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Top 30 James Carroll Quotes (2025 Update)

James Carroll Quote: “Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions. – Joyce Carol Oates.”

1. “Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions. – Joyce Carol Oates.”

— James Carroll

James Carroll Quote: “Experience is a flow from event to consequence, with moral events defined by human choice.”

2. “Experience is a flow from event to consequence, with moral events defined by human choice.”

— James Carroll

James Carroll Quote: “For Christian faith, the death of God is not a question of his disappearance. On the contrary, it is one of the places where He is most fully present. Jesus is not Man standing in for God. He is a sign that God is incarnate in human frailty and futility.”

3. “For Christian faith, the death of God is not a question of his disappearance. On the contrary, it is one of the places where He is most fully present. Jesus is not Man standing in for God. He is a sign that God is incarnate in human frailty and futility.”

— James Carroll

James Carroll Quote: “God suffers with you!”

4. “God suffers with you!”

— James Carroll

James Carroll Quote: “The absence of Jesus is the mode of his presence.”

5. “The absence of Jesus is the mode of his presence.”

— James Carroll

James Carroll Quote: “Real generosity toward the future,” as Camus famously put it, “lies in giving all to the present.”

6. “Real generosity toward the future,” as Camus famously put it, “lies in giving all to the present.”

— James Carroll

James Carroll Quote: “There is no such thing as history undistorted. Decisive transformations of meaning occurred, and are occurring still.”

7. “There is no such thing as history undistorted. Decisive transformations of meaning occurred, and are occurring still.”

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James Carroll Quote: “The New Testament, that is, was made by the Church; the Church was not made by the New Testament. That is why, speaking generally, Catholics differ from Protestants in the importance given to the authority of the Bible on the one hand, and to the authority of the Church on the other. Therefore, Catholics more than Protestants would tend to say that the community has authority over its normative literature.”

8. “The New Testament, that is, was made by the Church; the Church was not made by the New Testament. That is why, speaking generally, Catholics differ from Protestants in the importance given to the authority of the Bible on the one hand, and to the authority of the Church on the other. Therefore, Catholics more than Protestants would tend to say that the community has authority over its normative literature.”

— James Carroll

James Carroll Quote: “The God who makes the promise keeps the promise.”

9. “The God who makes the promise keeps the promise.”

— James Carroll

James Carroll Quote: “The I AM of God, of Jesus, is the “I am” of every person, and it consists in every person being aware of herself or himself.”

10. “The I AM of God, of Jesus, is the “I am” of every person, and it consists in every person being aware of herself or himself.”

— James Carroll

James Carroll Quote: “Clericalism is the pyramid, a structure of domination that must be protected at all costs by everyone occupying a niche in it – which is why bishops and most priests so routinely shield the clerical abusers instead of their victims.”

11. “Clericalism is the pyramid, a structure of domination that must be protected at all costs by everyone occupying a niche in it – which is why bishops and most priests so routinely shield the clerical abusers instead of their victims.”

— James Carroll

James Carroll Quote: “The massive sexual dysfunction of the contemporary Catholic Church began with Augustine.”

12. “The massive sexual dysfunction of the contemporary Catholic Church began with Augustine.”

— James Carroll

James Carroll Quote: “Forgiveness as the response to the inevitability of failure. Suffering understood as part of life. Trust as the other side of anguish. A permanent thankfulness.”

13. “Forgiveness as the response to the inevitability of failure. Suffering understood as part of life. Trust as the other side of anguish. A permanent thankfulness.”

— James Carroll

James Carroll Quote: “Francis is at the mercy of an incoherent Catholic morality about all kinds of sexual expression, and he seems incapable of bringing the needed moral clarity and essential new structure of accountability. That incoherence in ethics and morality is itself essential to the malignant culture of clericalism that imprisons many, including the Pope.”

14. “Francis is at the mercy of an incoherent Catholic morality about all kinds of sexual expression, and he seems incapable of bringing the needed moral clarity and essential new structure of accountability. That incoherence in ethics and morality is itself essential to the malignant culture of clericalism that imprisons many, including the Pope.”

— James Carroll

James Carroll Quote: “Communion over loneliness. Death not an end, but a beginning. At home in the absolute – and absolutely unknown – future.”

15. “Communion over loneliness. Death not an end, but a beginning. At home in the absolute – and absolutely unknown – future.”

— James Carroll

James Carroll Quote: “Human tragedy, of its essence, consists in the denigration of what is in the name of what is to come.”

16. “Human tragedy, of its essence, consists in the denigration of what is in the name of what is to come.”

— James Carroll

James Carroll Quote: “A power structure that is accountable only to itself will always end by abusing the powerless. If exposed, it will ask, paternalistically, to be allowed to repair the damage on its own.”

17. “A power structure that is accountable only to itself will always end by abusing the powerless. If exposed, it will ask, paternalistically, to be allowed to repair the damage on its own.”

— James Carroll

James Carroll Quote: “It was when Francis repeatedly failed in his response to the unchecked current of accusation and revelation – not just regarding priests as predators, but especially with bishops as enablers, and with bishops and Cardinals as predators, too – that I was forced to undertake a deeper and more comprehensive reckoning.”

18. “It was when Francis repeatedly failed in his response to the unchecked current of accusation and revelation – not just regarding priests as predators, but especially with bishops as enablers, and with bishops and Cardinals as predators, too – that I was forced to undertake a deeper and more comprehensive reckoning.”

