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“The rulers of the world were Monks, when they could not be Martyrs.”
― John Henry Newman

tags: martyrs, monks

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“As a society of unbelief, Western culture is devoid of a sense of journey, of adventure, because it lacks belief in much more than the cultivation of an ever-shrinking horizon of self-preservation and and self-expression.”
― Stanley Hauerwas, Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony

tags: adventure, meaning-of-life, purpose, unbelief, western-culture

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“He can no longer have God for a Father, who has not the Church for a Mother.”
― John Henry Newman, An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine

tags: church-as-mother, god-the-father

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“Multiculturalism is in its essence anti-European civilization. It is basically an anti-Western ideology.”
― Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

tags: clash-of-civilizations, european-civilization, ideology, multiculturalism, western-culture

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“the best sources in the Western tradition have argued that morality is much more than, indeed qualitatively different from, the sum of the values that an essentially autonomous self chooses for itself. Classical, Jewish, and Christian sources, such as Plato, Aristotle, and Cicero, or Augustine, John Chrysostom, Maimonides, Thomas Aquinas, and John Calvin, insist that morality is neither plural nor subjective.”
― Vigen Guroian, Tending the Heart of Virtue: How Classic Stories Awaken a Childs Moral Imagination

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