Henri de Lubac: Man

Henri de Lubac was Jesuit theologian and cardinal. Explore interesting quotes on man.
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“Credulity, sectarianism, and sloth are three natural tendencies of man. Too often he canonizes them under nobler names.”

Henri de Lubac

Source: Paradoxes of Faith (1987), Ch. II. "Christianity", p. 21

Nature

“Remember, after all, that the Gospel is full of paradoxes, that man is himself a living paradox, and that according to the Fathers of the Church, the Incarnation is the supreme paradox.”

Henri de Lubac

Author's Preface, p. 8
Paradoxes of Faith (1987)

“The Holy Spirit that Christ promised to send […] creates in man new depths which harmonize him with the "depths of God"”

Henri de Lubac

Job 11:7
Source: Catholicism (1938), Ch. XI. "Person and Society", p. 186

God , Christ

“The Holy Spirit that Christ promised to send to his own […] creates in man new depths which harmonize him with he "depths of God".”

Henri de Lubac

Job 11:7
Source: Catholicism (1938), Ch. XI. "Person and Society", p. 186

God , Christ