Timothy M. Dolan famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The only just government is the government that serves its citizens, not itself.
-- Timothy M. Dolan

#Government #Citizens #Politics
We're into an age of excessive individuals, all right. We're into the age were independence, autonomy, convenience, sometimes selfishness. The new trinity of me, myself and I, seems to dominate. We know that's contrary to the very nature of the human person. The very nature of the human person needs God and needs other people.
-- Timothy M. Dolan

#People #Independence #Age
Neither I nor anyone in the Church would ever tolerate hatred of or prejudice towards any of the Lord's children.
-- Timothy M. Dolan

#Children #Hatred #Church
Prayer immediately turns us into something greater than ourselves.
-- Timothy M. Dolan

#Prayer #Turns
My first pastoral letter's gonna be a condemnation of light beer and instant mashed potatoes -- I hate those two things.
-- Timothy M. Dolan

#Hate #Beer #Light
The National Catholic Register's coverage of the Church universal, and the Church in our own country, is splendid.
-- Timothy M. Dolan

#Country #Catholic #Church
We must never allow September 11th to become a time for protest and division. Instead, this day must remain a time for promoting peace and mutual respect.
-- Timothy M. Dolan

#September 11 #Division #Protest
Marriage is the real vocation crisis in the United States... We have a vocation crisis to life-long, life-giving, loving, faithful marriage. If we take care of that one, we'll have all the priests and nuns we'll need for the Church.
-- Timothy M. Dolan

#Real #Long #Giving

The mighty edifice of Government science dominated the scene in the middle of the 20th century as a Gothic cathedral dominated a 13th century landscape. The work of many hands over many years, it universally inspired admiration, wonder and fear.
It's embarrassing ... you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller's List.
The whole history of Israel, its ritual and its government, is explicable only as it is typical of the spiritual Israel, of the sacrifice on Calvary, of the precious blood which alone can wash away sin.
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
To conquer a nation, first disarm its citizens.
To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection.
No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
Now if you should hear any one say that Lincoln don't [sic] want to go to Congress, I wish you as a personal friend of mine, wouldtell him that you have reason to believe he is mistaken.
The spectrum on the list is very broad. It includes leftists who think that whiny liberals should be stuffed in a sack and drowned.

Timothy M. Dolan famous quotes

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