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“The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.”
― Italo Calvino

“but sanctity is not developing oneself to the utmost, nor is it an achievement of one's own doing. It is at first a void which one discovers in oneself and accepts and which God then comes to fill in proportion to how much one makes oneself receptive to God's bounty.”
― Eloi Leclerc, Wisdom of the Poor One of Assisi, The

“Not mentioned by Knight and Lomas is that it was in “Dark Age” Europe that the university system, a gift of Western civilization to the world, was developed by the Catholic Church.”
― Thomas E. Woods Jr., How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization

“Western civilization’s admiration for the written word and for the classics comes to us from the Catholic Church that preserved both through the barbarian invasions.”
― Thomas E. Woods Jr., How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization