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# Benjamin Zablocki

Benjamin David Zablocki (born January 19, 1941) is an American sociologist and professor of sociology at Rutgers University where he teaches sociology of religion and social psychology.

## Quotes

* Brainwashing is defined as an observable set of transactions between a charismatically-structured collectivity and an isolated agent of the collectivity with the goal of transforming the agent into a deployable agent. Brainwashing is thus a process of ideological resocialization carried out within a structure of charismatic authority.
** Thomas Robbins, ‎Benjamin David Zablocki (2001) Misunderstanding Cults: Searching for Objectivity in a Controversial Field. p. 183
* I am convinced, based on more than three decades of studying NRMs through participant-observation and through interviews with both members and ex-members, that these movements have unleashed social and psychological forces of truly awesome power. These forces have wreaked havoc in many lives - in both adults and in children. It is these social and psychological influence processes that the social scientist has both the right and the duty to try to understand, regardless of whether such understanding will ultimately prove helpful or harmful to the cause of religious liberty. … the real sociological issue ought not to be whether brainwashing ever occurs but rather whether it occurs frequently enough to be considered an important social problem.
** Benjamin Zablocki (1997) The Blacklisting of a Concept: The Strange History of the Brainwashing Conjecture in the Sociology of Religion. (online)
* Mind control is the process by which individual or collective freedom of choice and action is compromised by agents or agencies that modify or distort perception, motivation, affect, cognition and/or behavioral outcomes. It is neither magical nor mystical, but a process that involves a set of basic social psychological principles. … It seems to me that at the very heart of the controversy over the existence of mind control is a bias toward believing in the power of people to resist the power of situational forces, a belief in individual will power and faith to overcome all evil adversity. It is Jesus modeling resistance against the temptations of Satan, and not the vulnerability of Adam and Eve to deception. More recently, examples abound that challenge this person-power misattribution.
** Benjamin Zablocki (2002); As cited in: Herbert W Simons, PH.D., ‎Jean Jones (2011) Persuasion and Contemporary Culture. p. 343
# Bruce Wilshire

Bruce W. Wilshire (February 8, 1932 – January 1, 2013) was an American philosopher who taught in the philosophy department at Rutgers University, from which he retired as Professor Emeritus in 2009. Beginning as a specialist in William James, he became known for his work on philosophy and theater, his criticisms of analytic philosophy, and his interest in Native American philosophy.

## Quotes
### Fashionable Nihilism (2002)

* Once, Socrates was a sort of patron saint of philosophers. It was understood that philosophy was a way of questioning, musing, ruminating, living—a way of being a person.
** p. xi
* Philosophy is not exactly science, [analytic philosophers] think, but it must resemble science in its style and mood of detachment: its appearance of being without any particular person’s or any particular group’s biases.
** p. xii
* Philosophers conclude that they need no longer participate personally in what Socrates called “the tendance of the soul.”
** p. xii
* Could this reaction against the personal by [analytic] philosophers … be, at bottom, one of fear? … Are … bright people … blindly afraid of their own precarious identity and unspeakable vulnerability as particular bodily beings?
** p. xiii
* In this distancing, are aspects of our own reality as persons deeply concealed, and the concealment concealed? Are many professors of philosophy today afraid to reflect? I think so.
** p. xiii
* Philosophers who function within analytic traditions tend to reflect on the self in a way that unwittingly impoverishes and objectifies self.
** p. xiii
* Kierkegaard, William James, Thoreau, and others I admire are very close to Nietzsche in his condemnation of philosophers who will not or cannot reflect on their own persons: that is, wholly professionalized philosophers.
** p. xiv
* Not to know how one has become what one is, means one has a grossly inadequate idea of what one is.
** p. 4
* [According to John Locke] the enlightened philosopher is to accept a subordinate position: he must be, says Locke, an “underlaborer” to the empirical scientist.
** p. 4
* The Princeton graduate students pride themselves in never reading “anyone who takes philosophy personally or confuses philosophy with things that matter in their little lives.” But being ignorant, apparently, of how they (and their professors, presumably) have come to hold such a view, they have no idea of how it might be criticized, or who they are who hold it.
** p. 5
* [William] James observed that if one who desires self-knowledge takes exclusively a (supposedly) detached and dispassionate view of oneself, one has already prejudiced what one can be, and, of course, what one can know of oneself.
** p. 5
* … our countless addictions, distractions, dissipations of passion that might have served as the core of self.
** p. 7
# Leonid Feodorov

Leonid Ivanovich Feodorov (Russian: Леонидъ Ивановичъ Фёдоровъ) (1879–1935) was a bishop and Exarch for the Russian Catholic Church, in addition to being a survivor of the GULAG. After painstaking investigation, he was beatified by Pope John Paul II on June 27, 2001.

