Henri de Lubac citations

Henri Sonier de Lubac, né le 20 février 1896 à Cambrai et mort le 4 septembre 1991 à Paris 7e, est un jésuite, théologien catholique, membre de l'Institut, et cardinal français. Wikipedia  

✵ 20. février 1896 – 4. septembre 1991
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Henri de Lubac: Citations en anglais

“If heretics no longer horrify us today, as they once did our forefathers, is it certain that it is because there is more charity in our hearts? Or would it not too often be, perhaps, without our daring to say so, because the bone of contention, that is to say, the very substance of our faith, no longer interests us? Men of too familiar and too passive a faith, perhaps for us dogmas are no longer the Mystery on which we live, the Mystery which is to be accomplished in us. Consequently then, heresy no longer shocks us; at least, it no longer convulses us like something trying to tear the soul of our souls away from us…. And that is why we have no trouble in being kind to heretics, and no repugnance in rubbing shoulders with them.

In reality, bias against ‘heretics’ is felt today just as it used to be. Many give way to it as much as their forefathers used to do. Only, they have turned it against political adversaries. Those are the only ones with whom they refuse to mix. Sectarianism has only changed its object and taken other forms, because the vital interest has shifted. Should we dare to say that this shifting is progress?

It is not always charity, alas, which has grown greater, or which has become more enlightened: it is often faith, the taste for the things of eternity, which has grown less. Injustice and violence are still reigning; but they are now in the service of degraded passions.”

Henri de Lubac, Paradoxes of Faith (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1987), pp. 226-227

“A […] form of present-day secularism is activism, which discounts contemplation and all interiority.”

Part 2. "Teilhard and the Problems of Today", Ch. 5, pp. 254–255, n. 54
The Eternal Feminine (1968)

“Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.”

Source: Paradoxes of Faith (1987), Ch. V. "Spirit", p. 58

“The Gospel is full of paradoxes, by which the mind is at first troubled. The Savior teaches with great simplicity, yet he says also, "Blessed is he that shall not be scandalized in me."”

And it is a question, at least, whether all substantial spiritual doctrine must not of necessity take a paradoxical form.
Source: Paradoxes of Faith (1987), Ch. I. "Paradox", p. 13

“The most unbending thoughts are the most vulnerable to change.”

Source: Paradoxes of Faith (1987), Ch. IX. "Truth", p. 105

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