A quotation from Robert Ingersoll

One of these gods, according to the account, drowned an entire world, with the exception of eight persons. The old, the young, the beautiful and the helpless were remorsely devoured by the shoreless sea. This, the most fearful tragedy that the imagination of ignorant priests ever conceived, was the act, not of a devil, but of a god, so-called, whom men ignorantly worship unto this day.

Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, agnostic, orator
Lecture (1872-01-29), “The Gods,” Fairbury Hall, Fairbury, Illinois

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A quotation from Alexander Hamilton

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the Divinity itself, and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.

Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804) American statesman, author
Essay (1775-02-23), “The Farmer Refuted”

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A quotation from Euripides

CHORUS: Many are the forms of what is unknown.
   Much that the gods achieve is surprise.
   What we look for does not come to pass;
   God finds a way for what none foresaw.
   Such was the end of this story.
 
[ΧΟΡΟΣ: πολλαὶ μορφαὶ τῶν δαιμονίων,
   πολλὰ δ᾽ ἀέλπτως κραίνουσι θεοί:
   καὶ τὰ δοκηθέντ᾽ οὐκ ἐτελέσθη,
   τῶν δ᾽ ἀδοκήτων πόρον ηὗρε θεός.
   τοιόνδ᾽ ἀπέβη τόδε πρᾶγμα.]

Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Helen [Ἑλένη], l. 1688ff, final lines (412 BC) [tr. Lattimore (1956)]

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A quotation from Shakespeare

KING RICHARD: Not all the water in the rough rude sea
   Can wash the balm off from an anointed king.
   The breath of worldly men cannot depose
   The deputy elected by the Lord.
   For every man that Bolingbroke hath pressed
   To lift shrewd steel against our golden crown,
   God for His Richard hath in heavenly pay
   A glorious angel. Then, if angels fight,
   Weak men must fall, for heaven still guards the right.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Richard II, Act 3, sc. 2, l. 55ff (3.2.55) (1595)

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A quotation from Robert Ingersoll

Nothing is so pleasing to these gods as the butchery of unbelievers. Nothing so enrages them, even now, as to have some one deny their existence.

Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, agnostic, orator
Lecture (1872-01-29), “The Gods,” Fairbury Hall, Fairbury, Illinois

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A quotation from Euripides

CHORUS: Who among men, though he search to the uttermost end,
   can claim to have found what is meant
   by god or the absence of god or of something between?
   For he sees the works of the gods
   turning now here and now there,
   now backwards again through a fate
   beyond calculation or forethought.
   
[ΧΟΡΟΣ: ὅ τι θεὸς ἢ μὴ θεὸς ἢ τὸ μέσον,
   τίς φησ᾽ ἐρευνήσας βροτῶν
   μακρότατον πέρας εὑρεῖν
   ὃς τὰ θεῶν ἐσορᾷ
   δεῦρο καὶ αὖθις ἐκεῖσε
   καὶ πάλιν ἀντιλόγοις
   πηδῶντ᾽ ἀνελπίστοις τύχαις;]

Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Helen [Ἑλένη], l. 1137ff (412 BC) [tr. Warner (1951)]

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A quotation from Homer

For who could see the passage of a goddess
Unless she wished his mortal eyes aware?
 
                    [τίς ἂν θεὸν οὐκ ἐθέλοντα
ὀφθαλμοῖσιν ἴδοιτ᾽ ἢ ἔνθ᾽ ἢ ἔνθα κιόντα]

Homer (fl. 7th-8th C. BC) Greek author
The Odyssey [Ὀδύσσεια], Book 10, l. 575ff (10.575-576) [Odysseus] (c. 700 BC) [tr. Fitzgerald (1961)]

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A quotation from Moliere

HENRIETTE: Heaven, that orders all with sovereign power,
   Forms us at birth for different uses, sister.
   Not every spirit, if it would, can furnish
   The stuff of which philosophers are made.
 
[Le ciel, dont nous voyons que l’ordre est tout-puissant,
Pour différents emplois nous fabrique en naissant ;
Et tout esprit n’est pas composé d’une étoffe
Qui se trouve taillée à faire un philosophe.]

Molière (1622-1673) French playwright, actor [stage name for Jean-Baptiste Poquelin]
Les Femmes Savantes [The Learned Ladies], Act 1, sc. 1, (1692) [tr. Page (1908)]

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A quotation from Alcuin

The voice of the people is the voice of God.
 
[Vox populi, vox Dei.]

Alcuin of York (c. 735-804) Anglo-Latin scholar, clergyman, poet, teacher [Flaccus Albinus Alcuinus, Ealhwine, Alhwin, or Alchoin]
Letter (AD 798) to Charlemagne

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Quote of the day, 16 August: Blessed Maria Sagrario

In this vale of tears, suffering will not be lacking, and we should be content to have something to offer to our most beloved Jesus, who wanted so much to suffer for love of us. The most direct way to unite ourselves to God is that of the cross, so we should always desire it. May the Lord not permit that I be separated from his divine will.

Blessed be God who gives us these ways of offering ourselves up to his love! The day will arrive when we will rejoice for having suffered in this way. Meanwhile, let us be generous, suffering everything, if not with happiness, at least in close conformity to the divine will of him who suffered so much out of love for us. However great are our sufferings, they come nowhere near his.

Blessed be he who arranges everything for our good! In possessing him, we possess everything.

Blessed Maria Sagrario of St. Aloysius Gonzaga

Excerpt from the Office of Readings

We are grateful to our Discalced Carmelite Friars for providing the English texts of liturgical offices published after the 1993 edition of the Carmelite Proper—Liturgy of the Hours.

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