Quotes about Author

for the most part we can say that the disputes are about him yet don't involve him. He has shown a singular capacity to plant seeds that others nurture into disputes. (That is one complaint about him: his imprecisions invite others to reach conflicting interpretations of papal statements.)

Francis because it has not had the key to him: he is Juan Perón in ecclesiastical translation.

Bonhoeffer's emphasis on the deep this-worldliness of Christianity does not lead to de-escahtologizing the gospel.

The grace of God is never the cause for glorying in one's own power ... Perseverance is always opposed to false self-confidence.

Time and place are our own limitations, Andy; we mustn't impose them upon God.

Queequeg was George Washington cannibalistically developed. Whilst

For what are the comprehensible terrors of man compared with the interlinked terrors and wonders of God!

Top-heavy was the ship as a dinnerless student with all Aristotle

Delight,--top-gallant delight is to him, who acknowledges no law or lord, but the Lord his God, and is only a patriot to heaven

Heaven have mercy on us all — Presbyterians and Pagans alike — for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.

But in gazing at such scenes, it is all in all what mood you are in; if in the Dantean, the devils will occur to you; if in that of Isaiah, the archangels.

Let him be, I say: and Heaven have mercy on us all - Presbyterians and Pagans alike - for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.