Michael Knowles

“Through failure to contemplate these Infinites, men have rashly rushed into the examination of nature, as though they bore some proportion to her.”
― Anonymous

“Value always involves some kind of reference to the activities of persons.' The process of human life on the earth is not ruled by disembodied values but by the personalities and doings and sayings of unique individual men and women.”
― Edwyn Bevan, Symbolism and Belief

“We should therefore expect that, if in a particular society the pursuit of external goods were to become dominant, the concept of the virtues might suffer first attrition and then perhaps something near total effacement, although simulacra might abound.”
― Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory

“Therefore it is also, that He neither endured the death of John, who was beheaded, nor was He sawn asunder, like Isaiah: even in death He preserved His body whole and undivided, so that there should be no excuse hereafter for those who would divide the Church.”
― Saint Athanasius, On the Incarnation