Quotes from Jean Daniélou

St. Irenaeus said, that "man exists in order to see God.

Augustine has defined sin as the "love of self to the neglect of God" and opposes to this the "love of God to the neglect of self

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.

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

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