“Mevr. Cadzand feared for her son who, with his responsive nature, as sensitive as a hothouse plant, was more exposed. Fortunately religion… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
“The bigger things get the smaller and duller or flatter the globe gets. It is getting to be all one blasted little… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Babies need not to be taught a trade, but to be introduced to a world. To put the matter shortly, woman is… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The sun which warms the plant can under other conditions also wither it. The rain which nourishes the flower can under other… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Suppose there arise a dispute relative to some important question among us, should we not have recourse to the most ancient Churches… — Irenaeus of Lyons Copy Share Image
I'm an ex-Catholic priest. I have such a complex relationship to Catholicism. On the one hand, if I called myself a Catholic… — Benjamin Alire Saenz Copy Share Image
“From a biblical perspective, salvation is ultimately about union with God. The God of Israel is not a distant deity or an… — Brant Pitre Copy Share Image
“There has been no single influence which has done more to prevent man from finding God and rebuilding his character, has done… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“Since the basic cause of man’s anxiety is the possibility of being either a saint or a sinner, it follows that there… — Fulton J. Sheen, Ph.D.,D.D Copy Share Image
I was raised a Catholic as a boy and went to a Catholic boys' high school, a private school, and kind of… — James Balog Copy Share Image
We are building a dictatorship of relativism that does not recognize anything as definitive and whose ultimate goal consists solely of one's… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“Protestantism and Catholicism must not be compared to Sunnism and Shi'ism in the Islamic context as has been done by certain scholars.… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
“I asked the earth and it answered, “I am not He”; and all things that are in the earth made the same… — Robert Cardinal Sarah Copy Share Image
“Why did the Holy Ghost descend on the Jewish Pentecost? Because on their Pentecost the Jews celebrated the anniversary of the giving… — Leonard Goffiné Copy Share Image
“Evil demons dwelling in underworlds, Gods sitting on-high, angels battling and protecting. We have become so wrapped up in these stories, and… — L.M. Browning Copy Share Image
The great masses of people do not consist of philosophers; precisely for the masses, faith is often the sole foundation of a… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“The first days of January 1942 brought enormous amounts of snow. The reader already knows what snow meant for the clergy. But… — Jean Bernard Copy Share Image
“He loved the darkness and the mystery of the Catholic service--the tall priest strutting like a carrion crow and pronouncing magic in… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
In the ranks of the movement [National Socialist movement], the most devout Protestant could sit beside the most devout Catholic, without coming… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“Considering he was neither priest nor scholar, the young man gave sensible, thoughtful replies -- the more so, perhaps, for being untrained,… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
“Pere Silas in Villette marshals his forces with considerable skill and subtlety. Although he claims to be momentarily taken aback by the… — Marianne Thormahlen Copy Share Image
One of the things I like about my job is that it draws on the entire person: not just your knowledge of… — Mary Norris Copy Share Image
“We turn toward the Man Crucified of Jerusalem, toward the Man Crucified of Rome, toward His truth abandoned and betrayed; we say… — Louis Veuillot Copy Share Image
The folkish-minded man, in particular, has the sacred duty, each in his own denomination, of making people stop just talking superficially of… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
During a frustrating argument with a Roman Catholic cardinal, Napoleon Bonaparte supposedly burst out: Your eminence, are you not aware that I… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
I wouldn't have known anything about Catholicism if I hadn't been dating Gert. In those days, Catholics were much less ecumenical than… — Wesley Clark Copy Share Image
Whoever prays is certainly saved. He who does not is certainly damned. All the blessed have been saved by prayer. All the… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
“The news today about "Atomic bombs" is so horrifying one is stunned. The utter folly of these lunatic physicists to consent to… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Do I address issues of the spirit, of the soul, in my work? Yes, definitely. As for being a Catholic poet, I… — Lawrence Joseph Copy Share Image
The processes of secularization that followed in the wake of the Reformation continue to work themselves out in complicated ways, not only… — Brad Stephan Gregory Copy Share Image
Love is the most necessary of all virtues. Love in the person who preaches the word of God is like fire in… — Anthony Mary Claret Copy Share Image
“Well the first War of the Machines seems to be drawing to its final inconclusive chapter - leaving, alas, everyone the poorer,… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Pascal makes no attempt in this most famous argument to show that his Roman Catholicism is true or probably true. The reasons… — Antony Flew Copy Share Image
“In the upper echelons of the Church, the authoritarian and anti-liberal elements within fascism resonated with those – and they included Pius… — Christopher Duggan Copy Share Image
For those interested in Reformed thought more broadly, I'd recommend Peter Leithart's recent book on Reformed Catholicism entitled, The End of Protestantism:… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
“There is another reason also why the soul has traveled safely in this obscurity; it has suffered: for the way of suffering… — Saint John of the Cross Copy Share Image
It doesn't dawn on this depraved bourgeois world that this is positively a sin against all reason; that it is criminal lunacy… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“Theology is just not important in Judaism, or in any other religion, really. There's no orthodoxy, as you have it in the… — Hyam Maccoby Copy Share Image
“The rising influence of lay piety is particularly marked upon the Mariological controversies of the late medieval period. Two rival positions developed:… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
“All love on this earth involves choice. When, for example, a young man expresses his love to a young woman and asks… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image