“But words are imperfect, and our system of writing, for all its great glories, has its limitations in terms of its ability to describe creation in all its manifest and hidden glories … So we would have to invent another way of describing things.”

The Circle of Memory, An Autobiography (2016)

Transcript of Tom Cruise on Scientology (January 16, 2008)

Variant: It takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. And even more courage to see it in the one you love
Source: An Ideal Husband

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 36.

Source: The Ethics of Freedom (1973 - 1974), p. 251
Context: Man himself is exalted, and paradoxical though it may seem to be, this means the crushing of man. Man's enslavement is the reverse side of the glory, value, and importance that are ascribed to him. The more a society magnifies human greatness, the more one will see men alienated, enslaved, imprisoned, and tortured, in it. Humanism prepares the ground for the anti-human. We do not say that this is an intellectual paradox. All one need do is read history. Men have never been so oppressed as in societies which set man at the pinnacle of values and exalt his greatness or make him the measure of all things. For in such societies freedom is detached from its purpose, which is, we affirm, the glory of God.

Source: The Power of Your Subconscious Mind

"Saudi Arabia wasn’t always this repressive. Now it’s unbearable." in The Washington Post (18 September 2017)

Archbishop Rugambwa: "the PMS are one of the most important and relevant instruments in order to hold high the priority of the Missio ad Gentes in the local Churches" http://www.fides.org/en/news/35667-VATICAN_Archbishop_Rugambwa_the_PMS_are_one_of_the_most_important_and_relevant_instruments_in_order_to_hold_high_the_priority_of_the_Missio_ad_Gentes_in_the_local_Churches (6 May 2014)

Speech in the Senate on the National Bank Charter (February 11, 1811).