HeyJaredPulled Quotes (CST edition)
Mostly Catholic quotes, ideologically diverse, addressing Catholic Social Teaching that I found helpful, provocative, insightful, challenging, interesting, wrong but revealing, etc.
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G. K. Chesterton on the un-Christian trust of the rich and powerful (opens the original)
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The English writer and journalist G. K. Chesterton was one of the leading public intellectuals of his day, particularly in the mid-1900s through the late 1920s, a friend and opponent of men like George Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells. A man who took pleasure in subverting common assumptions and undoing prejudices, and emphasizing the power and limits of human reason, he entered the Church in 1922 at the age of 48. These insight into the corruptions of wealth appeared in his classic Orthodoxy, publi
Fulton Sheen on the world versus the Church (opens the original)
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This is the 200th post of the Catholic version of Pulled Quotes and about the 50th after its focusing on Catholic Social Teaching. I hope you enjoy it and find the quotations helpful and interesting. If you do, please recommend it to people you think might like it too, including your social media friends and readers if you have a weblog or substack. I haven’t the skills nor the personality to be good at self-promotion and would be grateful for the help.Beatified on Thursday, Fulton J. Sheen was
Hilaire Belloc on politicians, of whom he did not think well (opens the original)
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Hilaire Belloc was a prolific writer of essays, novels, histories, poems, and memoirs, briefly a Member of Parliament, briefly the editor of a briefly major political journal, The New Witness, a public intellectual, and serious and notably combative Catholic. Among his friends and allies was G. K. Chesterton. Belloc was not fond of politicians and his verse could be deceptively wry. The first entry appeared in Hilaire Belloc’s Cautionary Verses; the second in full in The New Witness, which Bello
Sigrid Undset on the nonsense that love is more powerful than hate (opens the original)
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Awarded the Nobel Prize in 1928 for her historical novels Kristin Lavransdatter and The Master Of Hestviken, set in medieval Norway, Sigrid Undset was a rare Catholic convert in her officially Lutheran country and its major Catholic voice. An unrelenting public critic of the Nazis, she was singled out for arrest and probable execution when the Germans invaded, and had to flee Norway, eventually settling in Brooklyn Heights. Her thoughts on the power of hatred appear in “The Strongest Power,” a 1
Thomas Merton on mass movements, like the one that killed Jesus (opens the original)
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A brilliant and intellectual peripatetic young man, Thomas Merton entered the Church in 1938 at the age of 23, and three years later entered the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani, a Trappist monastery. He became one of the Church’s best-known writers in the wider world, starting with his bestselling autobiography The Seven Storey Mountain, which appeared in 1948. This comes from essay “Christianity and Totalitarianism,” published in his 1964 collection Disputed Questions.We are not saved en masse.
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