Questions tagged [reference-request]
Use this tag to ask for help to find the source of a quote, or to find a works by Christian scholars and authors on particular topics. Do not use this tag to ask for Bible verses on a topic.
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Saint Quotes on Holy Obedience to Overcome Satan
I have read at various times in the past regarding the devil's ability to pretend even humility, but his utter inability to feign obedience.
Recently, I have tried to find some quotes from Catholic ...
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On the Catholic Doctrine Alluded to in the Trial of St. Joan of Arc
From the Wikipedia article Trial of Joan of Arc:
Several questions of a theological nature followed, including this one:
Question: Do you know whether or not you are in God's grace?
Joan: If I am not,...
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Where can I find the source of "I perish today not because of the crime I committed, but because of the pardon I did not accept"?
From a sermon illustration: That quote was the last words of a young man in southern USA (18th century), who was sentenced to be hung for a crime, whose family had interceded with the governor. The ...
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On a Quote of St. Augustine Pertaining to Education
Education is the food of youth, the delight of old age, the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity, and the provocation to grace in the soul.
Does anyone know in which of his ...
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Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich's Prophecy on the Two Popes
I would like to know the source (a book, I presume) that speaks about Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich's "Prophecy of the two popes.''
Every online site that I recall, which speaks about it, has ...
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A Quote of Ven. Leo Dupont on Never Making Peace with One's Sins
I am trying to find a reference which contains an actual quote from Ven. Leo Dupont, which, as I recollect, can be paraphrased as "... but I have never made peace with my sins."
Is anyone ...
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Did St. Augustine warn us about interpreting the Bible in a way which harms science?
Yesterday I came across a quote that was associated with St. Augustine of Hippo which shocked me and I was wondering if this is a real quote by St. Augustine or is it another fake quotation by him? It'...
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Quote source for St. Leopold Mandić on Continual Prayer
In many places, here for example, I have seen (pretty much verbatim):
Father Leopold often said that whatever we do on earth, we should do it in the presence of God, then our whole life will be a ...
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Looking for the Context Surrounding This St. Robert Bellarmine Quote
This quotation attributed to St. Robert Bellarmine:
"It is granted to few to recognize the true Church amid the darkness of so many schisms and heresies, and to fewer still so to love the truth ...
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On a Quote of Bl. Jerzy Popiełuszko---"an Idea Capable of Life..."
A while back, I was reading a book (I don't remember the title) on the life of Polish martyr, Blessed Jerzy Popiełuszko; and I am now trying to recollect a quote, I think may have been from it, which ...
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What lost bible commentary did St. Thomas Aquinas want more than an entire kingdom?
I've heard it claimed that St. Thomas Aquinas desired to obtain a manuscript of a biblical commentary (by St. John Chrysostom?) more than he desired to posses an entire kingdom. What is the source of ...
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Looking for Complete Online Collection of the Sermons of German Priest, Fr. Franz Hunolt, S.J
From Wikipedia:
Hunolt's idea was to treat the entire field of morals in his sermons thoroughly and completely. Each of the six volumes contains seventy-two sermons, and the various divisions in each ...
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Searching for Extended English Language Bibles
There are Luther (German) Bible to English parallels out there, however, the Luther Bible includes the Apocryphal texts and the English parallels do not. What I want to know is if there are any ...
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Looking for a Complete, Preferably English (Latin OK), Public Domain Translation of Peter Lombard's "Four Books of Sentences"
I am looking for a public domain English translation of all four volumes of Perter Lombard's The Sentences---"one of the least read of the world’s great books".
I am, however, not sure that ...
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The matter of Pope Benedictus XVI and Nazism?
I am here trying to find sources about Pope Benedictus XVI and his history with Nazism. I don't really have a question, but I thought this would be a great place to find resources on this subject from ...
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St. Athanasius on Papacy?
What did St. Athanasius believe about the Papacy and are there any special mentions of the bishop of Rome in his writings?
