Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • The greater the lie, the greater the chance that it will be believed.

  • A historical property has morals and ethics of the society that created it and it can be revived. What I mean is that we can discover new possibilities from the process of dismantling, transforming, and recreating.

  • History has become more important than ever because of the to unprecedented ability of the historical sciences to take in man's life on earth as a whole.

  • Narcissism and the Confederate dead cannot be connected logically, or even historically; even were the connection an historical fact, they would not stand connected as art, for no one experiences raw history.

  • Only the [Catholic] Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler’s campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel a great affection and admiration because the Church alone has had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual truth and moral freedom. I am forced thus to confess that what I once despised I now praise unreservedly.

  • I too had thoughts once of being an intellectual, but I found it too difficult.

  • There is no such thing as neutrality where the gospel is concerned.

  • I was injured because everyone around me was observing neutrality and keeping silent. After all, they saw that I wasn't ready to perform that element. But they kept quiet.

  • If net neutrality goes away, it will fundamentally change everything about the Internet.

  • Neutrality in things good or evil is both odious and prejudicial; but in matters of an indifferent nature is safe and commendable. Herein taking of parts maketh sides, and breaketh unity. In an unjust cause of separation, he that favoreth both parts may perhaps have least love of either side, but hath most charity in himself.