"Oratorian" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... defended, to a certain extent, by Father Simon, the oratorian, the father of the modern biblical school. Against both Simon and Grotius, Bossuet wielded his powerful lance,—in his "Pastoral Instruction on the Works of Father Simon," and his "Dissertations upon Grotius." In these works he says ...
— The Life of Hugo Grotius • Charles Butler
... Roman Catholicism. The universe exists, said the father: somebody must have made it. If that somebody exists, said I, somebody must have made him. I grant that for the sake of argument, said the Oratorian. I grant you a maker of God. I grant you a maker of the maker of God. I grant you as long a line of makers as you please; but an infinity of makers is unthinkable and extravagant: it is no harder to believe in number one than in number fifty thousand or ...
— Back to Methuselah • George Bernard Shaw |
