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  1. Joseph Pearce _ Tolkien: Man and Myth: A

    For Tolkien, Catholicism was not an opinion to which one subscribed but a reality to which one submitted. Quite simply, pseudo-psychology aside, Tolkien remained a Catholic for the simple if disarming reason that he believed Catholicism was true.
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  2. Rumer Godden _ In This House of Brede

    One of the good things about a Catholic church is that it isn't respectable," she had told Richard. "You can find anyone in it, from duchesses to whores, from tramps to kings.
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  3. Ann Patchett _ Run

    Catholicism is an obsessive-compulsive faith.
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  4. Fulton J. Sheen _ The Priest Is Not His Own

    In almost nine cases out of ten, those who have once had the Faith but now reject it, or claim that it does not make sense, are driven not by reasoning but by the way they are living
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  5. Fulton J. Sheen _ Seven Words of Jesus and Mary:

    Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and morality? They are trying to solace their own unhappy lives by pulling the happy down to their own abysmal depths.
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  6. Fulton J. Sheen _ Seven Words of Jesus and Mary:

    Far better it is for you to say: "I am a sinner," than to say: "I have no need of religion." The empty can be filled, but the self-intoxicated have no room for God.
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  7. Brian Doyle _ Credo: Essays on Grace, Altar

    But simple as the Sign of the Cross is, it carries a brave weight: it names the Trinity, celebrates the Creator, and brings home all the power of faith to the brush of fingers on skin and bone and belly. So do we, sometimes well and sometimes ill, labor to bring home our belief in God's love to the stuff of our daily lives, the skin and bone of this world - and the Sign of the Cross helps us to remember that we have a Companion on the road.
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  8. J.R.R. Tolkien _ The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

    The bigger things get the smaller and duller or flatter the globe gets. It is getting to be all one blasted little provincial suburb. When they have introduced American sanitation, morale-pep, feminism, and mass production throughout the Near East, Middle East, Far East, U.S.S.R., the Pampas, el Gran Chaco, the Danubian Basin, Equatorial Africa, Hirther Further and Inner Mumbo-land, Gondhwannaland, Lhasas, and the villages of darkest Berkshire, how happy we shall be . At any rate it out to cut down travel. There will be nowhere to go. So people will {I opine} go all the faster. {leter 53}
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  9. Joseph Pearce _ Tolkien: Man and Myth: A

    For Tolkien, Catholicism was not an opinion to which one subscribed but a reality to which one submitted. Quite simply, pseudo-psychology aside, Tolkien remained a Catholic for the simple if disarming reason that he believed Catholicism was true."
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  10. J.R.R. Tolkien _ The Two Towers

    Eomer said, 'How is a man to judge what to do in such times?'As he has ever judged,' said Aragorn. 'Good and evil have not changed since yesteryear, nor are they one thing among Elves and another among Men. It is a man's part to discern them, as much in the Golden Wood as in his own house.
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  11. J.R.R. Tolkien _ The Fellowship of the Ring

    The road must be trod, but it will be very hard. And neither strength nor wisdom will carry us far upon it. This quest may be attempted by the weak with as much hope as the strong. Yet it is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: Small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.
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  12. H.G. Wells _ Crux Ansata: An Indictment of

    Roman Catholicism is a broken and utterly desperate thing, capable only of malignant mischief in our awakening world.
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