“God gives us not only the truth but also the ability to believe it; not only the new thing to see but also the new eye to see it with.”
“God sees us with the eyes of a Father. He sees our defects, errors and blemishes. But He also sees our value.”
“Let's call this then, only half facetiously, a new patristic, in which the intellectual is charged with the task not only to denounce error and unmask illusions, and not only to incarnate the mechanisms of new practices of knowledge, but also, together with others in a process of co-research, to produce a new truth. -- Commonwealth, 118”
“The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.”
“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”
“Night is a time of rigor, but also of mercy. There are truths which one can see only when it’s dark”