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“False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.”
― Joseph de Maistre, St Petersburg Dialogues: Or Conversations on the Temporal Government of Providence

“It is not just that secularists happen to reject and oppose religion; it's that there is nothing more to their creed than rejecting and opposing religion. . . . The fact is that secularists are "for" reason and science only to the extent that they don't lead to religious conclusions; they celebrate free choice only insofar as one chooses against traditional or religiously oriented morality; and they are for democracy and toleration only to the extent that these might lead to a less religiously oriented social and political order.”
― Edward Feser, The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism

“Let temporal things be in the use, eternal things in the desire.”
― Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ

“I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love...I sought what I might love, in love with loving.”
― Augustine of Hippo