"For God remains God and does not change, and Jesus is a real, genuine, and finite man with his own experiences, in adoration before the incomprehensibility of God, a free and obedient man, like us in all things." – "I Believe in Jesus Christ", Theological Investigations IX.10

"...a body in its constituent parts or something similar, by means of which God himself renders himself visible on the stage of his world's history. But both interpretations of this statement are nonsensical and contrary to what Christian dogma really intends to say."

"If we say 'God is made man' in the ready-made patterns of our everyday speech, we either think automatically of God being changed into a man or else we understand the content of the word 'man' in this context as an outer garment..."

"But if we listen closely to what *real* Christian doctrine says about the God-man, we notice that there is nothing to be 'demythologised' in this fundamental dogma, but that it only needs to be understood correctly to be *completely orthodox and at the same time worthy of belief.*"

"Every sin is at root merely the refusal to entrust himself to this boundlessness; it is a lesser love which, because it refuses to become the greater, is no longer love at all." – "Theology of Freedom", Theological Investigations VI.13, 1964

"The only ultimate structure of the person which manages to express it completely is the basic capacity of love, and this is without measure. Thus man too is boundless."

– "Behold This Heart!": Preliminaries to a Theology of Devotion to the Sacred Heart, 1953, Theological Investigations III.21

From "Thomas Aquinas as Monk, Theologian, and Mystic", 1949

"...that in their very essence they do not belong to the past but are past only in that they have sped ahead of us into the future, the future we have yet to meet: dominus cum sanctis suis ("The Lord with his saints") all of this is more true than we ourselves are."

"...that the essence of their life remains by their eternal salvation embedded also in the ground of all reality by which history remains, including the history that has occurred after them and is yet to come..."

"The fact that they are, that they are with God, that they love us, that we love them, that they intercede for us who are their brothers and sisters in the unending liturgy of heaven..."

"They are alive. They live in complete fulfillment, hence in true reality, which is powerful and present. Those who can be called by name are true reality, are what matters more than theoretical principles and abstract theories."

“But theologians are never spared the task of prompt renewal. Anything which is merely conserved, or which is merely handed down without a fresh, personal exertion beginning at the very sources of Revelation, rots as the manna did.” – "The Prospects for Dogmatic Theology", TI I

"...and by attempting to pursue theology without formal and continuing dialogue with the Church, its teaching office, and its theological history." - "A Theology We Can Live With", Theological Investigations XXI

"...or the first half of the twentieth century. But that is a far cry from saying that the only way young theologians can make their theology studies relevant today is by being asinine enough to eschew all contact with the doctrinal decisions of the Church..."

"...then their theology must really be an ecclesial one, and it must have in principle an open and positive relationship to the ecclesial teaching office. Those days are certainly gone when theology could be a Denziger theology in the neoscholastic style of the nineteenth century..."

"...but say something to us which we in our time have not considered at all or not closely enough, about reality itself." - "The Prospects for Dogmatic Theology", Theological Investigations I