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 being in love, as distinct from particular acts of loving, it is a first principle. So… — Bernard Lonergan Copy Share Image
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
