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Walker Percy
“What nuns don’t realize is that they look better in nun clothes than in J. C. Penney pantsuits.”
Walker Percy, Lancelot

D. Stephen Long
“Only because our being and truth already belong to God can we avoid the nominalist temptation, where God arbitrarily and unexpectedly appears as a sheer act of will reversing creaturely being and commandeering our language miraculously from the outside such that nothing identifiably human remains of it.”
D. Stephen Long, Saving Karl Barth: Hans Urs von Balthasar's Preoccupation

Harold Bloom
“Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless, according to the sublime Oscar Wilde, who was right about everything. He also told us that all bad poetry is sincere. Had I the power to do so, I would command that these words be engraved above every gate at every university, so that each student might ponder the splendor of the insight.”
Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages

Joseph de Maistre
“Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.”
Joseph de Maistre, St Petersburg Dialogues: Or Conversations on the Temporal Government of Providence

D. Stephen Long
“You were not able to find yourself in my persistent traveling on the theological one-way street. Who knows whether you might not have already been close to those monks of the nitrischen desert? I in turn am able neither to join nor be inclined to your high altitude flight in a beyond of philosophy and theology. I understand you as a Catholic Tillich (and as such much more interesting and full). It goes without saying that I will henceforth accompany you and your work—in a bewildering participation or rather in a participating bewilderment—and look forward to every contact with you.”
D. Stephen Long, Saving Karl Barth: Hans Urs von Balthasar's Preoccupation

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