Virtue Means Quotes by Andrew Davison

“Reading is a practice; good reading is a highly sophisticated practice. The practice has to be learnt.”

— Andrew Davison

“The Church knows fully that its message is in harmony with the most secret desires of the human heart, when it champions the dignity…

— Andrew Davison

“The Church is a living body; continuously active, continuously performing Christ in the myriad contexts within which it operates. It comprises those conformed to…

— Andrew Davison

“he believed that all language, except for the most basic and elementary, was metaphorical, and even the highly desiccated metaphors are not verbal algebra.”

— Andrew Davison

“among the most important things to consider when it comes to gaining the skills of Christian living are things like discipline, physical actions, training…

— Andrew Davison

“Christianity does not displace scientific accounts of the world; rather, it lends them ontological depth and clarity, and in doing so, discloses a greater…

— Andrew Davison

“We are given no escape from ultimate questions. In one way or another they are in us, whether we like it or not. Scientific…

— Andrew Davison

“Reason cannot operate without imagination.”

— Andrew Davison

“The apologist can ask what literature and film reveal about the inchoate theological stirrings of our times.”

— Andrew Davison

“Doctrines, though useful, are the product of analytical dissection; they recast the original, equivocal, historical material into abstract, less fully realized categories of meaning.…

— Andrew Davison

“The famous injunction, normally attributed to Saint Francis, to ‘preach the gospel at all times; use words if necessary’, like many timeworn phrases, contains…

— Andrew Davison

“Christian ethics makes sense of human life from a moral perspective, presenting us with a vision of what it means to be a flourishing…

— Andrew Davison

“As an apologetic strategy, it only makes sense to meet people where they are. Where else, indeed, can they be met?”

— Andrew Davison

“although apologetics is ‘a reasoned defence’, its basis is necessarily imaginative, for reason cannot work without imagination.”

— Andrew Davison

“Take the Gospel parables: what are these stories, these narratives, if not powerful invitations to people to locate themselves within the situations of others,…

— Andrew Davison