— James Carroll

James Carroll Quote: “To each one, the encounter with Jesus is unique, however it occurs. That no one possesses Jesus, or fully understands him, is why the movement toward Jesus can never be made alone.”

19. “To each one, the encounter with Jesus is unique, however it occurs. That no one possesses Jesus, or fully understands him, is why the movement toward Jesus can never be made alone.”

— James Carroll

James Carroll Quote: “The sweep of the hierarchy’s betrayals, in scope and depth, is staggeringly new. And to gauge the likelihood of that hierarchy’s facing the truth of what it has done and what it has become, consider this: The two contemporary maestros of denial, Pope Paul VI and Pope John Paul II, have, in the very years of the scandal they enabled, been named as saints of the Catholic Church.”

20. “The sweep of the hierarchy’s betrayals, in scope and depth, is staggeringly new. And to gauge the likelihood of that hierarchy’s facing the truth of what it has done and what it has become, consider this: The two contemporary maestros of denial, Pope Paul VI and Pope John Paul II, have, in the very years of the scandal they enabled, been named as saints of the Catholic Church.”

— James Carroll

James Carroll Quote: “The popes who succeeded John XXIII were in clericalism’s grip, which is why the reforms of his council didn’t have a chance.”

21. “The popes who succeeded John XXIII were in clericalism’s grip, which is why the reforms of his council didn’t have a chance.”

— James Carroll

James Carroll Quote: “Pope Francis routinely expresses his “shame and sorrow,” but he instinctively defends the accused; he denounces the clerical culture in which abuse has found its hospitable niche, but he does nothing to dismantle it. Indeed, in his instinctive protective responses to the corruption of clericalism, he embodies that culture, even while seeming to criticize it.”

22. “Pope Francis routinely expresses his “shame and sorrow,” but he instinctively defends the accused; he denounces the clerical culture in which abuse has found its hospitable niche, but he does nothing to dismantle it. Indeed, in his instinctive protective responses to the corruption of clericalism, he embodies that culture, even while seeming to criticize it.”

— James Carroll

James Carroll Quote: “At the most practical level, a reformed, enlightened, hopeful Catholic Church is essential to the thriving – even to the survival – of the human species.”

23. “At the most practical level, a reformed, enlightened, hopeful Catholic Church is essential to the thriving – even to the survival – of the human species.”

— James Carroll

James Carroll Quote: “Indeed, an ecumenical spirit extending to the worldly, to the flawed, to the politically compromised, and to the sexually stigmatized was what separated Jesus from his rigorously puritanical mentor.”

24. “Indeed, an ecumenical spirit extending to the worldly, to the flawed, to the politically compromised, and to the sexually stigmatized was what separated Jesus from his rigorously puritanical mentor.”

— James Carroll

James Carroll Quote: “Sexual morality, according to the Catholic Church, is all about denial of male restlessness and control of female agency. There is simply no place in this schema for a woman’s autonomy.”

25. “Sexual morality, according to the Catholic Church, is all about denial of male restlessness and control of female agency. There is simply no place in this schema for a woman’s autonomy.”

— James Carroll

James Carroll Quote: “Once converted, the former Anglicans are welcomed into the Roman Church as priests, even if they are married. So in that way, the rule of mandatory celibacy has indeed been lifted, if only for these self-acknowledged misogynists. That leaves the inferiority of women as the absolutely overriding Catholic moral principle. It is the keystone of clericalism.”

26. “Once converted, the former Anglicans are welcomed into the Roman Church as priests, even if they are married. So in that way, the rule of mandatory celibacy has indeed been lifted, if only for these self-acknowledged misogynists. That leaves the inferiority of women as the absolutely overriding Catholic moral principle. It is the keystone of clericalism.”

— James Carroll

James Carroll Quote: “In the age of the Me Too movement, at last the Roman Catholic priesthood – considered as a whole – must be understood, quite simply, as a male supremacist institution.”

27. “In the age of the Me Too movement, at last the Roman Catholic priesthood – considered as a whole – must be understood, quite simply, as a male supremacist institution.”

— James Carroll

James Carroll Quote: “Jesus was the only point. Imitation was the point.”

28. “Jesus was the only point. Imitation was the point.”

— James Carroll

James Carroll Quote: “The Pope’s critics among his fellow prelates have engaged in entry, rumormongering, leaks, and open defiance – a desperate rearguard effort aimed at weakening a Pope deemed insufficiently committed to the protection of clerical power.”

29. “The Pope’s critics among his fellow prelates have engaged in entry, rumormongering, leaks, and open defiance – a desperate rearguard effort aimed at weakening a Pope deemed insufficiently committed to the protection of clerical power.”

— James Carroll

James Carroll Quote: “The theological denigration of women was a major revision of the assumptions that had informed the Christian movement from the gospels forward. Jesus himself modeled an egalitarian respect toward women: In Christ, ’there is neither male nor female.”

30. “The theological denigration of women was a major revision of the assumptions that had informed the Christian movement from the gospels forward. Jesus himself modeled an egalitarian respect toward women: In Christ, ’there is neither male nor female.”

— James Carroll

James Carroll Quote: “Mindful imitation makes Christ actual.”

31. “Mindful imitation makes Christ actual.”

— James Carroll

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