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Top 20 Ronald Knox Quotes (2025 Update)

Ronald Knox Quote: “The study of comparative religions is the best way to become comparatively religious.”

1. “The study of comparative religions is the best way to become comparatively religious.”

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Ronald Knox Quote: “Always tell the truth, and people will never believe you.”

2. “Always tell the truth, and people will never believe you.”

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Ronald Knox Quote: “A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.”

3. “A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.”

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Ronald Knox Quote: “It is so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it.”

4. “It is so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it.”

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Ronald Knox Quote: “The prevailing attitude of the speakers was one of heavy disagreement with a number of things which the reader had not said.”

5. “The prevailing attitude of the speakers was one of heavy disagreement with a number of things which the reader had not said.”

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Ronald Knox Quote: “He who travels in the Barque of Peter had better not look too closely into the engine room.”

6. “He who travels in the Barque of Peter had better not look too closely into the engine room.”

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Ronald Knox Quote: “O God, for as much as without Thee We are not enabled to doubt Thee, Help us all by Thy grace To convince the whole race It knows nothing whatever about Thee.”

7. “O God, for as much as without Thee We are not enabled to doubt Thee, Help us all by Thy grace To convince the whole race It knows nothing whatever about Thee.”

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Ronald Knox Quote: “Long before I had ever seen a ritualistic service I became a Ritualist.”

8. “Long before I had ever seen a ritualistic service I became a Ritualist.”

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Ronald Knox Quote: “Only those of us, I think, who were born under Queen Victoria know what it feels like to assume, without questioning, that England is permanently top nation, that foreigners do not matter, and that if the worst comes to the worst, Lord Salisbury will send a gunboat.”

9. “Only those of us, I think, who were born under Queen Victoria know what it feels like to assume, without questioning, that England is permanently top nation, that foreigners do not matter, and that if the worst comes to the worst, Lord Salisbury will send a gunboat.”

— Ronald Knox

Ronald Knox Quote: “Only man had dignity; only man, therefore, can be funny.”

10. “Only man had dignity; only man, therefore, can be funny.”

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Ronald Knox Quote: “The great argument used now against any theological proposition is not, that it is untrue, or unthinkable, or unedifying, or unscriptural, or unorthodox, but simply, that the modern mind cannot accept it.”

11. “The great argument used now against any theological proposition is not, that it is untrue, or unthinkable, or unedifying, or unscriptural, or unorthodox, but simply, that the modern mind cannot accept it.”

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Ronald Knox Quote: “It doesn’t do to say that heresy produces the development of doctrine, because that annoys the theologians. But it is true to say that as a matter of history the development of doctrine has been largely a reaction on the Church’s part to the attacks of heresy.”

12. “It doesn’t do to say that heresy produces the development of doctrine, because that annoys the theologians. But it is true to say that as a matter of history the development of doctrine has been largely a reaction on the Church’s part to the attacks of heresy.”

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Ronald Knox Quote: “If you have a sloppy religion you get a sloppy atheism.”

13. “If you have a sloppy religion you get a sloppy atheism.”

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Ronald Knox Quote: “The hall-mark of American humour is its pose of illiteracy.”

14. “The hall-mark of American humour is its pose of illiteracy.”

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Ronald Knox Quote: “It is an infinitely small point, but does the abandonment, total or partial, of the clerical garb by some modern clergymen really make the laity feel more at home with them?”

15. “It is an infinitely small point, but does the abandonment, total or partial, of the clerical garb by some modern clergymen really make the laity feel more at home with them?”

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Ronald Knox Quote: “It appears, then, that the two processes are going on side by side, the decline of Church membership and the decline of dogma; the evacuation of the pew and the jettisoning of cargo from the pulpit.”

16. “It appears, then, that the two processes are going on side by side, the decline of Church membership and the decline of dogma; the evacuation of the pew and the jettisoning of cargo from the pulpit.”

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Ronald Knox Quote: “A rush age cannot be a reflective age.”

17. “A rush age cannot be a reflective age.”

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Ronald Knox Quote: “No preacher would deliberately judge the credibility of his message by the credulity of his audience. But the prevalent irreligion of the age does exercise a continual unconscious pressure upon the pulpit; it makes preachers hesitate to affirm doctrines whose affirmation would be unpopular. And a doctrine which has ceased to be affirmed is doomed, like a disused organ, to atrophy. That.”

18. “No preacher would deliberately judge the credibility of his message by the credulity of his audience. But the prevalent irreligion of the age does exercise a continual unconscious pressure upon the pulpit; it makes preachers hesitate to affirm doctrines whose affirmation would be unpopular. And a doctrine which has ceased to be affirmed is doomed, like a disused organ, to atrophy. That.”

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Ronald Knox Quote: “I have suggested above, the pilots of our storm-tossed denominations have lost no opportunity of lightening ship by jettisoning every point of doctrine that seemed questionable, and therefore unessential; hell has been abolished, and sin very nearly; the Old Testament is never alluded to but with a torrent of disclaimers, and miracle with an apologetic grimace.”

19. “I have suggested above, the pilots of our storm-tossed denominations have lost no opportunity of lightening ship by jettisoning every point of doctrine that seemed questionable, and therefore unessential; hell has been abolished, and sin very nearly; the Old Testament is never alluded to but with a torrent of disclaimers, and miracle with an apologetic grimace.”

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Ronald Knox Quote: “The world knows that Catholics have a high standard of purity. But the world is not going to be impressed unless it is assured that Catholics keep it.”

20. “The world knows that Catholics have a high standard of purity. But the world is not going to be impressed unless it is assured that Catholics keep it.”

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Ronald Knox Quote: “The motor-car, in brining us all closer together, by making it easy to have luncheon two counties away, has driven us all further apart, by making it unnecessary for us to know the people in the next bungalow. And so, once again, we have to thank civilization for nothing.”

21. “The motor-car, in brining us all closer together, by making it easy to have luncheon two counties away, has driven us all further apart, by making it unnecessary for us to know the people in the next bungalow. And so, once again, we have to thank civilization for nothing.”

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Ronald Knox Quote: “If I have a public, this book, I fear, will be a severe test of its patience.”

22. “If I have a public, this book, I fear, will be a severe test of its patience.”

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Ronald Knox Quote: “The study of history shows you a fairly steady advance in material comforts, in scientific knowledge, and so on; but to determine whether man is happier in once century than in another is a fool’s task.”

23. “The study of history shows you a fairly steady advance in material comforts, in scientific knowledge, and so on; but to determine whether man is happier in once century than in another is a fool’s task.”

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