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Ilia Delio

  • “A dynamic universe provokes the idea and the understanding of a dynamic God. This is not a stay-at-home God.”

    • Ilia Delio,
    • "Religious Life on the Edge of the Universe," Leadership Conference of Women Religious, in National Catholic Reporter ()

  • “We are about drawing in the poor, the lonely, the marginalized, all those seeking to be part of a whole. This is nothing more and nothing less than the most awesome vocation, and that is to give birth to God.”

    • Ilia Delio,
    • "Religious Life on the Edge of the Universe," Leadership Conference of Women Religious, in National Catholic Reporter ()

  • “This is a God who is deeply immersed in a love affair with the beloved, the creation which flows out of his divine heart ... God is eternally and dynamically in love.”

    • Ilia Delio,
    • "Religious Life on the Edge of the Universe," Leadership Conference of Women Religious, in National Catholic Reporter ()

  • “God is not finished creating … and therefore life is not behind us, it is ahead of us.”

    • Ilia Delio,
    • "Religious Life on the Edge of the Universe," Leadership Conference of Women Religious, in National Catholic Reporter ()

  • “A closed system will wear down and wear out.”

    • Ilia Delio,
    • "Religious Life on the Edge of the Universe," Leadership Conference of Women Religious, in National Catholic Reporter ()

Ilia Delio, U.S. religious, theologian, pharmacologist, environmentalist, writer, educator

Full name: Sister Ilia Delio, O.S.F. (Order of St. Francis).