Sacra Quotes

#1. The Summa Theologiae is not, as is sometimes supposed, a potpourri of theology and philosophy; it is wholly a Summa of Theology concerned with the Sacra Doctrina, the Holy Teaching of salvation given by God's revelation.

Brian Davies

#2. - John is a dangerous fanatic.
- And you are not ? - asked Dagon.
- I'm just dangerous.

Michael Scott

#3. The cursed hunger for gold. -Auri sacra fames

Virgil

#4. Scriptura sacra mentis oculis quasi quoddam speculum opponitur, ut interna nostra facies in ipsa videatur. Holy scripture is placed before the eyes of our mind like a mirror, so that we may view our inner face therein.

Pope Gregory I

#5. But to hear Mozart in a bombed city: how much more beautiful it sounds, as if it were composed to somehow soothe the ruins, to promise a wiser future rising from the rubble.

Ben Okri

#6. What happens when you broadcast the truth is you piss everyone off!

Milton William Cooper

#7. If life is really for the living, then the trick to living well is to learn to live it fully, to soak it up, to revel in it.

Joan D. Chittister

#8. Of course, I have to consider that I've written a lot of prose, but I do in my heart think of myself as being originally, and still primarily, a poet.

Vikram Seth