Stephen

“The idea of continually returning to ashes is the nostalgia of fundamentalists, but this must not be the true sense of the word: Tradition, instead, is a root that is essential for the tree always to bear fruit”
― Pope Francis

“It is undoubtedly true, though it may seem paradoxical; but in general, those who are habitually employed in finding and displaying faults, are unqualified for the work of reformation: because their minds are not only unfurnished with patterns of the fair and good, but by habit their come to take no delight in the contemplation of those things.”
― Edmund Burke, Reflections On The Revolution In France [Christmas Summary Classics]

“So we took our books and went back over a hundred years of Italian history in search of a "just war." It's not our fault if we didn't find one.”
― Don Lorenzo Milani

“Characteristically, I asked no one’s advice. I just prayed and fought with myself—and finally decided, since it was so hard, I would do it. God must have a special Providence for hard-headed people like me.”
― Walter Ciszek