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Quotes from The Hidden Stream — Ronald Knox

1888–1957 England

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Comparative religion is an admirable recipe for making people comparatively religious.

The Hidden Stream (1952)

It doesn't do to say that heresy produces the development of doctrine, because that annoys the theologians. But it is true to say that as a matter of history the development of doctrine has been largely a reaction on the Church's part to the attacks of heresy.

The Hidden Stream (1952)

All these riches, then, of her theology the Church has acquired, one might almost say, like the British Empire, in a fit of absence of mind. She was so busy scrapping with the heretics that she wasn't conscious of saying anything she hadn't always said; and yet, when she had time to sit down and look about her, she found it took ten minutes to sing the Credo instead of three.

The Hidden Stream (1952)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ronald Knox (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.