Book Review: Parsifal by Richard Wagner as Retold by Oliver Huckel
“If thy heart be pure / The Grail will be to thee as food and drink!” – Gurnemanz
“If thy heart be pure / The Grail will be to thee as food and drink!” – Gurnemanz
“I will arise, and will go to my father, and say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee: I am not worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.”
– Luke 15:18-19
“People give their heroes life-blood, language, character, geniality, impulse; but heroes, on the other hand, bestow immortal history upon their people.”
– Fr. Juan Echevarria
“Son, thou must not be turned back, nor presently cast down, when thou hearest what the way of the perfect: but rather be inclined thereby to undertake great things, or at least to sigh after them with an earnest desire.”
– Imitation of Christ Bk. III, Chapter 32
“I see no reason why men of the world, who from inclination have applied themselves to serious studies, should not number themselves among the defenders of the most holy of causes.” – Joseph de Maistre
“He does not call those who are worthy, but those He chooses to call.”
– St. Thérèse
“There is no disorder that ETERNAL LOVE does not turn against the principle of evil.” – Joseph de Maistre
“He often makes choice of those who seem to themselves the most unfit for the greatest achievements and chooses such as the world despises to confound the pride of the world.” – Bishop Richard Challoner
“You have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth. But I say to you not to resist evil: but if one strike thee on thy right cheek, turn to him also the other: And if a man will contend with thee in judgment, and take away thy coat, let go thy cloak also unto him.” – Matthew 5:38-40
“He that shall overcome, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God; and he shall go out no more; and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God, and my new name.” – Apocalypse 3:12