Quotes about Foundation

Our form of government has no sense unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith, and I don't care what it is.

Good order is the foundation of all good things.

The highest principles for our aspirations and judgements are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition. It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our aspirations and valuations.

But being ruined by taxes is not the worst you have to fear. What security would you have for your lives? How can any of you be sure you would have the free enjoyment of your religion long? Would you put your religion in the power of any set of men living? Remember civil and religious liberty always go together: if the foundation of the one be sapped, the other will fail of course.

Consider a tree for a moment. As beautiful as trees are to look at, we don't see what goes on underground - as they grow roots. Trees must develop deep roots in order to grow strong and produce their beauty. But we don't see the roots. We just see and enjoy the beauty. In much the same way, what goes on inside of us is like the roots of a tree.

We cannot build up the idea of the apostolate of the laity without the foundation of the liturgy.

We cannot have the fruits of the gospel without its roots.

Jesus praised faith and trust — even more than love. It takes a foundational trust to fall, or to fail, and not to fall apart.

Unless you build your first house well, you will never leave it. To build your house well is, ironically, to be nudged beyond its doors.

Love is the one eternal thing and takes away your foundational fear of death. This is very good stuff.

Until you meet a benevolent God and a benevolent universe, until you realize that the foundation of all is love, you will not be at home in this world.

Reality, creation, nature itself, what I call the "the First Body of Christ," has no choice in the matter of necessary suffering. It lives the message without saying yes or no to it. It holds and resolves all the foundational forces, all the elementary principles and particles within itself—willingly it seems.