Quotes by Romano Guardini

Romano Guardini (1885–1968) — Theologe · Katholisch · Deutschland

Romano Guardini (1885–1968) war ein katholischer Priester, Religionsphilosoph und Theologe, der im 20. Jahrhundert vor allem in Berlin, Tübingen und München lehrte. Er profilierte sich als Vordenker der Liturgischen Bewegung und verband theologische Fragen mit moderner Kultur- und Existenzphilosophie, was ihm zeitweise Kritik aus konservativ-neuscholastischen Kreisen einbrachte. Für Bibelleser eröffnen seine Schriften, insbesondere das Werk „Der Herr“, einen existenziellen Zugang zu den biblischen Texten und verknüpfen theologische Reflexion mit persönlicher Glaubenspraxis.

Era: The 20th Century

Recurring topics: Meaning & Identity, God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit, Peace & Rest, Faith & Trust, Service & Love of Neighbour, Love, Wisdom & Understanding, Ethical Questions

Quotes by Romano Guardini

Security in the ultimate gives serenity in the penultimate.
Romano Guardini

Death is the side facing us of that whole whose other side is called resurrection.
Romano Guardini

Just as a candle is lit from the flame of another, so faith is kindled by faith.
Romano Guardini

God does not demand that we never grow weak, but that we always begin again with good will.
Romano Guardini

For the greatest things are accomplished in silence—not in the clamor and display of superficial eventfulness, but in the deep clarity of inner vision; in the almost imperceptible start of decision, in quiet overcoming and hidden sacrifice.
Romano Guardini

Doubt is not healed by pressure, but requires reverence, patience, and time.
Romano Guardini

It is the quiet forces that carry life.
Romano Guardini

Carried by faith, gratitude can also reach into what is hard, and to the extent that this succeeds, it is transformed.
Romano Guardini

We do not pray to let God know what we want, for He knows our heart better than we know it ourselves; but whoever prays lives before Him, toward Him, from Him, gives God what is His, and receives what He wants to give.
Romano Guardini

Jesus' whole existence is the translation of power into humility.
Romano Guardini

This is the deepest meaning of all hospitality: that one person gives another rest on the great journey home to their eternal home.
Romano Guardini

Christmas is not only the feast of those who give, but also of those who have nothing to give or no one to give it to.
Romano Guardini

None of the great things in human life springs from the intellect; every one of them issues from the heart and its love.
Romano Guardini

With birth, a unique word is, as it were, given to the human being.
Romano Guardini

The path to a truthful future begins with accepting oneself.
Romano Guardini

The childhood of Jesus reveals the quiet, unobtrusive way of divine love.
Romano Guardini

The whole of life consists of opportunities to meet Jesus.
Romano Guardini

The longer one lives, the more clearly one sees that the simple things are the truly greatest.
Romano Guardini

One should speak the truth in such a way that it does not destroy, but builds up.
Romano Guardini

The task of Christian life is to translate Christ into one's own existence.
Romano Guardini

One must learn to love in order to be able to be just.
Romano Guardini

Asceticism means that a man resolves to live as a man.
Romano Guardini

Man has always mistreated what was important to him, for his love does not have a tender hand.
Romano Guardini

In the long run, one cannot be a good Christian without praying - just as one cannot live without breathing.
Romano Guardini

The personal word of life is at once strength and weakness, task and promise.
Romano Guardini

Community arises where people become inwardly present to one another.
Romano Guardini

In silence man gathers himself; there the responsible word can arise.
Romano Guardini

Distraction breaks life apart; recollection leads it to unity.
Romano Guardini

A person cannot redeem themselves. Redemption is God's work. It is fully accomplished. The individual only needs to accept it.
Romano Guardini

Only through the mystery of God does the mystery of our being human receive an answer that does not dissolve the mystery but accepts and deepens it.
Romano Guardini

The other human being must never become a mere It; he encounters me as a person.
Romano Guardini

The real Jesus Christ does not reveal Himself to neutral observation, but to living faith.
Romano Guardini

Power becomes human when it understands itself as service to what is right.
Romano Guardini

At the end stands the yes to one's own historical hour – and the task of shaping it.
Romano Guardini

Ultimately, man understands himself only from his relationship with God.
Romano Guardini

Grant, O Lord, the joy in your glory. If we have it, we are rich.
Romano Guardini

From the beginning, man is designed toward another who alone lets him come to himself. Here the deeply personal, yet incomprehensible, Thou of God comes into play.
Romano Guardini

The Rosary is not a road, but a place, and it has no goal but a depth. To linger in it has great compensations.
Romano Guardini

Serving strength that desires the things of the earth to be made right.
Romano Guardini

Freedom presupposes vigilance and a sense of responsibility.
Romano Guardini

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Sources: wikipedia.org, st-ludwig-muenchen.de, adoremus.org, deutschlandfunk.de

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