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Tim Drake "Author and Journalist"
Fantastic resource This is not the kind of book that you would sit down and read from cover to cover.Rather, this is a superb resource for the student, academic, scholar, or writer looking for what a particular Saint may have had to say on a particular topic. Look up “Politics” for example, and you will find 19 quotes from which to choose on the topic.Under the heading of “Abortion” for example, Saint Basil the Great is quoted as saying, “A woman who deliberately destroys a…
Great for Short Meditations or Scholarly Study Paul Thigpen’s latest book, “A Dictionary of Quotes from the Saints” is not only full of short statements on Catholic beliefs from the Saints and Blesseds, it is most helpfully organized. Whatever topic one wishes to explore, the alphabetized headings make it easy to find a quote for meditation, for composing a lecture, or for inclusion in an article. The Saints are our elder brothers and sisters. They speak to us here in this book from over all the ages to inspire, exhort,…
Fantastic resource This is not the kind of book that you would sit down and read from cover to cover.Rather, this is a superb resource for the student, academic, scholar, or writer looking for what a particular Saint may have had to say on a particular topic. Look up “Politics” for example, and you will find 19 quotes from which to choose on the topic.Under the heading of “Abortion” for example, Saint Basil the Great is quoted as saying, “A woman who deliberately destroys a…
Great for Short Meditations or Scholarly Study Paul Thigpen’s latest book, “A Dictionary of Quotes from the Saints” is not only full of short statements on Catholic beliefs from the Saints and Blesseds, it is most helpfully organized. Whatever topic one wishes to explore, the alphabetized headings make it easy to find a quote for meditation, for composing a lecture, or for inclusion in an article. The Saints are our elder brothers and sisters. They speak to us here in this book from over all the ages to inspire, exhort,…