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Top 30 Ilia Delio Quotes (2025 Update)

Ilia Delio Quote: “To follow Jesus is to be a wholemaker, essentially to love the world into new being and life.”

1. “To follow Jesus is to be a wholemaker, essentially to love the world into new being and life.”

Ilia Delio Quote: “God is Trinity because God is relationship in love. This God loves us totally and unconditionally to the extent that God shares with us the suffering of our lives.”

2. “God is Trinity because God is relationship in love. This God loves us totally and unconditionally to the extent that God shares with us the suffering of our lives.”

Ilia Delio Quote: “We humans are evolution made conscious; hence, our choices for and in the world shape the future of the world.”

3. “We humans are evolution made conscious; hence, our choices for and in the world shape the future of the world.”

Ilia Delio Quote: “The resurrection happens in the present moment, but it is a present moment bathed in future, a new relationship with God, a new union, a new wholeness – a new catholicity – by which life is wholly unified.”

4. “The resurrection happens in the present moment, but it is a present moment bathed in future, a new relationship with God, a new union, a new wholeness – a new catholicity – by which life is wholly unified.”

Ilia Delio Quote: “Contemplative vision is the vision that says “you are good as you are because you are the sacrament of God’s love.”

5. “Contemplative vision is the vision that says “you are good as you are because you are the sacrament of God’s love.”

Ilia Delio Quote: “Thomas Merton expresses the need for this mystical imperative: The Christian’s vision of the world ought, by its very nature, to have in it something of poetic inspiration. Our faith ought to be capable of filling our hearts with a wonder and a wisdom which see beyond the surface of things and events, and grasp something of the inner and “sacred” meaning of the cosmos which, in all its movements and all its aspects, sings the praises of its Creator and Redeemer.2.”

6. “Thomas Merton expresses the need for this mystical imperative: The Christian’s vision of the world ought, by its very nature, to have in it something of poetic inspiration. Our faith ought to be capable of filling our hearts with a wonder and a wisdom which see beyond the surface of things and events, and grasp something of the inner and “sacred” meaning of the cosmos which, in all its movements and all its aspects, sings the praises of its Creator and Redeemer.2.”

Ilia Delio Quote: “As Rahner puts it in another place, the resurrection is “the beginning of the transformation of the world as an ontologically interconnected occurrence.”34 The final destiny of the world is not only promised, but already begun. The risen Christ is the “pledge and beginning of the perfect fulfillment of the world.” He is the “representative of the new cosmos.”35.”

7. “As Rahner puts it in another place, the resurrection is “the beginning of the transformation of the world as an ontologically interconnected occurrence.”34 The final destiny of the world is not only promised, but already begun. The risen Christ is the “pledge and beginning of the perfect fulfillment of the world.” He is the “representative of the new cosmos.”35.”

Ilia Delio Quote: “Spiritual desire is the experience of God’s presence in us or it may be the absence of God as well, since a feeling of absence may stimulate a yearning for God. It is the experience of delightful love and fearful emptiness.”

8. “Spiritual desire is the experience of God’s presence in us or it may be the absence of God as well, since a feeling of absence may stimulate a yearning for God. It is the experience of delightful love and fearful emptiness.”

Ilia Delio Quote: “The new atheism has attracted considerable attention today, but apart from the public hype, it offers no substantial change or direction to modernity’s problems. Religion may be the opium of the masses but atheism offers no new yeast as leaven for the masses.”

9. “The new atheism has attracted considerable attention today, but apart from the public hype, it offers no substantial change or direction to modernity’s problems. Religion may be the opium of the masses but atheism offers no new yeast as leaven for the masses.”

Ilia Delio Quote: “God is the newness of everything that is and is coming to be. God is ever newness in love. Transcendence, therefore, is the future beyond that draws us in the present movement toward greater wholeness and unity.”

10. “God is the newness of everything that is and is coming to be. God is ever newness in love. Transcendence, therefore, is the future beyond that draws us in the present movement toward greater wholeness and unity.”

