4 Quotes by Jean Daniélou

It is at the name of Jesus, the Christ made man, that every knee is to bend in heaven. The overwhelming revelation made to the angels in the mystery of the Ascension is not that they are to adore the Eternal Word --- that is already the object of their liturgy; but rather, they are to adore the Word Incarnate --- and that overturns all of heaven, just as the Incarnation revolutionized all the earth.

We have only to see how that which makes up the reality of our lives relates to our vocation; we have only to hear the call God makes to us to work with him. Quite often it is not a matter of doing something different, but doing it differently.

The real “opium of the people”, distracting men’s minds from their essential task, is the communist myth of an earthly paradise.

The most dangerous tendency of the modern world is the way in which bogus theories are given the force of dogma.