Here is a selection of the first few quotes I recorded in my book journal:
- "In these 3 respects - boredom, skepticism, the Church's own limitations - our contemporary situation replicates 2,000 years of Christian history.... The really new and distinctively modern change is that what [the Church] proclaims is inherently dehumanizing." (page 20)
- "The doctrine of the Trinity reinforces the Christian claim that self-giving and receptivity are the road to human flourishing." (page 32)
- [On Vatican II] "John XXIII had something different in mind [than earlier ecumenical councils].... Some of what John XXIII hoped for actually happened.... [but] Western Europe today is the most religiously arid place on the planet." (page 36)
- "The story of salvation - the story of the Church, and the story of Israel that made the Church's story possible - is the world's story, rightly understood." (page 41)
- "Sanctity, in Catholicism, is not just for the sanctuary." (page 44)
- "Doctrine, those defined truths which mark the boundaries of Catholicism, is in fact liberating." (page 50)
- "Authority in the Church exists to insure that Christians do not settle for mediocrity." (page 51)
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