Devout Catholic

Famous quotes containing the words devout and/or catholic:

“The devout have laid out gardens in the desert.”
—Robert Duncan (b. 1919)

“You do not mean by mystery what a Catholic does. You mean an interesting uncertainty: the uncertainty ceasing interest ceases also.... But a Catholic by mystery means an incomprehensible certainty: without certainty, without formulation there is no interest;... the clearer the formulation the greater the interest.”
—Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)