#catholicism

For more than a year, he'd felt destined to marry Isabel Arundell; now, suddenly, he wasn't so sure. He loved her, that was certain, but he also resented her. He loved her strength and practicality but resented her overbearing personality and tendency to do things on his behalf without consulting him first; loved that she tolerated his interest in all things exotic and erotic but hated her blinkered Catholicism. Charles Darwin had killed God but she and her family, like so many others, still clung to the delusion. ↗

— Mark Hodder

#catholicism #charles-darwin #god #love #religion

The Best ideal is the true and other truth is none. All glory be ascribed to the holy Three in One. ↗

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

#religion #trinity #religion

The father of Egyptology was Father Athanasius Kircher. ↗

— Thomas E. Woods Jr.

#egyptology #science #western-civilization #science

[I]t seemed to me now that a Catholic church was the right companion for all these horrors. Didn't Catholicism deal with blood and resurrected flesh on a daily basis? Wasn't it expert in superstition? I somehow doubted that the hospitable plain Protestant chapels that dotted the university could be much help; they didn't look qualified to wrestle with the undead. I felt sure those big square Puritan churches on the town green would be helpless in the face of a European vampire. A little witch burning was more in their line--something limited to the neighbors. ↗

— Elizabeth Kostova

#church #protestantism #vampires #catholicism

The university system, a gift of Western civilization to the world, was developed by the Catholic Church. ↗

— Thomas E. Woods Jr.

#civilization #university #catholicism

He who does little, but in a state to which God calls him, does more than he who labors much, but in a state which he has thoughtlessly chosen: a cripple limping in the right way is better than a racer out of it. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#god-s-will #vocation #catholicism

... You can't be with God and be neutral. / True contemplation is resistance. And poetry, / gazing at clouds is resistance I found out in jail. ↗

— Ernesto Cardenal

#marxism #poetry #catholicism

(Catholic) monks taught metallurgy, introduced new crops, copied ancient texts, preserved literacy, pioneered in technology, invented champagne, improved the European landscape, provided for wanderers of every stripe, and looked after the lost and shipwrecked. ↗

— Thomas E. Woods Jr.

#civilization #catholicism

Smugness is the Great Catholic Sin. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#pride #sin #smugness #catholicism

Her (Mary's) Son first had to be the Child of the Father in order then to become man and be capable of taking up on his shoulders the burden of a guilty world. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#catholicism #christ #christianity #eternal-child #god