Ecclesiae Quotes & Sayings

I should retire for the night," she said. "I know I make it look so effortless, but world domination is exhausting. — Chris Colfer

I kind of understood at a young age that I didn't play well with most other kids in the sandbox. — Chris Bohjalian

There is no chain of philosophical reasoning or method of philosophical enquiry through which we can arrive at the truths of faith as conclusions. But once by faith we have acknowledged those truths we are able to understand why there is good reason to acknowledge them. This, as he was to argue a little later, is because of the effects of sin on the human mind. It is "because human minds are obscured by familiarity with darkness, which covers them in a night of sins and bad habits, and are unable to perceive with the clarity and purity proper to reason" that authority has been provided to bring "the faltering eye into the light of truth" (De moribus ecclesiae catholicae 31.2.31). — Alasdair MacIntyre

Life isn't always about things you can see or hear or touch. Sometimes it's more than that. — Rachel Morgan

Given that Russia cannot compete with Europe on the basis of economic efficiency and political appeal, it has to do so with the form of power in which it has some advantage: brute force. — Anonymous

I grew up with lots of animals and I related more to them than I did to people. I feel a lot of empathy for them. — Neko Case

Later Protestant writers would refer to this as the articulus stantis et cadentis ecclesiae - the "article by which the church stands or falls. — Alister E. McGrath