Jean-Luc Marion

"What if God did not have first to be, since he loved us first, when we were not? And what if, to envisage him, we did not have to wait for him within the horizon of Being, but rather transgress oursel…"

"The idol depends on the gaze that it satisfies, since if the gaze did not desire to satisfy itself in the idol, the idol would have no dignity for it."

"Theological writing always transgresses itself, just as theological speech feeds on the silence in which, at last, it speaks correctly."

"The icon and the idol determine two manners of being for beings, not two classes of beings."

"Any access to something like "God," precisely because of the aim of Being as such, will have to determine him in advance as a being. The precomprehension of "God" as being is self-evident to the point…"

"The gaze strains itself to see the divine, to see it by taking it up into the field of the gazeable. The more powerfully the aim is deployed, the longer it sustains itself, the richer, more extensive …"