Michael von Faulhaber quotes

Outside Palestine the ancient East treated women as slaves without rights... in the fourth commandment, Thou shalt honour thy father and thy mother, the mother is set upon the same level as the father in the eyes of the children. Such reverence for women was not revealed by oriental 'flesh and blood. (Michael von Faulhaber)
These ten commandments come to us as a Divine Revelation, as a document signed by God Himself [-] But these books contain a higher wisdom besides. Not the wisdom of the street corners, nor the wisdom of the learned schools, but the conduct which God requires of us. View quote
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The times are not far distant when we used to hear the cry in Communistic circles: 'Private property is a theft from the people.' Fortunately these voices are now silenced. View quote
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...among no people of the pre-Christian era do we find so great a number of intellectually prominent men who, by their words and by their whole personality, have devoted themselves to the religious guidance of their nation, as among the people of the early Bible... our Germanists would do well to notice... the science of religions is able to make the comparison; and to the people of Israel it will award this certificate: You have excelled them all by the sublimity of your religion... View quote
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So everyone, through Christ and with Him and in Him, must fulfil the Old Testament in himself. Only then have we passed from the kingdom of the shadows of the Old Testament into the kingdom of the light of the Gospel, from the letter of the service of God to the spirit of Divine sonship, from Judaism to Christianity... View quote
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...the most serious charges are made nowadays, not against the religious values of the Old Testament, but against its ethical values.... the Sacred Scriptures of the Old Testament, which all Christians, of whatever denomination, treat with reverence, are spoken of in blasphemous terms which may not be repeated in this holy place. View quote
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In recent years the fourth commandment has been stigmatized as un-German because it proposes a reward for its observance... on November I3th, 1933, the German Christians passed the following resolution : We expect our national Churches to shake themselves free of all that is un-German, in particular of the Old Testament and its Jewish morality of rewards... But it is not true to say that the fourth commandment teaches children a mercenary attitude with regard to God, that it encourages and consecrates an un-German spirit of self-seeking. View quote
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Notwithstanding all the guidance of divine grace Israel did not know the time of her visitation. [-] The great majority of the people rejected the Messiah with the cry: 'His blood be upon us and upon our children. View quote
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For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision ; but a new creature. View quote
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The God of the New Testament is not a different God from the God of the Old. View quote
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Let us venerate the Scriptures of the Old Testament. (Michael von Faulhaber)
I should not understand my own religion, had I no reverence for yours. View quote
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Some have indeed tried to save Him with a forged birth-certificate, and have said that He was not a Jew at all but an Aryan. View quote
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If we are to repudiate the Old Testament and banish it from our schools and from our national libraries, then we must disown our German classics. View quote
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It is only with this Israel of the early biblical period that I shall deal in my Advent sermons. View quote
Michael von Faulhaber
Cardinal Manning once said to the Jews : * I should not understand my own religion, had I no reverence for yours. Let us venerate the Scriptures of the Old Testament! And let us not allow Bible history to be abolished in our schools ! View quote
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