January 2011
“If he is not the word of God, then God never spoke.”
– The Road [film]
“Nothing conquers except truth; the victory of truth is charity.” — St....”
– Ignatius Insight
“Central to this part of the Holy Father’s letter on hope is when he points...”
– Καθολικός διάκονος: Purgatorio, the fire within
“The one who first knew that he
would have to die and then
constructed tombs,...”
– Jérôme Lejeune (Life is a Blessing, Clara Lejeune-Gaymard)
“For the greatest lesson taught by biology is precisely this debut of the human...”
– Jérôme LeJeune (Life Is a Blessing, Clara Lejeune-Gaymard)
“Happy people have a story, too, but they don’t tell it—as though...”
– Clara Lejeune-Gaymard, Life Is a Blessing
“Il lavoro vero della vita è il lavoro che non è pagato, cioè il cambiamento di...”
– Luigi Giussani, Il miracolo dell’ospitalità
“The fruit is for man but the flower is for God and the good scent of all that is...”
– Paul Claudel, The Tidings Brought to Mary
“Would it not be bound to startle [Ratzinger] if “both cloths” from...”
– Paul Badde, The Face of God (On the Holy Face of Manoppello)
“For here was the key to why only Christians can make pictures of God—and...”
– Paul Badde, The Face of God (On the Holy Face of Manoppello)
“The President in particular is very much a figurehead—he wields no real...”
– Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
“I hear things existing around me.”
– Violaine, Paul Claudel, The Tidings brought to Mary
“What’s the use of the road, if there’s no church at the end?”
– Paul Claudel, The Tidings brought to Mary
“I say more: the just man justices;
Keeps gráce: thát keeps all his goings...”
– Gerard Manley Hopkins, “As Kingfishers Catch Fire” (via Καθολικός διάκονος: “What I do is me; for that I came”) 