Religion

“محور حياتي هو تدارس ديني وتعويض ما فاتني في طاعة الله.”

“أنا بطريركُ الموارنة، طائفتي لبنان، وأنا لكلِّ اللبنانيّين”

“Honest to God touched a nerve.”

“The person and message of Jesus was so attractive and contagious that it spread rapidly into the four corners of the world.”

“I hope to be remembered as a “voice” (like John the Baptist, crying in the wilderness) encouraging people to think, rather than as a personality whose felt status and charisma stopped them thinking.”

“People didn’t have the moral sanction to kill even during the Partition.”

“religious faith and philosophical doubt in a sense belong together”

“We are a community of faith that comes together to worship Christ, to obey His mission together.”

“If my countrymen could fear God, serve God, would we not be able to revive the age of the sage emperors?”

“That is a human creation that arbitrarily makes the heart of Heaven and Earth into something very small.”

“Меня в Бирме считали богом.”

“People in the Arab world have to realise that when they go to elections, they elect not necessarily the person they like, not the person of their religion, or his tribe - and this is a big disaster.”

“The Constitution certainly does not overlook the distinctive teaching authority of the hierarchy.”

“Attention is the natural prayer of the soul.”

“There is no socially and politically neutral theology; in the struggle for life and against death, theology must take sides.”

“The context that gives meaning to what we think and do is determined by two things: the religions of Asia and the poor of Asia.”

“TAO lang ako, Diyos ko (I’m a human being, my God).”

“I know theology is not divinity; to me it is very human.”