Faith is not a contract. Faith is surrender. If no other relationship in our experience is one of self-surrender, if it's all… — Francis George Copy Share Image
Every faith uses some kind of tool to understand itself better. Faith seeks understanding. The Western tradition has used philosophy to understand… — Francis George Copy Share Image
Interest in religion is not necessarily interest in God. Religion in public life means a set of ideas, an ideology that has… — Francis George Copy Share Image
Religion doesn't start with a set of laws or rules and it doesn't start with a set of ideas. It starts with… — Francis George Copy Share Image
We [Americans] have secularized the public life of our country in such a way to say something is religious is something negative.… — Francis George Copy Share Image
God's is the causality at the level of our being, and therefore the roots of our freedom. Ours in causality is determinative of what… — Francis George Copy Share Image
The fact that God knows everything does not mean that He is directly causing everything. He respects our freedom at our level. He makes… — Francis George Copy Share Image
If you're going to say you're Catholic, you inform your conscience so that you're activities will conform to what God is telling us through… — Francis George Copy Share Image
So, in every case if you really love someone there is an element of submission to them because you want what's best for them,… — Francis George Copy Share Image
That question in marriage is mutual submission, really - the next verse goes on: "husbands love your wife as Christ loves the Church." — Francis George Copy Share Image
Equality, therefore, becomes the criterion because we can handle all that in process, but we can't handle that as principle without infringing on freedom. — Francis George Copy Share Image
Law is a process. If there is equality of process for everybody, then that's our definition of justice. Whether or not what is done… — Francis George Copy Share Image
He [God] made us free, and He respects that. It is two different spheres of causality. Interdependent, though. It is not two boxes looking… — Francis George Copy Share Image
Christ didn't leave us a book of instructions; He left us a body, a family - a Church. If it were perfectly clear, there… — Francis George Copy Share Image
From a Christian perspective, the answer to all of that is not power, as it is in the modern perspective. It's love. It's self-sacrifice.… — Francis George Copy Share Image
The presumption that the law can tell us what natural institution is supposed to be is a formula for totalitarianism. There's not equality in… — Francis George Copy Share Image
The trust is a matter of love and faith is a matter of truth. The two together give you the guidance that you look… — Francis George Copy Share Image
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