Jesuit Quotes - Page 2

• The present moment is always full of infinite treasure. It contains far more than you can possibly grasp. Faith is the measure of its riches: what you find in the present moment is according to the measure of your faith. Love also is the measure: the more the heart loves, the more it rejoices in what God provides. The will of God presents itself at each moment like an immense ocean that the desire of your heart cannot empty; yet you will drink from that ocean according to your faith and love.

  Jean-Pierre de Caussade

  Love, Inspirational, God

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• Pascal in his bitter rendition of the practices of the Jesuit intellectuals he despised, including their demonstration of "the utility of interpretation," a device of manufacturing consent based on reinterpretation of sacred texts to serve wealth, power, and privilege.

  Noam Chomsky

  Practice, Sacred, Privilege

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• I do not like the reappearance of the Jesuits... Nevertheless, we are compelled by our system of religious toleration to offer them an asylum.

  John Adams

  Religious, Atheism, Asylums

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• The monk, the inquisitor, and the Jesuit were lords of Spain,- sovereigns of her sovereign, for they had formed the dark and narrow mind of that tyrannical recluse. They had formed the minds of her people, quenched in blood every spark of rising heresy, and given over a noble nation to a bigotry blind and inexorable as the doom of fate. Linked with pride, ambition, avarice, every passion of a rich, strong nature, potent for good and ill, it made the Spaniard of that day a scourge as dire as ever fell on man.

  Francis Parkman

  Strong, Ambition, Passion

  Francis Parkman (1927). “The Works of Francis Parkman”

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• I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation.

  Michael Moriarty

  Acting, Calling, Kind

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• I am firmly of the opinion that the Macintosh is Catholic and that DOS is Protestant. Indeed, the Macintosh is counterreformist and has been influenced by the methodical path of the Jesuits.... It is catechistic: the essence of revelation is dealt with via simple formulae and sumptuous icons. Everyone has a right to salvation. DOS is Protestant, or even Calvinistic. It allows free interpretation of scripture, demands difficult personal decisions, imposes a subtle hermeneutics upon the user, and takes for granted the idea that all can reach salvation.

  Umberto Eco

  Simple, Icons, Essence

  "Apple's holier-than-thou attitude may be its salvation" by John Naughton, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2009.

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• I entered the diocesan seminary. I liked the Dominicans, and I had Dominican friends. But then I chose the Society of Jesus, which I knew well because the seminary was entrusted to the Jesuits. Three things in particular struck me about the Society: the missionary spirit, community and discipline.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Discipline, Community

  Pope Francis (2014). “My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change”, p.19, A&C Black

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• The Jesuits had learned that a Christian mission to China could never succeed if it were not in a position to show and convince the Chinese intelligentsia of the superiority of the European culture.

  Hu Shih

  Christian, Chinese, Culture

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• You never observe a great intellectual movement in Europe in which the
  Jews do NOT greatly participate. The first Jesuits were Jews.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Europe, Intellectual, Movement

  Benjamin Disraeli (1844). “Coningsby, etc”, p.183

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• Marists are workers, we do all the work and Jesuits just think about it.

  Warren Mundine

  Thinking, Workers

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• Being a mixed-blood person of Ojibway and European ancestry, I always found that I only heard one side of the story - that was the conquerers' side, the side of the French Jesuit missionaries that came to live in what is now Ontario.

  Joseph Boyden

  Blood, Ontario, Stories

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Religions, of course, have their own demanding intellectual traditions, as Jesuits and Talmudic scholars might attest.... But, in its less rigorous, popular forms, religion is about as intellectually challenging as the average self-help book. (Like personal development literature, mass market books about spirituality and religion celebrate emotionalism and denigrate reason. They elevate the "truths" of myths and parables over empiricism.) In its more authoritarian forms, religion punishes questioning and rewards gullibility. Faith is not a function of stupidity but a frequent cause of it.

  Wendy Kaminer

  Book, Self, Average

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• Being a scientist helps to support both my life as a Jesuit and my belief in God.

  George Coyne

  Support, Helping, Belief

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I was suppose to be a Jesuit priest or a naval academy graduate.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Religious, Religion, Graduates

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• To me, it doesn't matter if your scapegoats are the Jews, the homosexuals, the male sex, the Masons, the Jesuits, the Welfare Parasites, the Power Elite, the female sex, the vegetarians, or the Communist Party. To the extent that you need a scapegoat, you simply have not got your brain programmed to work as an efficient problem-solving machine.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Sex, Party, Brain

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• I'm very interested in the history of Christianity, and what I can say for sure is that the Catholics and the Jesuits and stuff were very big on teaching and on learning.

  Ben Mendelsohn

  Teaching, Catholic, Stuff

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I really do believe that the Jesuit system is better for a country.

  Sergio Leone

  Country, Believe

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• Dan Brown, is a character from Foucault's Pendulum! I invented him. He shares my characters' fascinations - the world conspiracy of Rosicrucians, Masons, and Jesuits. The role of the Knights Templar. The hermetic secret. The principle that everything is connected. I suspect Dan Brown might not even exist.

  Umberto Eco

  Character, Knights, Secret

  "Umberto Eco in quotes - 10 of the best". Paris Review, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2016.

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• Castro wasn't a Marxist. He was a Catholic educated by the Christian Brothers and the Jesuits. But fundamentally, I'm not talking about practising Catholics, but rather about something which is inbred; that is, a part of your country, your heritage, your life.

  Dorothy Day

  Christian, Country, Brother

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• I never met a Jesuit before I applied for the order.

  Daniel Berrigan

  Order, Mets

  "A Conversation with Daniel Berrigan". Rattle Interview, www.rattle.com. May 3, 2016.

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• A cure by regression is homeopathic, like healing the damage done by ministers and ignorance with stupidity and Jesuits.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Healing, Ignorance, Stupidity

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• I'm not saying that the Americans had the same impact as the Jesuits, but I do see them as a very specialized populace, even in terms of being, to a degree, naïve. Because naiveté comes from lack of information.

  Sergio Leone

  Impact, Degrees, Information

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• It's always gratifying to share a hobby with a friend, and pining for erstwhile suitors falls into that category. In the months to come, Libby and I would analyze our respective exes with the gusto and intellectual rigor of Jesuits.

  Patricia Marx

  Fall, Intellectual, Hobbies

  Patricia Marx (2008). “Him Her Him Again The End of Him”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• How many educated Americans can even remember the names of the assassinated Jesuit intellectuals of El Salvador, or would know where to find a word they wrote? The answers are revealing, particularly when we draw the striking - and historically typical - contrast to the attitudes towards their counterparts in enemy domains.

  Noam Chomsky

  Attitude, Names, Enemy

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• Years ago I heard the Indian Jesuit Raimundo Panikkar say: Expect Nothing.

  Lawrence Fagg

  Years, Expect Nothing, Heard

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