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What is the earliest source containing the 'Stabat Mater' melody from the 1961 Liber Usualis?
I would like to find the earliest source containing the Stabat Mater melody on page 1634V from The Liber Usualis, Solesmes, 1961 edition:
If the earliest source is not known, I would like a source ...
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Looking for a Digital Copy of Any Handwritten Sermon of St. John Vianney
I am looking for a digital copy of any personally handwritten sermon of St. John Vianney.
From what I have read, I am under the impression that 80 or so are extant, but I have not been able to locate ...
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What is the earliest source containing the music for Adoro te devote?
Can someone point me to the earliest source that contains the melody for Adoro te devote? I've checked on the Cantus Index, as well as MMMO database and have not been able to find anything on this ...
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Where did St. Thomas Aquinas say Mary approached the borders of the Hypostatic Union?
Where did St. Thomas Aquinas say Mary approached the borders/fringes of the divinity or Hypostatic Union?
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On a Famous Quote of Ven. Fulton Sheen Pertaining to the Laity
I have been trying to find the original source and transcript containing the following famous quote of Ven. Fulton J. Sheen on the laity:
Who’s going to save our Church? It’s not our bishops, it’s ...
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Looking for works pointing to Christianity as an alternative to human sacrifice
I'm curious if there is any significant scholarly research or works regarding a theory that a key driver of the spread of Christianity was to replace human and animal sacrifice from religious ...
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Blessed Solanus Casey---Prophecy Regarding Disappearance of Large Portions of the United States Due to Flooding?
Some number of years ago, I recall having seen (I am sure it was on television and I believe it was in the 1990s) a documentary (I would like to say it was a show called "Unsolved Mysteries,"...
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The Curé of Ars on Dancing
I am looking for the exact quote (French O.K.) and source of a quote from St. John Vianney, which I vaguely recall is:
A dancer leaves their Guardian Angel at the door, and soon there are as many ...
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What is the source of Pascal's quotation on staying home peacefully?
Pascal wrote in Pensées S168/L136:
all of man's unhappiness arises from one thing alone, that he does not know how to remain at rest in a room. A man that has enough to live, if he knew how to remain ...
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Where did Aquinas find this gloss?
The following passage occurs in Aquinas's Summa Theologica (Supp 91.3):
A gloss on Isaiah 30:26, "The light of the moon shall be as the light
of the sun," says: "All things made for ...
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Martin Luther on the salvation of Christian Soldiers?
I found this quote in the book Martin Luther: Rebel in an Age of Upheaval by Prof. Heinz Schilling.
He made a promise of salvation to Christian soldiers that is
reminiscent of the fundamentalist ...
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Are there other Christian authors besides WLC who believe that all Christians have access to a direct, self-authenticating experience of God?
My question is motivated by the following excerpt from William Lane Craig's Reasonable Faith article The Witness of the Holy Spirit:
Plantinga's model involves crucially what is usually called the ...
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What are Christian apologetics refutations of the objections posited by the site "Why Won't God Heal Amputees?"?
The site: https://whywontgodhealamputees.com/
Relevant quotes:
Is God real, or is he imaginary?
Is God real, or is he imaginary? It is one of the most important questions you can ask yourself.
If God ...
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Has any Christian philosopher ever argued that naturalism can be shown to be false?
From Wikipedia:
In philosophy, naturalism is the idea or belief that only natural laws and forces (as opposed to supernatural ones) operate in the universe.[1]
Naturalism is not so much a special ...
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General, albeit serious and well written reference for an introduction to Protestantism
I'd like to have some references for books to get a grasp of Protestantism: history, development, theology, philosophy, dogmas, rituals etc, among its diverse branches. Preferably from authors not ...
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Is there a name for a stronger version of Pascal's Wager in which one wagers that continuationism is true?
Pascal's Wager frames the discussion in terms of the possible benefits and costs of betting that God does or does not exist. In this sense, if one bets that God exists and He actually does, the reward ...
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Where did St. Catherine of Siena say "Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring."?
