Catholic World, Volume 125

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Paulist Fathers, 1927
 

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Page 366 - Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
Page 371 - Of aspect more sublime; that blessed mood, In which the burthen of the mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this unintelligible world Is lightened: — that serene and blessed mood, In which the affections gently lead us on,— Until, the breath of this corporeal frame And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul: 319 While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the...
Page 279 - For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion 16 So then, it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.
Page 30 - Mens sana in corpore sano, a sound mind in a sound body, will be always able to make a good citizen.
Page 214 - The time has come', the Walrus said, 'To talk of many things: Of shoes - and ships - and sealing wax Of cabbages - and kings And why the sea is boiling hot And whether pigs have wings.
Page 550 - America is God's crucible, the great Melting Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming! Here you stand, good folk, think I, when I see them at Ellis Island, here you stand in your fifty groups, with your fifty languages and histories, and your fifty blood hatreds and rivalries. But you won't be long like that, brothers, for these are the fires of God...
Page 653 - I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
Page 550 - Jews and Russians — into the Crucible with you all! God is making the American! The real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the Crucible, I tell you — he will be the fusion of all races, the coming superman.
Page 333 - HEABLY beloved, forasmuch as all men are conceived and born in sin ; and that our Saviour Christ saith, None can enter into the kingdom of God, except he be regenerate and born anew of Water and of the Holy Ghost...
Page 435 - ... a great deal of learning, and a choice collection of books. He is indeed an extraordinary man, — few such people are to be met with nowadays.

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