Alex

“It doesn't matter what people call you unless they call you pigeon pie and eat you up.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

“Bossuet has a sentence which is beyond the comprehension of an apostle who does not realize what must be the soul of his apostolate. It runs: “When God desires a work to be wholly from His hand, he reduces all to impotence and nothingness, and then He acts.” Nothing wounds God so much as pride.”
― Jean-Baptiste Chautard, Soul of the Apostolate

“Being uneducated is no guarantee against being obnoxious.”
― Walker Percy, Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book

“People with a strong sense of being embodied creatures, rather than being bundles of appetite provided with the machinery of a body to work upon, will prove difficult to persuade in the coming century of the biotechnocrats.”
― Anthony M. Esolen, Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child