Saturday, November 16, 2013

"he moves on a line, on which did he progress for centuries, he would but be carried further from them, instead of catching them up."

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     "Now this, I fear, will seem a hard doctrine to some of us.  There are those, whom it is impossible not to respect and love, of am...
Friday, November 8, 2013

Running with the buffaloes

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     “There was an anchorite in the desert grazing with the buffaloes and he prayed to God, saying:  ‘Lord, let me know if I am falling beh...
Saturday, November 2, 2013

Bossuet on the priesthood of all believers

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"When one speaks in the presence of the faithful either of the duties of the priesthood or of the powers of ecclesiastics, they think t...
Thursday, October 24, 2013

"Then there are the fanatical atheists whose intolerance is the same as that of the religious fanatics, and it springs from the same source. . . . They are creatures who can't hear the music of the spheres."

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     Albert Einstein to an unidentified person, 7 August 1941, as quoted in The ultimate quotable Einstein, ed. Alice Calaprice (Princeton: ...
Sunday, October 20, 2013

"Physical Science is the richer, Theology the more exact; . . ."

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     John Henry Newman,  The idea of a university defined and illustrated,  Discourse VII.6, "Christianity and physical science:  a lec...

"Resist the devil", and he will make his presence known

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"A brother told some elder:  'I do not see any battle in my heart.'  'You are a building open on all four sides', the e...

Non-overlapping magisteria

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"we may wait in peace and tranquillity till there is some real collision between Scripture authoritatively interpreted, and results of ...