Vikingsnark

“It's true, I suffer a great deal--but do I suffer well? That is the question.”
― Therese de Lisieux, St. Therese of Lisieux: Her Last Conversations

“For one's native place is the shell of one's soul, and one's church is the kernel of that nut.”
― Hilaire Belloc, The Path to Rome

“is more profitable to leave everyone to his way of thinking than to give way to contentious discourses.”
― St. Therese of Lisieux, The Story of a Soul

“A Catholic culture does not mean or imply universality. A nation or a whole civilization is of the Catholic culture not when it is entirely composed of strong believers minutely practicing their religion, nor even whit it boasts a majority of such, but when it presents a determining number of units-family institutions, individuals, inspired by and tenacious of the Catholic spirit.”
― Hilaire Belloc, The Crisis of Civilization