Antonio López

“Education is the continuation in time of the mystery of our own birth. This means that we have been given the task of brining finite being to completion—ours included—through our knowing it, loving it, and unfolding the design and project it contains.”

“For a human being, there is nothing as important to be truly himself as begging with all of himself for his own being.”

“[T]he Holy Spirit is both Christ’s forerunner and his paranymph, the one who brings the bride to the beloved spouse and allows her to give herself to him ‘who did not prefer anything to us.’”

“This reciprocal working of Son and Spirit through each other in fulfillment of the Father’s sending is the way in which the triune God concretely opens himself up to Mary and, even more astonishingly, with Mary, so that through her the human being may finally be what he was created to be.”

“In the saint’s life and work, human existence, with all its drama and questions, meets God’s eternal and ever-new Incarnate Word spoken to man in his historical time.”

“Only because the primal ground of the mystery of God is an eternal gratuity—an unfathomable unity of being and letting-be—can there be something that is not God that is still good for it to be.”

“[N]ot only the individual, but precisely the communion between human persons is that for the sake of which being is personally given by God.”

“If the Marian Church were not the Bride of Christ, the ordained priest would be deprived of both the possibility of an authentic gift of self and of his very fatherhood.”

“To participate in God is also to participate in the Son’s taking flesh through his filial relation with Mary.”

“It is only in man’s being male and female that the personal is rooted in the natural and that the natural maintains a fruitful openness to the personal.”

Christ’s revelation of God’s triune love shows how seriously God takes his creatures’ thirst for unity.

"Same-sex 'marriage' therefore rests upon overturning the three different yet inseparable elements . . . : sexually differentiated spouses, unifying love in which the sexual difference is preserved, and fruitfulness."

"Indissolubility, the incapacity of being dissolved, is the truth of giving."

“Mary’s faith . . . [reveals] that faith is the unconditional assent given to the three-fold union of love that God wishes to establish with man: filial, nuptial, and fruitful.”

"The first Christian cultural revolution is precisely the Christian whose existence is held together and moved by the love of Christ."

“Christ embraces everyone (Col 3:11) because he is the truth of God and man in person, the destiny of man’s history.”

“For Giussani, experience is ‘bumping into a sign, an objective reality that moves the person toward his telos, toward his destiny.’”

“The divine triunity is one of communion only because the origin of the divinity is the Father who possesses himself as always already given away.”

“Mary, God’s most beautiful child, helps man to become, as she is, a gratuitous longing for God. She intercedes so that man may, as she did, become prayer.”

“What is reasonable is not what corresponds to reason’s self-determined a priori conditions of knowledge; it is rather what aids reason in the fulfilment of its telos , i.e., to contemplate the origin without which human existence becomes il-logical .”

“Restlessness is the ‘movement’ of abiding in a relation with the divine communion, a relation that constantly enlarges the human being so that he may grow ever more, from glory to glory.”

“Eternity is the superabundant and groundless being that reveals itself in Christ as the truth of love.”

"God is an event of love."