“The contact of a believer with a nonbeliever must take the form of a dialogue. The all-powerful action of pure sanctity alone is dispensed from it, since it is not bound by any law. But the dialogue will never get underway if it is not first a dialogue with myself.”

Source: Paradoxes of Faith (1987), Ch. III. "Witness", p. 36

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Jesuit theologian and cardinal 1896–1991

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