Fatherless Quotes

“more active than ever before in humankind, precisely because the unholy spirit is more active than ever before in humankind.” “Such is the mercy of God,” John said quietly.”
― Brian J. Gail, Fatherless

“. “Then Your Holiness, how is it that you say repeatedly that the Church is on the verge of a new springtime?” “The two are not mutually exclusive. They are mutually dependent,” he replied enigmatically.”
― Brian J. Gail, Fatherless

“Your Holiness, what do you see as the great existential challenges of our age?” The pope looked at him with what John thought was some degree of surprise, and said soberly, “The depletion and exploitation of God’s creation, the inequitable distribution of goods, the clash of cultures, the desire of man to recreate himself in his own image, and an all-pervasive global culture of death that extends from the womb and now hangs over all peoples as a sword of Damocles.”
― Brian J. Gail, Fatherless

“Western civilization had allowed its moral energy to be systematically drained by sexual license; and it now lacked the intellectual, emotional, and yes, spiritual toughness to face the great crises confronting it.”
― Brian J. Gail, Fatherless

“So he can create disorder within divinely created order,” The”
― Brian J. Gail, Fatherless

“As John Paul II once famously said, ‘Descartes got it precisely backwards. It’s not ‘I think therefore I am; It’s rather I am, therefore I think.’’ What I think he’s saying here is that philosophical error draws man away from a fundamental harmony with Original Design, if you will, and the consequences are usually catastrophic. Witness the ‘bloody century.”
― Brian J. Gail, Fatherless

“As John Paul II once famously said, ‘Descartes got it precisely backwards. It’s not ‘I think therefore I am; It’s rather I am, therefore I think.’’ What I think he’s saying here is that”
― Brian J. Gail, Fatherless

“Medical science didn’t wait for the child to develop into a discardable fetus. It declared it a nonperson by virtue of its pending implantation.”
― Brian J. Gail, Fatherless

“the child but on what is happening to its mother. This, of course, is the beginning of the depersonalization of the child.”
― Brian J. Gail, Fatherless

“They sought to establish a scientific basis for determining the beginning of life. In doing so they based their argument not on what is happening to”
― Brian J. Gail, Fatherless

“We are called to be the love of God in the modern world. These people are our brothers and sisters in Christ. They must feel God’s love, and it is our responsibility to love them as God has loved us.”
― Brian J. Gail, Fatherless

“Thomas Aquinas once famously said there are only two kinds of people in the world, Bill, sinners who think they’re saints; and saints who think they’re sinners.” “That’s good, Father. Tell Maggie that.”
― Brian J. Gail, Fatherless

“mother’s best friends. And she never failed to deliver a brief glimpse of eternity in every meeting, every conversation.”
― Brian J. Gail, Fatherless