{"quotes":[{"text":"Powerful to alleviate, to delay, to camouflage, though money is, in the end it lets us down.","author":"Caryll Houselander","tags":["catholic-","money"],"id":6657,"author_id":"Caryll+Houselander"},{"text":"Tolkien did admit that, 'As a guide, I had only my own feelings for what is appealing or moving.' In other words ~ he wrote about what interested him ~ and despite his protestation of including anything allegorical into his tale, Catholic history and mystic prophecy obviously received its fair share of attention ...","author":"E.A. Bucchianeri","tags":["catholic","catholic-","catholic-prophecies","catholicism","catholics","fantasy","fantasy-books","history","inspiration","jrr-tolkien","lord-of-the-rings","mysticism","prophecies","prophecy","prophecy-in-fiction","tolkien","writing","writing-books"],"id":14601,"author_id":"E.A.+Bucchianeri"},{"text":"Poor God, how often He is blamed for all the suffering in theworld. It’s like praising Satan for allowing all the good that happens.","author":"E.A. Bucchianeri","tags":["blame","blame-game","catholic","catholic-","christian","gadfly","god","good","good-and-evil","goodness","human-nature","pain","satan","suffering","suffering-of-humanity","sufferings","thought-provoking"],"id":32028,"author_id":"E.A.+Bucchianeri"},{"text":"... How terrible is the pain of the mind and heart when the freedom of mankind is suppressed!","author":"E.A. Bucchianeri","tags":["catholic-","depression","free-choice","free-will","freedom","gadfly","heart","heartache","liberty","mind","pain","persecution","suppression","tyranny"],"id":35584,"author_id":"E.A.+Bucchianeri"},{"text":"The gates of Hell are terrible to behold, are they not?","author":"E.A. Bucchianeri","tags":["catholic","catholic-","christian","eternity","evil","gates","gates-of-hell","gateway","hell","lost-souls","terror","truth","wisdom"],"id":44456,"author_id":"E.A.+Bucchianeri"},{"text":"There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all.","author":"E.A. Bucchianeri","tags":["art","artists","arts","arts-and-humanities","catholic","catholic-","christian","dignity","dignity-in-the-arts","ethics","ethics-and-moral-philosophy","free-for-all","freedom","freedom-of-expression","gadfly","limits","media","moderation","modesty","morality","morals","virtue","virtue-of-modesty","virtues","virtues-and-vices"],"id":50852,"author_id":"E.A.+Bucchianeri"},{"text":"The sense of the joy in anything is the sense of Christ.","author":"Caryll Houselander","tags":["catholic","catholic-","christ","christian","joy","mary"],"id":51183,"author_id":"Caryll+Houselander"},{"text":"I wanted to shut my mind, that my thoughts might closeon my own peace, I wanted to closethe peace of my love in my heartlike dew in a dark rose.'From 'Philip Speaks.","author":"Caryll Houselander","tags":["catholic-","love","peace","rose"],"id":51890,"author_id":"Caryll+Houselander"},{"text":"Socrates: Have you noticed on our journey how often the citizens of this new land remind each other it is a free country? Plato: I have, and think it odd they do this.Socrates: How so, Plato?Plato: It is like reminding a baker he is a baker, or a sculptor he is asculptor.Socrates: You mean to say if someone is convinced of their trade, they haveno need to be reminded.Plato: That is correct.Socrates: I agree. If these citizens were convinced of their freedom, they would not need reminders.","author":"E.A. Bucchianeri","tags":["catholic","catholic-","christian","citizens","civil-liberty","free-country","freedom","freedom-of-thought","gadfly","liberty","philosophers","philosophical","philosophy","plato","socrates","thought-provoking","wisdom","words-of-wisdom"],"id":54205,"author_id":"E.A.+Bucchianeri"},{"text":"Broken things are precious. We eat broken bread because we share in the depth of our Lord and His broken life. Broken flowers give perfume. Broken incense is used in adoration. A broken ship saved Paul and many other passengers on their way to Rome. Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.","author":"Fulton J. Sheen","tags":["bread","broken","broken-heart","catholic-","flowers","god","ship"],"id":57906,"author_id":"Fulton+J.+Sheen"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":45,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}