Ilia Delio Quote: “The cross and resurrection won the victory over evil, but it is the task of the Spirit, and those led by the Spirit, to implement that victory in and for the whole world. The victory is found not in the life of Jesus alone but in his death and resurrection. It is in the resurrection that the power of Jesus as the Christ is experienced.”

11. “The cross and resurrection won the victory over evil, but it is the task of the Spirit, and those led by the Spirit, to implement that victory in and for the whole world. The victory is found not in the life of Jesus alone but in his death and resurrection. It is in the resurrection that the power of Jesus as the Christ is experienced.”

Ilia Delio Quote: “God is the newest thing there is, the youngest thing there is. God is the beginning and if we are united to God we become new again.”

12. “God is the newest thing there is, the youngest thing there is. God is the beginning and if we are united to God we become new again.”

Ilia Delio Quote: “Secularization is not a zero-sum game necessitating the demise of supernaturalism. Nor does the new spirituality reject science. What it rejects is scientism in which the methodology and data of natural science alone are allowed to contribute to our understanding of the world and the human condition in it. The new spirituality also calls on natural science itself as a witness against the inadequacies of a purely secularized worldview.”

13. “Secularization is not a zero-sum game necessitating the demise of supernaturalism. Nor does the new spirituality reject science. What it rejects is scientism in which the methodology and data of natural science alone are allowed to contribute to our understanding of the world and the human condition in it. The new spirituality also calls on natural science itself as a witness against the inadequacies of a purely secularized worldview.”

Ilia Delio Quote: “From within the heart of matter, I hold together the foundations of the universe.”

14. “From within the heart of matter, I hold together the foundations of the universe.”

Ilia Delio Quote: “Describing Francis as the truly humble person, Bonaventure writes: “As Christ’s disciple he strove to regard himself as worthless in his own eyes and those of others. He used to make this statement frequently: ‘What a person is before God, that he is and no more.’”34.”

15. “Describing Francis as the truly humble person, Bonaventure writes: “As Christ’s disciple he strove to regard himself as worthless in his own eyes and those of others. He used to make this statement frequently: ‘What a person is before God, that he is and no more.’”34.”

Ilia Delio Quote: “The experience that the God we meet in prayer and in history actually loves us indicates, as we have seen, that we make a difference to the eternal God. The hope, then, is that nothing good is lost. Even though each and every accomplishment we achieve will eventually become space dust, and that dust may itself dissipate into cold cosmic darkness, we hope that God will not let our efforts turn to nothing. We hope and we sense that all is preserved in God.”

16. “The experience that the God we meet in prayer and in history actually loves us indicates, as we have seen, that we make a difference to the eternal God. The hope, then, is that nothing good is lost. Even though each and every accomplishment we achieve will eventually become space dust, and that dust may itself dissipate into cold cosmic darkness, we hope that God will not let our efforts turn to nothing. We hope and we sense that all is preserved in God.”

Ilia Delio Quote: “People who are reckless usually wind up in trouble because they do crazy things. Imagine being reckless for the kingdom of God. Just think what might happen. Friends of God loving one another around the earth. Heaven breaking open in our midst. We have the power to make this happen.”

17. “People who are reckless usually wind up in trouble because they do crazy things. Imagine being reckless for the kingdom of God. Just think what might happen. Friends of God loving one another around the earth. Heaven breaking open in our midst. We have the power to make this happen.”

Ilia Delio Quote: “Evolution means that nature does not operate according to fixed laws but by the dynamic interplay of law, chance, and deep time; that is, one cannot understand natural processes apart from developmental categories. The interaction of forces creates a dynamic process of unfolding life, pointing to the fact that nature is incomplete; there are no fixed essences. Instead, nature is consistently oriented toward new and complex life.”

