#2,987

Concerning himself intensely with his neighbor’s condition allows the Christian to dissimulate to himself his doubts about the divinity of Christ and the existence of God.
Charity can be the most subtle form of apostasy.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 477

#2,983

The Gospels and the Communist Manifesto are on the wane; the world’s future lies in the power of Coca-Cola and pornography.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 477

#2,976

Where Christianity disappears, greed, envy, and lust invent a thousand ideologies to justify themselves.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 475

#2,971

The progressive Christian’s error lies in believing that Christianity’s perennial polemic against the rich is an implicit defense of socialist programs.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 474

#2,961

Nothing upsets the unbeliever as much as defenses of Christianity based on intellectual skepticism and internal experience.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 473

#2,956

The modern clergy believe they can bring man closer to Christ by insisting on Christ’s humanity.
Thus forgetting that we do not trust in Christ because He is man, but because He is God.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 472

#2,950

Why not imagine the possibility, after several centuries of Soviet hegemony, of the conversion of a new Constantine?

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 471

#2,923

The Christian knows with certainty what his personal behavior should be, but he can never state for certain that he is not making a mistake by adopting this or that social reform.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 467

#2,910

The true Christian should not resign himself to the inevitable: he should trust in the impertinence of a repeated prayer.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 465

#2,887

The Christian does not pretend that the problems posed by religion have been solved; instead, he transcends them.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 462

#2,867

When it comes to knowledge of man, there is no Christian (provided he is not a progressive Christian) whom anybody has anything to teach.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 459

#2,843

The Church’s function is not to adapt Christianity to the world, nor even to adapt the world to Christianity; her function is to maintain a counterworld in the world.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 455

#2,839

What concerns the Christ of the Gospels is not the economic situation of the poor man, but the moral condition of the rich man.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 455

#2,808

Even though they are full of threats, I fail to see anything in the Gospels but promises.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 450

#2,801

After experiencing what an age practically without religion consists of, Christianity is learning to write the history of paganism with respect and sympathy.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 449

#2,753

Man is important only if it is true that a God has died for him.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 442

#2,732

Those who replace the “letter” of Christianity with its “spirit” generally turn it into a load of socio-economic nonsense.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 439

#2,712

The modern clergy declare that Christianity seeks to solve earthly problems—thereby confusing it with utopia.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 436

#2,704

Souls that Christianity does not prune never mature.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 435

#2,611

To want Christianity not to make absurd demands is to ask it to renounce the demands that move our heart.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 422