5 Quotes by Herbert McCabe

If you do not love, you will not be alive; if you love effectively, you will be killed.

Theology is that discipline whereby we stop talking nonsense about God.

When God forgives our sin, he is not changing his mind about us; he is changing our mind about him.

Poetry is language trying to become bodily experience.

Revolution is not intelligible and certainly not reasonable within the thought forms and language of this current world; revolution requires faith. When he speaks of the new world, the world to come, the revolutionary cannot describe it as a change of conditions within this world which, upon calculation, will be found to be preferable, he can only speak in parables, hoping that he will awaken his listener to share his vision and faith.