“After Bruno's death, during the first half of the seventeenth century, Descartes seemed about to take the leadership of human thought... in promoting an evolution doctrine as regards the mechanical formation of the solar system... but his constant dread of persecution, both from Catholics and Protestants, led him steadily to veil his thoughts and even to suppress them. ...Since Roger Bacon, perhaps, no great thinker had been so completely abased and thwarted by theological oppression.” FirstsHumansHalfCenturyEvolutionRegardCatholicConstantDoctrineOppressionThinkerDreadPersecutionVeilsPromotingFormationTheologicalProtestantsRogerSolar SystemHuman ThoughtGreat Thinkers Author:Andrew Dickson White
“Oh, yes, I taught 13 and a half years. I taught English, first at a Catholic school and then at El Toro High School in Lake Forest, Calif.” YearsFirstsSchoolHalfTaughtHigh SchoolCatholicForestsLakesHalf A YearCatholic School Author:Elizabeth George
“I think, internally, we Catholics have known this for a long time. I think we're just thrilled and grateful that the rest of the world now is sharing in the esteem and gratitude that we've had for Pope John Paul II for 26 and a half years.” ThinkingWorldYearsLongHalfKnownGratitudeLong TimeCatholicGratefulEsteemPopeHalf A YearJohn PaulJohn Paul IiPope John Paul Author:Chris Matthews
“I'm an Episcopal, which is Catholic Lite. It's like same religion, half the guilt.” HalfCatholicGuilt Author:Robin Williams
“We don't have much wisdom about the second half when things really open up and end up looking a lot more progressive. In my own Catholic church, for example, we're sort of circling the wagons today by thinking that more moral strictures, more exclusionary rules on this or that, that that's going to do for the first half of life. I don't think it really does.” ThinkingFirstsDoeEndsTodayChurchMy OwnHalfMoralExampleCatholicProgressiveCatholic ChurchWagons Author:Richard Rohr
“I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn't the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up.” YearsSchoolHalfHigh SchoolCatholicCool ThingsHalf A Year Author:Mandy Moore
“The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.” WholeHalfVirtueMoralityTruth IsCatholicVicesAlliesHalf TruthWhole Truth Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“You cannot be half a saint; you must be a whole saint or no saint at all.” WholeHalfCatholicSaintCatholicismCatholic Saint Author:Therese of Lisieux
“Living out one's faith is either no way to live or the only way to live; it's either imprisonment, or the only path to freedom. It offers happiness, or it frustrates the pursuit. There is no half-love, half-religion, half-worship, half-belief, half-truth. There is no kinda-sorta.” WayBeliefHalfPathOffersWorshipCatholicPursuitWay To LiveImprisonmentHalf Truth Author:Tarek Saab