No totalitarian authority nor authoritarian state can tolerate those who have an absolute by which to judge that state and its actions. The Christian….
In Job and the Psalms we shall find more sublime ideas, more elevated language, than in any of the heathen versifiers of Greece or Rome..
It's not easy to play your best for 40 weeks. It happens every year, I don't play well in Rome or Hamburg -- I don't know why -- but then I play well….
Rome's just a city like anywhere else. A vastly overrated city, I'd say. It trades on belief just as Stratford trades on Shakespeare..
Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much..
Abortion is without a doubt one of the greatest moral evils within modernity. As the "Advocate of Christian Memory," a pope must take up the mantle o….
Silent enim leges inter arma (Laws are silent in times of war)..
When in Rome, live as the Romans do. When elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere..
Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss of freedom and danced ….
Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?.
Those have not lived who have not seen Rome..
And here we encounter the seeds of government disaster and collapse - the kind that wrecked ancient Rome and every other civilization that allowed a ….
Creationism: the theory that Rome was built in a day..
I'm sure that Nero didn't set fire to Rome. It was the Christian-Bolsheviks who did that, just as the Commune set fire to Paris in 1871 and the Commu….
If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge..
A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both high posts are reserved for men favored….
One can be tired of Rome after three weeks and feel one has exhausted it; after three months one feels that one has not even scratched the surface of….
In Rome, I loved seeing the Caravaggios. There are churches in Rome that have Caravaggios, and there's one, not far from Piazza Navona, that has the ….
Genius, when employed in works whose tendency it is to demoralize and to degrade us, should be contemplated with abhorrence rather than with admirati….
In ancient Israel and Rome the judge had appeared as a stand-in for the divine, and corruption was a blinding of the representative of the divine..
All roads lead to Rome, and there were times when it might have struck us that almost every branch of study or subject of conversation skirted forbid….