33 Quotes by James Carroll

Real generosity toward the future,” as Camus famously put it, “lies in giving all to the present.

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions. – Joyce Carol Oates.

The God who makes the promise keeps the promise.

The New Testament, that is, was made by the Church; the Church was not made by the New Testament. That is why, speaking generally, Catholics differ from Protestants in the importance given to the authority of the Bible on the one hand, and to the authority of the Church on the other. Therefore, Catholics more than Protestants would tend to say that the community has authority over its normative literature.

God suffers with you!

The absence of Jesus is the mode of his presence.