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Henri de Lubac
“Of course there was no need for the Church to repudiate the harmony between the earth and the cosmos. Just as her doctors have preserved, often felicitously, many habits of thought and turns of phrase which are tainted in origin, so does the Church gather to her vast treasury riches rescued from all sides. She took the sumptuous setting of her worship from dying paganism, making a halo for the Sun of Justice out of the glory of the Sol Invictus, adorning her cathedrals with the signs of the zodiac, harmonizing her ceremonies with the rhythm of the seasons. But it is neither the natural cycle nor some extra-cosmic deliverance that is portrayed by her liturgical year: it is the vast history of our redemption.”
Henri de Lubac, Catholicism: Christ and the Common Destiny of Man

Saul Bellow
“You could seldom get people to long for what was possible - that was the cruelty of it.”
Saul Bellow, Mr. Sammler's Planet

Terry Eagleton
“In the days before culture shifted centre-stage, there was an obvious dwelling place for the spirit, known as religion. Religion did all that culture was later to do, but far more effectively. It could enlist countless millions of men and women in the business of ultimate values, not just the few well-educated enough to read Horace or listen to Mahler. To assist it in this task, it had the threat of hell fire at its disposal - a penalty which proved rather more persuasive than the murmurs of cultivated distaste around those who hadn't read Horace. Religion has been for most of human history one of the most precious components of popular life, even though almost all theorists of popular culture embarrassingly ignore it.”
Terry Eagleton, After Theory

Nick Cave
“Sean: When you started to delve into the New Testament, how influential was that on the way you wrote songs? I'm thinking particularly of The Boatman's Call (in 1997), in which there was a definite change of tone and, indeed, a different kind of song.

Nick: I think so, yes. When I reacquainted myself with the Gospels, in my thirties, I found the language so beautiful, it touched a need in me. It seeped into everything, especially my songs. There is nothing quite like the Gospels in literature - and the great human drama at its centre, the story of Jesus.”
Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage

Nick Cave
“Sean: But, hang on, are you saying atheism - or secularism - is an affliction? And that you equate it with cynicism? I mean, come on, non-believers can have a sense of wonder at the world - with nature, the universe, with the wonders of science, philosophy and even the everyday.

Nick: No, I am not saying secularism is an affliction in itself. I just don't think it has done a very good job of addressing the questions that religion is well practised at answering. Religion, at its best, can serve as a kind of shepherding force that holds communities together - it is there, within a community, that people feel more attached to each other and the world. It's where they find a deeper meaning.”
Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage

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