Quotes by Timothy Radcliffe

Timothy Radcliffe (b. 1945) — Dominikaner, Kardinal · Katholisch · Großbritannien

Timothy Radcliffe (* 1945) ist ein britischer römisch-katholischer Theologe, Dominikaner und Kardinal, der von 1992 bis 2001 als Generalmagister seines Ordens wirkte und international als Prediger tätig ist. Er steht für eine Theologie des Dialogs und der seelsorglichen Offenheit, stößt jedoch mit seinen pastoralen Positionen zur Homosexualität auf Kritik konservativer katholischer Kreise. Bibellesern vermittelt er Zugänge zur Schrift, die theologische Tiefe mit existenziellen Alltagsfragen und einer hoffnungsvollen Glaubenspraxis verbinden.

Era: Today

Recurring topics: Love, Relationships & Family, Faith & Trust, Church & Congregation, Hope & Confidence, Meaning & Identity, Grace & Redemption, Service & Love of Neighbour

Quotes by Timothy Radcliffe

Hope is not optimism but the confidence that all that we live, all our confusion and pain, will somehow be seen to have meaning.
Timothy Radcliffe

Whatever is your home, God comes to dwell in it.
Timothy Radcliffe

Wherever we are and whatever we have done, God comes to stay.
Timothy Radcliffe

God has made himself at home in us with all our scandalous limitations for ever.
Timothy Radcliffe

We do small good deeds and let the Lord of the harvest give them the fruit he wishes.
Timothy Radcliffe

It feels better to be seen as an enemy than not to be seen at all.
Timothy Radcliffe

Despair is not pessimism. It is the terror that nothing makes sense anymore.
Timothy Radcliffe

At home we are affirmed as we are and invited to be more. Home is where we are known, loved and safe but challenged to embark on the adventure of faith.
Timothy Radcliffe

We are all radically incomplete and need each other.
Timothy Radcliffe

Parents and teachers are ministers of hope.
Timothy Radcliffe

We see those who are invisible and smile on those who feel ashamed.
Timothy Radcliffe

To love is to come home to someone.
Timothy Radcliffe

We must enlarge the tent of our sympathy to those who think differently.
Timothy Radcliffe

Every living creature needs a home if it is to flourish.
Timothy Radcliffe

We need the Church, our present home for all its weaknesses, but also to breathe the Spirit-filled oxygen of our future home without boundaries.
Timothy Radcliffe

All theology springs from tension, which bends the bow to shoot the arrow.
Timothy Radcliffe

When liturgies are changed or churches demolished, people experience great pain, as if their home in the Church is being destroyed.
Timothy Radcliffe

Our lives are nourished by beloved traditions and devotions. If they are lost, we grieve.
Timothy Radcliffe

If we open our hearts to each other, wonderful things will happen.
Timothy Radcliffe

The one who had been on the periphery, because of his illness, because of his sexual orientation and most of all because he was now dead, was at the centre.
Timothy Radcliffe

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