Where did St. Catherine of Siena say "Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring."?
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Which saint said a spiritual director should give his female directee books to read rather than meeting with her too frequently?
Which saint said a spiritual director should give his female directee books to read rather than meeting with her too frequently?
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Who said that the smallest spiritual progress of a religious merits more than that of a thousand laymen?
Who said that the smallest spiritual progress of a religious merits more than that of a thousand laymen?
I seem to remember it was by or about St. Teresa of Ávila.
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Did Aquinas believe that church bells ward off bad weather?
An 1880 issue of Popular Science reports that, in the opinion of Thomas Aquinas,
church-bells, provided that they have been duly consecrated and
baptized ... repel the demons and avert storm and ...
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History of the formation of the Biblical canon. Searching for accessible bibliographical references
I am interested in finding bibliographical references narrating the formation of the Biblical canon in the first 5 centuries of the Christian era that are:
Academic books or articles written by ...
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Where did St. Catherine of Siena say: “Preach the Truth as if you had a million voices. It is silence that kills the world.”?
Where did St. Catherine of Siena say: “Preach the Truth as if you had a million voices. It is silence that kills the world.”?
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Have any Protestant Biologists demonstrated through their own research that Evolution is untenable?
Q: Have any Protestant Biologists who don’t believe in evolution posted real research papers showing how evolution is not likely or possible?
I think I heard a famous atheist say creation and ...
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What is Thomas Aquinas's "Dec. præc."?
The Catechism of the Catholic Church (par. 1955), cites "St. Thomas Aquinas, Dec. præc. I." What is the English (or even the Latin) name of this work "Dec. præc."?
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Who said: "God is not outdone in generosity?"
Who said: "God is not outdone in generosity?" Is it a biblical verse, or did some famous Christian say it?
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What is the process of deposing an Orthodox Patriarch as head of their particular Orthodox Church?
What is the process of deposing an Orthodox Patriarch as head of their particular Orthodox Church?
After posting this question (Does the Russian Orthodox Church actively support Putin and his war in ...
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Who said, “The exegesis favors the Calvinist”?
I’m trying to find an obscure quote from a particular theologian who in his commentary on a particular verse of Scripture wrote something along the lines of the following:
“The exegesis favors the ...
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Christian scholars who have investigated and published on miracles?
I'm mostly familiar with the work of Dr. Craig Keener (Wikipedia, personal website), who has done extensive research on modern miracle accounts. See for example:
Miracles: The Credibility of the New ...
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Where can I find the source of Augustine's "Disturbers are to be rebuked" quote?
There is a fairly famous quote that begins "Disturbers are to be rebuked, the low-spirited to be encouraged, the infirm to be supported, objectors confuted..." It is usually attributed to ...
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On the Papal Approbation of Gregory XVI Regarding the Writings of St. Alphonsus Liguori
I have extracted the following from https://www.goodcatholicbooks.org/alphonsus/alphonsus-facts.html
(Papal approval) ``No ecclesiastical writer has ever received more direct, positive and formal ...
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Author of the "Imperfect Work" and Where to Find a Copy of It
In the writings of St. Alphonsus Liguori, e.g., Dignity and Duties of the Priest, he often makes mention of the author of the "Imperfect Work" without saying who this author is.
I suspect ...
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Harmony of the Gospels (earlier versions)
Following is the introduction to A Harmony of the Gospels, by A.T. Robertson. Does anyone know the titles/authors/publication dates of the previous "old plan" harmonies? Augustine wrote a ...
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Most complete biblical genealogical chart?
Dutripon, Bibliorum Sacrorum Concordantiæ pp. v-xii gives a chronological table divided into six ages, numbered by years of the world (anno mundi) and years before Jesus Christ (ante J. Ch.). He says ...
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What do the Saints say about "Talking about your self"?
I would very much like to become more humble, but I think that starts with humble speech and conduct (what comes out of me is "unhumbling me"). My wife read something yesterday that made me ...
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