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“Man is a rational animal. But that does not mean that he is a reasonable animal. It means only that he has reason, and therefore can misuse it. If he had not reason, he could not be unreasonable. But he has, and is.”
― Frank Sheed, Theology and Sanity

“Since it is through the possession of happiness that people become happy, and since happiness is in fact divinity, it is clear that it is through the possession of divinity that they become happy. But by the same logic as men become just through the possession of justice, or wise through the possession of wisdom, so those who possess divinity necessarily become divine. Each happy individual is therefore divine. While only God is so by nature, as many as you like may become so by participation.”
― Boethius

“All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit quiet in a room alone.”
― Blaise Pascal

“A good man is not a perfect man; a good man is an honest man, faithful and unhesitatingly responsive to the voice of God in his life.”
― John Fisher

“Whoever does not accept Holy Mary as the Mother of God has no relation with the Godhead. - St. Gregory of Nazianzus , On God and Christ: The Five Theological Orations and Two Letters to Cledonius (First Letter to Cledonius the Presbyter, n. 5)”
― St. Gregory of Nazianzus

“There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

“Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.”
― Theodore Dalrymple

“To regret religion is to regret Western civilization.”
― Theodore Dalrymple

“Where two pieties—feminism and multiculturalism—come into conflict, the only way of preserving both is an indecent silence.”
― Theodore Dalrymple, Our Culture, What's Left Of It

“Don't you get tired of seeing so many "non-conformists" with the same non-conformist look?”
― Thomas Sowell, Ever Wonder Why? And Other Controversial Essays

“For indeed, we sin greatly if we do not rejoice in the good works of others, and we gain no reward if we do not imitate the things that we love.”
― Gregory the Great, The Book of Pastoral Rule

“I have sinned against my brother the ass.”
― St. Francis Of Assisi

“What a man is in the sight of God, so much he is, and no more.”
― St. Francis of Assisi

“Worship gives us a share in heaven's mode of existence, in the world of God, and allows light to fall from that divine world into ours.”
― Pope Benedict XVI

“The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.”
― Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow

“Those who cannot conceive Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend. (The Four Loves)”
― C. S. Lewis

“A fine and beautiful life lies before thee, because thou hast a lively mind and a good wit. Thine arms are very strong and sturdy. Swimming hath helped to make them so, but only because thou hast had the will to do it. Fret not, my son. None of us is perfect. It is better to have crooked legs than a crooked spirit. We can only do the best we can with what we have. That, after all, is the measure of success: what we do with what we have.”
― Marguerite DeAngeli, The Door in the Wall