Signposts

You are sure to get out-pointed if you pick a fight with a porcupine.

— Author unknown  <link>

Christianity is one beggar telling another beggar where he found the bread.

— D.T. Niles  <link>

“Where is God when I sin?” I asked a spiritual director. “Suffering with you on the Cross,” he said. And I began to understand Christianity.

— Fr. Charles Stanley, OFM Cap., source  <link>

Science has become as full of pride and prejudice as ever religion was.

— John Macmurray  <link>

When you can no longer tell your own story without telling his, that’s when you have become a Christian.

— Fr. Charles Stanley, OFM Cap., source  <link>

From the Big Bang…

Our world is now understood to be a world where something really happens; the whole story of the world need not have been written down in the first quantum like a song on the disk of a phonograph. The whole matter of the world must have been present at the beginning, but the story it has to tell may be written step by step.

— Georges Lemaitre  <link>

The fanatical atheists are like slaves who are still feeling the weight of their chains which they have thrown off after hard struggle. They are creatures who—in their grudge against traditional religion as the “opium of the masses”—cannot hear the music of the spheres.

— Albert Einstein  <link>

The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.

— Mary Catherine Bateson  <link>

…to ask whether God or evolution created life is like asking whether Shakespeare or Hamlet killed Polonius. If there is no Shakespeare, Hamlet’s act is meaningless. It is merely the accidental arrangement of ink on a page. If there is a Shakespeare, however, his existence as the creator of the literary Denmark does not obviate the drama of the play. It is rather a necessary prerequisite for it. Shakespeare, as a playwright, is not a competitor with the drama of the play. 

— Michael Baruzzini, paraphrasing Stephen Barr, The Beauty of Creation  <link>

Virtue is nothing without the trial of temptation, for there is no conflict without an enemy, no victory without strife.

— St. Leo the Great  <link>

Science encourages legitimate human curiosity to know the universe and to admire and contemplate its beauty and goodness. In this way we enter into communion with God himself, who looked upon what He had created and saw that it was very good.

— Pope John Paul II, “Discourse to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences”, 26 Sep 1986  <link>

Nowhere other than looking at himself in the mirror of the Cross can man better understand how much he is worth.

— St. Anthony of Padua  <link>