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Two world wars in twenty-one years, and the universal dread of nuclear incineration. This time God has given us John Paul II.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
The vision of social amelioration without spiritual regeneration has constituted a temptation to which many important men in history have succumbed completely. But to Him, this would not be adequate service of the Father; there are deeper needs in man than crushed wheat; and there are greater joys than the full stomach.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Prayer and dependence on God has been our history. How unfortunate it is now that an unaccountable and unelected and misguided judge from Wisconsin, Judge Barbara Crabb, has declared National Days of Prayer - established by the Congress - to be unconstitutional.
- James Dobson
Every President I think I've ever known, except Truman, has thought they didn't quite get done what they wanted done. And toward the end of their Administrations, they were disappointed and wished they had done some things differently.
- Billy Graham
Since the time of the witch burnings, the grandmothers and the healers and the midwives have been systematically targeted. And burned at the stake for hundreds of years, decimating whole communities.
- Alice Walker
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
- Oscar Wilde
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
- Virginia Woolf
The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory.
- Jordan Peterson
Most Americans haven't had my happy experience of living for thirteen years in a seventeenth-century house, since most of America lacks seventeenth-century houses.
- John Updike
O earth, what changes hast thou seen!
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
To engage with the Church's past is to see something of the Church's future.
- Rowan Williams
salvation does not bypass the history and memory of guilt, but rather builds upon and from it.
- Rowan Williams