Don Colacho’s Aphorisms

Concerning himself intensely with his neighbor’s condition allows the Christian to dissimulate to himself his doubts about the divinity of C...

The Gospels and the Communist Manifesto are on the wane; the world’s future lies in the power of Coca-Cola and pornography. Escolios a un Te...

Where Christianity disappears, greed, envy, and lust invent a thousand ideologies to justify themselves. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Sele...

The progressive Christian’s error lies in believing that Christianity’s perennial polemic against the rich is an implicit defense of sociali...

Nothing upsets the unbeliever as much as defenses of Christianity based on intellectual skepticism and internal experience. Escolios a un Te...

The modern clergy believe they can bring man closer to Christ by insisting on Christ’s humanity. Thus forgetting that we do not trust in Chr...

Why not imagine the possibility, after several centuries of Soviet hegemony, of the conversion of a new Constantine? Escolios a un Texto Imp...

The Christian knows with certainty what his personal behavior should be, but he can never state for certain that he is not making a mistake ...

The true Christian should not resign himself to the inevitable: he should trust in the impertinence of a repeated prayer. Escolios a un Text...

The Christian does not pretend that the problems posed by religion have been solved; instead, he transcends them. Escolios a un Texto Implíc...

When it comes to knowledge of man, there is no Christian (provided he is not a progressive Christian) whom anybody has anything to teach. Es...

The Church’s function is not to adapt Christianity to the world, nor even to adapt the world to Christianity; her function is to maintain a ...

What concerns the Christ of the Gospels is not the economic situation of the poor man, but the moral condition of the rich man. Escolios a u...

Even though they are full of threats, I fail to see anything in the Gospels but promises. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 450

After experiencing what an age practically without religion consists of, Christianity is learning to write the history of paganism with resp...

Man is important only if it is true that a God has died for him. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 442

Those who replace the “letter” of Christianity with its “spirit” generally turn it into a load of socio-economic nonsense. Escolios a un Tex...

The modern clergy declare that Christianity seeks to solve earthly problems—thereby confusing it with utopia. Escolios a un Texto Implícito:...

Souls that Christianity does not prune never mature. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 435

To want Christianity not to make absurd demands is to ask it to renounce the demands that move our heart. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Sel...