Annoying Quote by Ronald Knox

A baby is a loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

— Ronald Knox

The prevailing attitude of the speakers was one of heavy disagreement with a number of things which the reader had not said.

— Ronald Knox

When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected 'I believe' to 'one does feel'.

— Ronald Knox

Only those of us, I think, who were born under Queen Victoria know what it feels like to assume, without questioning, that England is…

— Ronald Knox

The great argument used now against any theological proposition is not, that it is untrue, or unthinkable, or unedifying, or unscriptural, or unorthodox, but…

— Ronald Knox

If you have a sloppy religion you get a sloppy atheism.

— Ronald Knox

Knox was engaged in a theological discussion with scientist John Scott Haldane. 'In a universe containing millions of planets,' reasoned Haldane, 'is it not…

— Ronald Knox

It is so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it.

— Ronald Knox

“Hope is something that is demanded of us; it is not, then, a mere reasoned calculation of our chances. Nor is it merely the…

— Ronald Knox

The difference between the Old and the New Testament is the difference between a man who said "There is nothing new under the sun"…

— Ronald Knox

He who travels in the Barque of Peter had better not look too closely into the engine room.

— Ronald Knox

“It is possible to argue that the true business of faith is not to produce emotional conviction in us, but to teach us to…

— Ronald Knox