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Igino Giordani
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“[Freedom of thought] It is the freedom to think what one wants and to express everything one thinks, within the limits of truth and morality: without these, it could become an insult, slander, or perversion.”
Igino Giordani (1894–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Freedom of thought, like any activity of the mind, is valid if it respects the freedom of thought of others: it must therefore not offend the thoughts of others.”
Igino Giordani (1894–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This too is not a limitation, it is a defence of freedom itself.”
Igino Giordani (1894–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He sought God on those stony mule tracks, which skirted and ended in fords: he had now shown that he could only belong to Him: he could only be a John of God (p. 49)”
Igino Giordani (1894–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Because he was hungry for holiness – because he was holy – his modest faults as a soldier loomed in his conscience like crimes; and this happens to saints. (p. 50)”
Igino Giordani (1894–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A man who had never cared for his own economic interests, who indeed, as can be seen from all his actions, had never considered the economic side of his existence, that profession for him was nothing but an apostolate: a lay priesthood. (p. 63)”
Igino Giordani (1894–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The world produces evil: and the greatest evil is the social wickedness that fills the streets with wretched people without bread and without a roof over their heads.”
Igino Giordani (1894–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Giovanni will fight the world directly by throwing back its wickedness, by raising up its victims from the rubble. (p. 88)”
Igino Giordani (1894–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[Ref. to the Milanese Senavra Asylum] Even the calm lunatics or the slightly deranged in that environment became completely insane; it was an environment more suited to driving the sane mad than to bringing the insane to their senses. (p. 89)”
Igino Giordani (1894–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In serving one's neighbour, the soul is immersed, as if immersed in the love of God: in the sea, one is afraid. (p. 99)”
Igino Giordani (1894–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He who assists the poor assists Christ: and he does not so much good for them as he does for himself: for the Eternal Judge judges us on the basis of our service to the needy. (p. 126)”
Igino Giordani (1894–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Charity is like a fire that feeds itself by spreading [...]. (p. 134)”
Igino Giordani (1894–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As much as St Francis of Assisi had loved poverty, so much did St John of God love the poor; he loved them so much that, as the poet Lope de Vega was to note at the end of his "Song to the Exalted and Patriarch St John of God", "if he had met an angel and a poor man together, he would have left the angel and embraced the poor man" (p. 137)”
Igino Giordani (1894–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“History is a teacher who has no pupils; [...]. (p. VI)”
Igino Giordani (1894–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Since their time, Dostoevsky had posed the dilemma: either God or suicide; and Nietzsche had given Europe the choice of either returning to Catholicism or disappearing.”
Igino Giordani (1894–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Protestant Reformation was an individualistic revolt in which the sociality composed by the Church in the Middle Ages disintegrated. (p. XIII)”
Igino Giordani (1894–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Without the resistance of the Papacy and its recovery, perhaps what happened to the ancient world under the onslaught of barbarism would have happened to modern Europe – and still could happen. (p. XXVIII)”
Igino Giordani (1894–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the encyclical Quanta cura, Pius IX organically addresses all the main errors of his time, which, from rationalism to liberalism, undermined Christian doctrine and corrupted customs, causing upheaval in consciences and communities.”
Igino Giordani (1894–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Lacordaire accepted Lammenais' invitation to collaborate on L'Avenir, but he was never a disciple of that abbot, having arrived at the clarification of his ideas as a "penitent Catholic and unrepentant liberal", through an autonomous spiritual process, which evolved, even later, within margins different from those in which Lammenais's thought was contained. Indeed, there was never much harmony of ideas and affections between the two: they were two strong wills, two solidified characters, who controlled each other, but did not influence each other. In the spiritual duel to win over the generous soul of Montalambert, Lacordaire's straightforward tenacity won. And if the young layman, in the early years, oscillated in his formation between the two priests, subjugated by admiration for the master and attracted by the affection of the friend, and if Lamennais, in the inner process of his ideologies, allowed himself to be dominated by a strong individualism, which took him out of the communion of the faithful, Lacordaire was able to compress the impulses of nature within the framework of Catholic discipline and tradition, outside of which he did not see any useful social initiative, succeeding in enhancing the common programme within the scope of orthodoxy.”
Igino Giordani (1894–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source