Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. 1 John 4:7
St. John Henry Newman is to be declared a Doctor of the Church on 1NOV2025, All Saints Day.

Quote Time Again

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Your boos mean nothing. I've seen what makes you cheer. - Rick Sanchez

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Every breath I take without your permission raises my self esteem. - Rick Sanchez

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What then is to be valued? The clapping of hands? No. Nor should we value the clapping of tongues, for that is the praise of the masses. - Marcus Aurelius

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HAMLET: Let me question more in particular, my good friends, what you have done to deserve such fortune, that she sends you to prison hither?

GUILDENSTERN: Prison, my lord?

HAMLET: Denmark’s a prison.

ROSENCRANTZ: Then the world is one.

HAMLET: A goodly one; in which there are many confines, wards, and dungeons, Denmark being one o’ the worst.

ROSENCRANTZ: We don’t think so, my lord.

HAMLET: Why, then ’tis none to you; for there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. To me it is a prison.

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Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards. - Pope Benedict XVI

We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires. - Pope Benedict XVI

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They can make you say anything, but they can't make you believe it. - George Orwell

A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims but accomplices. - George Orwell

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Just because you're offended doesn't mean you're right.

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A little learning is a dang'rous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring:
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.
- An Essay on Criticism, Alexander Pope (1709)

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People will forgive you for being wrong, but they will never forgive you for being right—especially if events prove you right while proving them wrong.

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