Quotes from Jacques Maritain
I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops, and it seems it will engulf everything. Wait a moment, another current will appear and bring the first one to naught.
- Jacques Maritain
In loving things and the being in them man should rather draw things up to the human level than reduce humanity to their measure.
- Jacques Maritain
There is no place in the world but contains some trace of God.
- Jacques Maritain
Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so damn serious.
- Jacques Maritain
God's love causes the beauty of what He loves, our love is caused by the beauty of what we love.
- Jacques Maritain
We do not need a truth to serve us, we need a truth that we can serve.
- Jacques Maritain
Whereas the intelligence of God is both the cause and the measure of the truth of things, things are both the cause and the measure of the truth of our intelligence.
- Jacques Maritain
To redeem creation the saint wages war on the entire fabric of creation, with the bare weapons of truth and love.
- Jacques Maritain
Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.
- Jacques Maritain
The philosopher says that God's knowledge is the measure of things, and that things are the measure of man's knowledge.
- Jacques Maritain
A true Christian is a man who never for a moment forgets what God has done for him in Christ and whose whole comportment and whose activity have their root in the sentiment of gratitude.
- Jacques Maritain
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
- Jacques Maritain