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These, following science, want to make a just order for themselves by reason alone, but without Christ now, not as before, and they have already proclaimed that there is no crime, there is no sin. And in their own terms they are correct: for if you have no God, what crime is there to speak of?

Which the two is more capable of upholding and serving a great idea-the isolated rich man or one who is liberated from the tyranny of things and habits

The proletarian is the man who is fettered to the process of work.

A state of extreme tension is more easily induced than a state of relaxation and ease although the latter is effortless.

Acedia is the ‘despair from weakness’ which Kierkegaard analysed as the ‘despairing refusal to be oneself’.

It is no use trying to ‘see through’ first principles. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To ‘see through’ all things is the same as not to see.

It is not that they are bad men. They are not men at all.

In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise.

Propaganda is their abomination: not because their own philosophy gives a ground for condemning it (or anything else), but because they are better than their principles.

Aristotle says that the aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought.

The end and the norm of discipline is happiness.

The highest moral good is characterized by effortlessness- because it springs from love.

“He has one fault, at first a very small thing, but a dangerous fault... he does not learn to give when it costs something.”

“The warmth of another heart beating close would be too great a consolation for me... I would love the creature more than the Creator-and in the end I would cease to love the creature too. I would not love anything.”

“If you were to ... advocate a marriage of Judeo-Christianity and New Age spirituality, you would be welcomed as the Prodigal Son who had seen the light”

“How do we stop a chimera?”
“...prayer and fasting. We must awake the entire body of believers. They have been sleeping far too late into the day!”

“The struggle between good and evil can never be resolved by a false peace, by declaring that there is no good or evil, that there is no need to struggle.”

“Even believers can reduce the Faith to a philosophical system. They can retain the exterior forma of religion and lose its heart.”

“No man knows his own soul so well that he is invincible to the tactics of the enemy. No man”

“I have met mass murderers... let me tell you about him. He was a disciplined man... He had character... Most human qualities can be misused.”

“He [man] suffers from the major disease of our century, a subconscious despair.”

“The assault is underway on every level of society. I think the noisiest of the attacks are the least dangerous.”

“Exterior enemies are only part of the problem. There’s trouble inside the House of God.”

“...the man radiated virtue, character, and nobility. But all of these qualities were without charity, and the cumulative effect of so much good turned to some undefined ill was to invoke fear...”

“Was there a missing component in all human beings? The rural masses seeking the metropolis; the urban young fleeing to the woods. Women pretending to be men; men becoming more like women; everyone aping divinity in his desperation to escape creaturehood.”