Penny Lernoux quotes

“You can look at a slum or a peasant village, but it is only by entering into the world - by living in it -that you begin to understand what it is like to be powerless, to be like Christ.”
-- Penny Lernoux

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“Although the mass of the people accepted the white man's God, either under physical duress or because he seemed more powerful than their own Gods, they never assimilated the ideas of Christianity.”
-- Penny Lernoux

Source : Penny Lernoux (1980). “Cry of the People: The Struggle for Human Rights in Latin America--the Catholic Church in Conflict with U.S. Policy”

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“And many of the people who buy or found banks have had no experience in banking at all. If they can learn it, so can we.”
-- Penny Lernoux

Source : Penny Lernoux (1984). “In Banks We Trust”, Anchor Books

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“In contrast, traditional Catholic churches serve vast numbers of people who have little or nothing in common, and they are often impersonal supermarkets for the sacraments.”
-- Penny Lernoux

Source : "The Fundamentalist Surge in Latin America" by Penny Lernoux in "The Christian Century" (p. 51), January 20, 1988.

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“At stake are two different visions of faith, the Church of Caesar, powerful and rich; and the Church of Christ - loving, poor and spiritually rich.”
-- Penny Lernoux

Source : Penny Lernoux (1990). “People of God: the struggle for world Catholicism”, Penguin Group USA

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“Opus Dei is an efficient machine run to achieve world power.”
-- Penny Lernoux

Source : "People of God: The Struggle for World Catholicism". Book by Penny Lernoux, 1989.

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“Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.”

“Manchester has everything but good looks..., the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery.”

“A high-brow is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.”

“Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad.”

“The era of procrastination...is coming to a close...we are entering a period of consequences - Winston Churchill (warning about the danger of appeasement”

“Margaret Kochamma's tiny, ordered life relinquished itself to this truly baroque bedlam with the quiet gasp of a warm body entering a chilly sea.”

“It is foolish to think that we will enter heaven without entering into ourselves.”

“America may be entering it's Michael Jordan on the Wizards period.”

“Priests might divide the world into good and bad. In battle there was strong and weak and nothing else.”

“Let me tell you, though: being the smartest boy in the world wasn’t easy. I didn’t ask for this. I didn’t want this. On the contrary, it was a huge burden. First, there was the task of keeping my brain perfectly protected. My cerebral cortex was a national treasure, a masterpiece of the Sistine Chapel of brains. This was not something that could be treated frivolously. If I could have locked it in a safe, I would have. Instead, I became obsessed with brain damage.”