Encyclicals Of John Quotes

#1. Habit is as fatal to a sense of wrongdoing as to active enjoyment.

Aldous Huxley

#2. Nor is it a short experience that can instruct us [...], because the real effects of moral causes are not always immediate; that which in the first instance is prejudicial may be excellent in its remoter operation, and its excellence may arise even from the ill effects it produces in the beginning.

Edmund Burke

#3. It was the gray sea that bore you and the towering rocks, so sheer the heart in you is turned from us.

Homer

#4. There was a time when papal encyclicals were treated as virtual pronouncements of papal infallibility. There are still a small minority of Catholics who cite Pope Paul VI's 1968 document Humanae Vitae - which outlawed artificial birth control - as the word of God.

John Cornwell

#5. Poetry's work is not simply the recording of inner or outer perception; it makes by words and music new possibilities of perceiving

Jane Hirshfield

#6. At first. And then eventually it's realized that all that annoyance and mistrust is actually romantic tension.

Kasie West

#7. It struck me that our history is contained in the home we live in, that we are shaped by the ability of these simple structures to resist being defiled

Achmat Dangor

#8. But in my college years it got to the point where my friends and I didn't do anything without consuming a massive amount of alcohol before we went anywhere or did anything, and you know that.

Jim Coleman