Don Colacho’s Aphorisms

Doubts do not fade one by one: they disappear in a flash of light. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 447

What is difficult is not to believe or to doubt—at any time—but to measure the exact proportion of our authentic faith or our authentic doub...

Man’s moment of greatest lucidity is when he doubts his doubt. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 363

In the ocean of faith one fishes with a net of doubts. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 298

Each person places his incredulity in a different place. Mine gathers where nobody doubts. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 29...

Nothing is more difficult than to doubt our victims’ guilt. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 261

The believer knows how to doubt; the unbeliever does not know how to believe. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 110

The unbeliever is dumbfounded that his arguments do not alarm the Catholic, forgetting that the Catholic is a vanquished unbeliever. His ob...

Thinking is often reduced to inventing reasons to doubt the obvious. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 29