If you know anything about Loyola or the Jesuits, you would expect us to do this. People don't come to a Jesuit university expecting mediocrity.
Quotes about jesuits (12 Quotes)
My History of the Jesuits is in four volumes. This society has been a greater calamity to mankind than the French Revolution, or Napoleon's despotism or ideology. It has obstructed progress of reformation and the improvement of the human mind in society much longer and more fatally.
Well, I've been in several films including documentaries, but the big blockbuster, I was hired as advisor to the actors, I was trying to make Jesuits out of them.
Precisely for this reason, St. Ignatius wanted young Jesuits to be formed for long years in the spiritual life and in studies.
My history of the Jesuits is not elegantly written, but is supported by unquestionable authorities, is very particular and very horrible. Their restoration is indeed 'a step toward darkness,' cruelty, perfidy, despotism, death and I wish we were out of danger of bigotry and Jesuitism.
The Jesuits I know who have died and all their lives were great teachers, they're the least remembered people.
I do not like the late resurrection of the Jesuits.... If ever any congregation of men could merit eternal perdition on earth, and in hell, according to these historians, though, like Pascal, true Catholics, it is this company of Loyolas.
After learning the language and culture of the Chinese people, these Jesuits began to establish contacts with the young intellectuals of the country.
Few passages of history are more striking than those which record the efforts of the earlier French Jesuits to convert the Indians.
The Jesuits have disseminated half a story, while burying the other half. They are engaged in a campaign of cover-up and spin that places all the blame on Jim.
It was not reason that besieged Troy it was not reason that sent forth the Saracen from the desert to conquer the world that inspired the crusades that instituted the monastic orders it was not reason that produced the Jesuits above all, it was not reason that created the French Revolution. Man is only great when he acts from the passions never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.
The Jesuits had learned that a Christian mission to China could never succeed if it were not in a position to show and convince the Chinese intelligentsia of the superiority of the European culture.