There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person. (G.K. Chesterton)
Quotes
Behold, the pagans have trodden your cross underfoot! Where is your glory? As I see all this, I would, in the ardent love I have for you, prefer to be torn limb from limb and to die as a witness to your love. (Saint Paul Le-Bao-Tinh, martyr of Vietnam)
Your heart must rejoice beyond words, soaring into an immensity of gladness, unrestrained by syllabic bonds. Sing to him with jubilation. (Saint Augustine)
to the only God, our Savior through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and for ever. Amen. (Jude 1:25)
When one remembers how the Catholic Church has been governed, and by whom, one realizes that it must have been divinely inspired to have survived at all. (Hilaire Belloc)
The aim of natural science is not simply to accept the statements of others, but to investigate the causes that are at work in nature. (Saint Albert the Great, +1280)
The faith by which we live shall never vary in any age . . . for one is the faith which sanctifies the Just of all ages…The faith of those who live their faith is a serene faith. What you long for will be given you; what you love will be yours for ever. (Pope[…]
Whenever we come to church, we must prepare our hearts to be as beautiful as we expect this church to be. Do you wish to find this basilica immaculately clean? Then do not soil your soul with the filth of sins. Do you wish this basilica to be full of light? God too wishes that[…]
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about (G.K. Chesterton)
Compassion, my dear Brother, is preferable to cleanliness. Reflect that with a little soap I can easily clean my bed covers, but even with a torrent of tears I would never wash from my soul the stain that my harshness toward the unfortunate would create. (Saint Martin de Porres, +1649)