"You start reading C.S. Lewis, then you’re reading G.K. Chesterton, then you’re a Catholic."

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Source : "Ross Douthat’s Fantasy World". Interview with Mark Oppenheimer, www.motherjones.com. January 2010.

Ross Douthat

#Reading Quotes #Catholic Quotes

“An environment of carping and criticism is dangerous to your mental health, whereas those who support and encourage you bring out your true potential and spark your genius.”
“And come, blue deeps! magnificently strown With coloured clouds â€” large, light, and fugitive...”
“Maybe the world, without us, is the real poem.”
“No offence to Hugh MacLennan, but you don't even have to know or understand any deep philosophy that's being espoused, you can just have the feeling of those words together, and that you know them and can sing along with that melody with your fist up in the air. It's a wild vehicle for sentiment, because it's so powerful on the musical front.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.”

Source : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.) (1971). “Chagall at the Met”, Leon Amiel Publisher
“WIDE, the margin between carte blanche and the white page. Nevertheless it is not in the margin that you can find me, but in the yet whiter one that separates the word-strewn sheet from the transparent, the written page from the one to be written in the infinite space where the eye turns back to the eye, and the hand to the pen, where all we write is erased, even as you write it. For the book imperceptibly takes shape within the book we will never finish. There is my desert.”
“It's only too late if you don't start now.”
“A Christianity without a passion to turn the world upside down is not reflective of apostolic Christianity”

Source : Carl F. H. Henry (2003). “The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism”, p.16, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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