Religion and Society Complete Sources

Flashcards matching foundational religious, scriptural, papal, and theological citations to their corresponding quotes and teachings.

Teresa of Ávila (1515-1583)

"Christ has no body now but yours"

St. Augustine's Confessions (Book I, Chapter 1)

"You are great, O Lord"

Catechism of the Catholic Church (1994), §27

"The desire to be with God is written in the human heart, as man is created by God and for God"

Philippians 2:1

"Do nothing out of self conceit, but in humility regard others as better than yourself"

2 Corinthians 5:8

"I say and would prefer to be away from my body and at home with the Lord"

John 14:2-3

"My fathers house has many rooms.. I wil l go there and prepare a place for you"

Romans 14:8

"Whether we live or die, we belong to the lord"

John 11:25-26

"The one who believes wil l live even though he dies"

John R. W. Stott (The Cross of Christ)

"In a world ful l of pain, how could one worship a God immune to it"

St Augustines Confessions Chapter VII Book I

"Thy sight none is pure from sin, not even the infant whose life is but a day upon the earth"

Romans 5:3-5

"But we also glory in our suffering, because we know it produces perseverance, hope and character"

Genesis 2:15

"The lord took man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and take care of it"

Pope Francis (Laudato Si', §67)

"Each community should take what it needs… and ensure its fruitfulness for generations to come"

1 Peter 2:24

"He himself bore our sins in his body on the cross, so that we may die for sins and live for righteousness"

John 13:15

"I have set an example for you, that you should do for others as I have done for you"

John 15:13

"Greater love has no one than this; To lay down one's life for friends"

John 19:30

"It is finished"

Pope Francis (12 April 2017 Paragraph 3)

"There on the Cross, our hope is born and is always born again"

John 1:5

"The light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome"

Romans 6:4

"We are buried with him by Baptism to death, with hope that we may too walk with newness of life"

Romero, "Educación liberadora, pero cristiana y sin demagogia", Orientación, No. 54, 27 May 1973.

"Education does not remain, with dangerous ambiguity, merely on the surface of sociopolitical considerations"

Óscar Romero, "La Más Profunda Revolución Social," Diario de Oriente, No. 30,867, p. 1, 28 August 1973.

"The Most profound social revolution is the serious, supernatural, interior reform of a Christian"

Óscar Romero (March 1977- Good in the face of evil)

"We want to tel l you murderous brothers, that we love you… because the church cannot hate"

Oscar Romero (March 1977 Interpretation)

"If they have kil led him for doing what I should do, then I too must walk the same path"

Jon Sobrino, S.J., Archbishop Romero: Memories and Reflections, Orbis Books, Maryknoll, New York, 1990, pp. 9-10.

"The moment the scale from his eyes"

María López Vigil, La voz de los sin voz: La palabra viva de Monseñor Romero, San Salvador, 1986, p. 461

"A Bishop wil l die, but the church of God wil l never perish"

Óscar Romero (The Violence of Love, p. 167)

"These homilies try to be this people's voice. They try to be the voice of those who have no voice."

Óscar Romero (The Violence of Love, p. 41)

"Peace is not the product of terror or fear. Peace is not the silent result of violent repression."

Óscar Romero (The Violence of Love, p. 4)

"The Gospel demands more commitment to history."

Matthew 25:40

"Whatever you have done to the least of these brothers and sisters, you have done for me"

Psalm 93:1

"The world is firmly established; it cannot be moved."

Galileo Galilei (1615, §18)

"I think that in discussions of physical problems we ought to begin not from the authority of scriptural passages but from experiments and necessary demonstrations"

Galileo Galilei (1615, §20)

"But I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason and intel lect has intended us to forego their use"

Consultant's Report on Copernicanism (24 February 1616)

"Formal ly heretical since it explicitly contradicts many places the sense of Holy Scripture"

Roman Inquisition (22 June 1633)

"Vehemently suspected of heresy by this Holy Office"

David H. DeVorkin, quoted in Julie Mianecki, "378 Years Ago Today: Galileo Forced to Recant," Smithsonian Magazine, 22 June 2011.

"Made the universe physical… People had to ask, 'Where in the world is heaven?'"

Pope Pius XI (6 September 1938)- Catholic Radio to Belgians on a pilgrimage

"Spiritual ly, we are al l Semites."

Pope Pius XI (Mit Brennender Sorge, §8)

"Whoever exalts race, or the people, or the State… divinises them to an idolatrous level."

Pope Pius Wednesday, May 13, 1942

"We are of absolute impartiality toward al l bel ligerents…"

Nostra Aetate (1965, §4) - Jews

"The Jews should not be presented as rejected or accursed by God."

Nostra Aetate (1965, §4) - Anti-semitism

"The Church… decries hatred, persecutions and displays of antisemitism directed against Jews at any time and by anyone."

Pope Francis (5 November 2018 § 4)

"A Christian cannot be an anti-Semite; we share the same roots."

Genesis 1:26

"Let us make mankind in our image, after our likeness."

Leviticus 19:33-34

"When a stranger resides with you in your land, you shal l not oppress the stranger… you shal l love the stranger as yourself"

Matthew 9:13

"I desire mercy, not sacrifice."

Matthew 25:35

"I was a stranger and you welcomed me."

Pope Francis (Angelus, 6 September 2015, Appeal Section)

"May every parish, every religious community, every monastery, every sanctuary of Europe, take in one family."

Pope Francis (14th of January 2019 Migrants Day)

"Welcome, protect, promote and integrate."

Pope Francis (General Audience , §3 Wednesday, 21 May 2014) - Gift

"Creation is a gift, it is the marvel lous gift that God has given us, so that we wil l take care of it"

Laudato Si' §84 (2015) - Caress

"Soil, water, mountains: everything is, as it were, a caress of God."

World peace day (1990, §5)

"When man turns his back on the Creator's plan he provokes a disorder which has inevitable repercussions on the created order."

Redemptor Hominis 1979 §45

" The threat of pol lution… shows a lack of respect for the unborn"

Catechism of the Catholic Church, §2415

"Man's dominion over inanimate and other living beings granted by the Creator is not absolute."

Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed

"One God Maker of heaven and earth, of al l things visible and invisible."

Laudato Si' §139 (2015)

"We are not faced with two separate crises… but rather one complex crisis that is both social and environmental."

Thomas Berry (The Dream of the Earth, p. 46)

"To wantonly destroy a living species is to silence forever a divine voice"

Numbers 35:34

"Do not defile the land, where you live and where I dwel l, for I the lord dwel l among the Israelites"

Genesis 1:29

"I give every green plant for food."