Comfort Quote by James Carroll

Memory is a political act. Forgetfulness is the handmaiden of tyranny.

— James Carroll

There are so many flaws, .. I don't think they can be fixed.

— James Carroll

We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things…but, there are times…

— James Carroll

Before entering the seminary, I had not encountered the life-changing potential of reading as a source of meaning, as a way of ordering one's…

— James Carroll

“...she had discovered within herself the unlikely gift for functioning with equilibrium and efficiency inside a full-blown, unending nightmare. [A Red Cross worker during…

— James Carroll

Telling our stories is what saves us. The story is enough... The very act of storytelling, of arranging memory and invention according to the…

— James Carroll

There are times when we stop, we sit still. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.

— James Carroll

It takes a disciplined imagination to acknowledge that the less personal savageries of bombs, missiles, artillery and heavy weapons are, to those blown to…

— James Carroll

American fighters of the Pacific War were not heroes. The desperation of island combat included exchanged barbarities of which no one would willingly speak…

— James Carroll

“The very act of story-telling, of arranging memory and invention according to the structure of the narrative, is by definition holy. We tell stories…

— James Carroll

“Back home, this Catholic kid was accustomed to a Protestant culture's condescension, but here he could see for himself the world-historic glories of Catholicism...…

— James Carroll

“Apart from the museums that anchor the great cities of Europe and America, the Roman Catholic Church is what remains of "Christendom," the generating…

— James Carroll