Irenaeus of Lyons

Saint Irenaeus of Lyons (ca. A.D. 130-ca. 202) was a Greek-born Catholic bishop, theologian, and early church father who evangelized southern France. He was declared Doctor of the Church by Pope Francis in 2022.

The knot of Eve's disobedience was untied by Mary's obedience: what the virgin Eve bound through her disbelief, Mary loosed by her faith.

Against Heresies

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Quotes

The West has lost the golden thread that binds us to God, Creation, and each other. Unless we find it again, there is no hope of halting our dissolution.

Rod Dreher

I always go into the deal anticipating the worst. If you plan for the worst—if you can live with the worst—the good will always take care of itself.

Donald Trump

If the people are stupid, they can be easily governed.

Shang Yang

The fault of others is easily perceived, but that of one’s self is difficult to perceive; a man winnows his neighbor’s faults like chaff, but his own fault he hides, as a cheat hides the bad die from the player.

Siddhartha Gautama

In mathematics you don’t understand things. You just get used to them.

John von Neumann

A healthy republican government must rest upon individuals, not upon classes or sections.

Teddy Roosevelt

I am not an Atheist. I do not know if I can define myself as a Pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds.

Albert Einstein

The emotions of oratory have been worn down through long years of overuse.

Edward Bernays

Your room is not your prison. You are.

Sylvia Plath

Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.

William O. Douglas

One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool.

George Orwell

In a time of universal deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

Unknown

Science consists largely in telling people things which they already know, in a language which they cannot understand.

Anonymous

In a free market, the money of ordinary people is just as good as the money of the rich—and in the aggregate, there is often more of it.

Thomas Sowell

If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.

Mark Twain

First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

Thomas à Kempis

I take toleration to be a part of religion. I do not know which I would sacrifice; I would keep them both.

Edmund Burke

And now have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the senses?

Edgar Allan Poe

I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible the main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60 million [Russians], I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: ‘Men have forgotten God . . . ’

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

You could compile . . . the worst book in the world entirely out of . . . passages from the best writers in the world.

G.K. Chesterton

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