Pagasa Website Quotes & Sayings

Ethics is a detergent word, used time and time again to clean consciences without scrubbing. — Corinne Maier

What we share with another ceases to be our own. — Edgar Quinet

There is a beauty in paradox when it comes to talking about things of ultimate concern. Paradox works against our tendency to stay superficial in our faith, or to rest on easy answers or categorical thinking. It breaks apart our categories by showing the inadequacy of them and by pointing to a reality larger than us, the reality of gloria, of light, of beyond-the-beyond. I like to call it paradoxology - the glory of paradox, paradox-doxology - which takes us somewhere we wouldn't be capable of going if we thought we had everything all wrapped up, if we thought we had attained full comprehension. The commitment to embracing the paradox and resisting the impulse to categorize people (ourselves included) is one of the ways we follow Jesus into that larger mysterious reality of light and love. — Nanette Sawyer

Hard to explain to a guard dog that you need it to protect you from yourself. — Dov Davidoff

Without question the most unpopular medium of musical sound in the world. — Thomas Beecham