God is utterly simple; for every composite being necessarily has a cause of its own composition, and so, since God is the first principle of all things, there can be no real composition whatever in God. Now, in an utterly… — Bernard Lonergan Copy Share Image
Thoroughly understand what it is to understand, and not only will you understand the broad lines of all there is to be understood but… — Bernard Lonergan Copy Share Image
It is in the measure that special methods acknowledge their common core in transcendental method, that norms common to all the sciences will be… — Bernard Lonergan Copy Share Image
Total surrender to the demands of the human spirit: be attentive, be intelligent, be reasonable, be responsible, be in love. — Bernard Lonergan Copy Share Image
For it is in the field where meaning is constitutive that man's freedom reaches its highest point. There too his responsibility is greatest. There… — Bernard Lonergan Copy Share Image
The church always arrives on the scene a little breathless and a little late. — Bernard Lonergan Copy Share Image
No matter what your logic is, if it is coherent, you can develop a technique to express it. — Bernard Lonergan Copy Share Image
Freely the subject makes himself what he is, never in this life is the making finished, always it is in process, always it is… — Bernard Lonergan Copy Share Image
“To demand the absolute and to be content with absolutely nothing else results in a skepticism.” — Bernard Lonergan Copy Share Image
Faith ... is a conscious apprehension of something inevident, something which unlike this desk and this chair is not seen to be there, even… — Bernard Lonergan Copy Share Image
Discovery is new beginning. It is the origin of new rules that supplement, or even supplant, the old. Genius is creative. It is genius… — Bernard Lonergan Copy Share Image
The fulfilment that is being in love with God is not the product of our knowledge and choice. It is God's gift. Like all… — Bernard Lonergan Copy Share Image
