The Secret Chapel Quotes

“In the wake of the country’s newfound wealth, a religion of consumerism had spurred a mindless pursuit for greater corporate profits. This greed-fueled race eventually led to companies sending millions of manufacturing jobs overseas, resulting in the decline of the cherished middle class who made their living making things. For the first time, America’s children were looking at a lower standard of living than their parents. Corporate profit and material possessions were the new idolatry, shoving God’s message of ‘love thy neighbor’ into a dusty corner.”
― John Lyman, The Secret Chapel

“As long as we’re alive, there’s always hope.”
― John Lyman, The Secret Chapel

“Ad maiorem Dei gloriam—for the greater glory of God.” It was the Jesuit motto.”
― John Lyman, The Secret Chapel

“theology, this was the kind of discussion Leo relished. “Are you saying that nationalism, along with a predominant national religion, gives rise to radicalism?”
― John Lyman, The Secret Chapel

“It’s funny how we all gravitated to professions where we felt we could help people.”
― John Lyman, The Secret Chapel

“Morelli had spent most of his career exploring archaeological sites around the world, especially the ancient tunnels and Christian ruins under the Vatican.”
― John Lyman, The Secret Chapel

“Father Morelli was also a well-known and respected church archaeologist who lived and worked in Vatican City. He was one of those veridical scholars who were always researching something, haunting the Vatican archives in an effort to uncover some small and seemingly insignificant piece of information that would lead him to his next archaeological discovery.”
― John Lyman, The Secret Chapel

“The distancing from past values, coupled with dwindling opportunity for working men and women spurred by globalization, unaffordable college tuition, and the widening gap between the very rich and everyone else, was creating a violent underclass that was spreading like a virus across a land previously occupied by a mostly peaceful and moral populace.”
― John Lyman, The Secret Chapel

“The societal change had left a barren expanse of sameness and apathy across the nation.”
― John Lyman, The Secret Chapel