18. “Evolution means that nature does not operate according to fixed laws but by the dynamic interplay of law, chance, and deep time; that is, one cannot understand natural processes apart from developmental categories. The interaction of forces creates a dynamic process of unfolding life, pointing to the fact that nature is incomplete; there are no fixed essences. Instead, nature is consistently oriented toward new and complex life.”

Ilia Delio Quote: “When we fail to appreciate Sophia’s presence at work in nature, we are also more likely to fail to appreciate the sacred.”

19. “When we fail to appreciate Sophia’s presence at work in nature, we are also more likely to fail to appreciate the sacred.”

Ilia Delio Quote: “The idea of a spiritually potent creation means that Jesus Christ is not an intrusion into an otherwise evolutionary universe but its reason and goal.”

20. “The idea of a spiritually potent creation means that Jesus Christ is not an intrusion into an otherwise evolutionary universe but its reason and goal.”

Ilia Delio Quote: “As far as theology is concerned, Christian understanding of the meaning of God, Christ, redemption, morality, and human existence is still weighed down by both prescientific and early modern cosmological assumptions.”

21. “As far as theology is concerned, Christian understanding of the meaning of God, Christ, redemption, morality, and human existence is still weighed down by both prescientific and early modern cosmological assumptions.”

Ilia Delio Quote: “With this new sense of moving forward, from simple to complex life forms, from bacteria to humans, science shows that evolution is more than a method of collecting and classifying the facts of life; rather it is the means by which humanity can move forward into the future.”

22. “With this new sense of moving forward, from simple to complex life forms, from bacteria to humans, science shows that evolution is more than a method of collecting and classifying the facts of life; rather it is the means by which humanity can move forward into the future.”

Ilia Delio Quote: “It implies also that there was a souring of “the earth’s sweet being in the beginning.” Long ago there occurred a besmirching of primordial innocence that has turned the history of human life and the practice of virtue into a project of restoration rather than one of joining ourselves to a universe that is still becoming more.”

23. “It implies also that there was a souring of “the earth’s sweet being in the beginning.” Long ago there occurred a besmirching of primordial innocence that has turned the history of human life and the practice of virtue into a project of restoration rather than one of joining ourselves to a universe that is still becoming more.”

Ilia Delio Quote: “Christ is both the One and the Many. William Thompson states that Merton’s view of the transcultural Christ means the emergence of “a person of such inner calm and personal and cultural detachment that she is capable of recognizing and perspectivizing the genuine values present in every person and every culture.”

24. “Christ is both the One and the Many. William Thompson states that Merton’s view of the transcultural Christ means the emergence of “a person of such inner calm and personal and cultural detachment that she is capable of recognizing and perspectivizing the genuine values present in every person and every culture.”

Ilia Delio Quote: “In Bonaventure’s view only one who is on a journey to God can really know God; faith seeks understanding through the path of love.”

25. “In Bonaventure’s view only one who is on a journey to God can really know God; faith seeks understanding through the path of love.”

Ilia Delio Quote: “But as urban life accelerated and expanded, it disrupted the old sense of order. This new way of living generated unprecedented social and political conflict and an increase in violence and aggression.”

26. “But as urban life accelerated and expanded, it disrupted the old sense of order. This new way of living generated unprecedented social and political conflict and an increase in violence and aggression.”

Ilia Delio Quote: “For the Franciscans, there is no such thing as “brute matter.”

27. “For the Franciscans, there is no such thing as “brute matter.”

Ilia Delio Quote: “As Francis deepened his relationship with Christ, the other became less outside Francis as object and more related to him as brother.”

28. “As Francis deepened his relationship with Christ, the other became less outside Francis as object and more related to him as brother.”

Ilia Delio Quote: “The future universal cannot be anything else but the hyperpersonal.”

29. “The future universal cannot be anything else but the hyperpersonal.”

Ilia Delio Quote: “Go, my dear brothers two by two through different parts of the word, announcing peace to the people and penance for the remission of sins.”5.”

30. “Go, my dear brothers two by two through different parts of the word, announcing peace to the people and penance for the remission of sins.”5.”

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