that it has great power. It has the power to change lives. It has the power to convert. If you read it with an open heart, you will know that it is the word of God and that it is true.

The faith of the church must be tried by God's word, and not God's word by the church; neither yet my faith.

But I have to add - and this answers your other question - this catholicity in time and in space is only meaningful for me if there is, at the same time, a concentration on the Gospel.

Anyone who really studies Catholicism deeply is aware of the mystical nature of our faith. Even references to Christ's mystical body has connections to that principle.

If you replace the word God in the Bible with the word Truth, it reads exactly right.

When a religion becomes organized it is no longer a religious experience but only superstition and estrangement.

The Roman Church has never erred, nor can it err until the end of time.

Major religions usually remain major because they sanctify whatever is the social stricture of the day.

Bible is more reliable than tradition