85 quotes
Cast away Authority, and authority shall forsake you.
By What Authority? (1905)
Honors and privileges are worth nothing if every one has them. If we all wore crowns, the kings would go bareheaded.
The Dawn of All (1911)
These things were as the bones of the Universe—facts beyond doubting—if they were not true, nothing anywhere was anything but a dream.
Lord of the World (1907)
Men do recognise at last that a supernatural Religion involves an absolute authority, and that Private Judgment in matters of faith is nothing else than the beginning of disintegration.
Lord of the World (1907)
Friendliness took the place of charity, contentment the place of hope, and knowledge the place of faith.
Lord of the World (1907)
Divine Truth always must be extreme—it must, so to speak, always overlap at both ends, just because it is Divine, and therefore much too big for this world.
Christ in the Church (1911)
Each soul is as great as the world, and in each soul there is room for all the tragedies of the world to be re-enacted, as every puddle is great enough to hold the sun.
Christ in the Church (1911)
You can love a person deeply and sincerely whom you do not like. You can like a person passionately whom you do not love.
Spiritual Letters (1915)
Whenever your soul begins to be disturbed and anxious, put yourself in His Hands, and refuse to decide for yourself. It is so easy, so easy.
By What Authority? (1905)
Perhaps that is the reason that I think I see it all so plainly; just because I want to see it plainly.
By What Authority? (1905)
You see, when competition ceases, effort ceases. Human nature is human nature, after all. The Socialists forgot that.
The Dawn of All (1911)
To-day as in Bethlehem, the bourgeois sits at home and discusses the Census, while Shepherds and Kings adore in the Stable.
Christ in the Church (1911)
Their nakedness was their armour, their slow tongues their persuasiveness, their weakness demanded God’s strength, and found it.
Lord of the World (1907)
Religion...must at least touch the will; for however small our will may be, it is always large enough to be united to the Will of God.
Christ in the Church (1911)
Men must have facts first and explanations afterwards.
The Mustard Tree (1912)
Speak from your heart...Be bold, yet not overbold.
By What Authority? (1905)
A great deal depends on the temper of the court. Facts depend for their interpretation upon the point of view.
The Dawn of All (1911)
Those who most confidently appeal to Reason are usually the very persons most controlled by Imagination.
The Mustard Tree (1912)
So long as there is Sin in the world, so long must there be Penance.
The Dawn of All (1911)
If God be Truth, and God be Love, is it not absolutely inevitable that the Love of God should bring the Truth of God down to the level of the very simplest?
Christ in the Church (1911)