## Sourced

* When I feel overwhelmed by misfortune, the greatest joy that the Lord can give me is to go to the altar, to put my forehead against it (as on the day of my ordination to the priesthood), and to feel the presence of the only reality. Not only does calm return, but my body seems to be annihilated; the only true life begins, the life of that which is intangible."
** Fr. Paul Mailleux, S.J., "Exarch Leonid Feodorov, Bridgebuilder Between Rome and Moscow," page 166.
* I am not a Jacob wrestling with God, but a Job lying on his dung-hill. I have assimilated Western thought and its clarity, but, in fact, I am solidly rooted in the passive Eastern nature and remain rebellious to any action. The book, the cell, the presence at the altar and at lengthy church ceremonies, and above all the solitude and withdrawal from the world -- this is the atmosphere which suits me; it is there that I feel like a fish in the water. I cannot lead an active and contemplative life at the same time. You know how much I love the Jesuits, but their ideal (to unite contemplation with action) is not within my means.
** Fr. Paul Mailleux, "Exarch Leonid Feodorov," page 181.
*** In a letter to Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky.
* If the Soviet Government orders me to act against my conscience, I do not obey. As for teaching the Catechism, the Catholic Church holds that children must be taught their religion, no matter what the law says. Conscience is above the law. No law which is against the conscience can bind.
** Captain Francis McCullagh, "The Bolshevik Persecution of Christianity," Dutton and Company, 1924, page 192.
*** Adressing the court during his political show trial in 1923.
* My whole life has been based on two principles: the love of the Church to which I am united, and the love of my country, which I adore. If I do not care whether I am sentenced to ten years imprisonment or to be shot, it is not because I am a fanatic... Since I joined the Catholic Church my sole object has been to reconcile my country to that Church which I believe to be the One True Church.
** Captain Francis McCullagh, "The Bolshevik Persecution of Christianity," page 238.
*** Addressing the court shortly before being sentenced to ten years in the GULAG.
* The true messianism of the Russian Church is not what the Slavophiles have imagined, but it is the example of suffering. It is in this way that she shows that she is the continuation of Christ in this world.
** Fr. Paul Maileux, "Exarch Leonid Feodorov," page 204.
*** Addressing a friend and confidant who was imprisoned with him at Solovki prison camp.
# Volodymyr Firman

Volodymyr Firman (8 May 1976 –) is a prelate of the Ukrainian Catholic Church who serves as an auxiliary bishop of the Archeparchy of Ternopil–Zboriv.

## Quotes

* Everything we possess and have here, which we consider to be wealth, is not valuable because everything can be lost overnight and that it has its value and meaning for us only when there is true God's peace.
** “I ask for prayer that I may be a good minister to all of you”: Bishop Volodymyr Firman (27 August 2023) Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
# Michael William Fisher

Michael William Fisher (3 March 1958–) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who serves as the bishop of the Diocese of Buffalo.

## Quotes

* I think humility is certainly essential. When we lack humility, that leads to things like clericalism and presenting as someone who doesn't listen. I’m a relatively shy person. I think it's inherent in my family. But I realize I have to sometimes get out there and I need to speak and be in front of the public. I just hope that I can be as genuine as possible, that what you see is what you get. But humility, I think praying for humility, is something that we always need to do. Humility is what leads us into understanding that it’s not what we do, it’s what the Lord is doing in us and for us.
** In embattled Buffalo, bishop sees ‘instilling hope’ as his mission (10 June 2021)
# Jeffrey Michael Fleming

Jeffrey Michael Fleming (February 10, 1966 –) is an American prelate of the Catholic Church who serves as coadjutor bishop of the Diocese of Great Falls-Billings.

## Quotes

* With God there is always more! There is always room for more, and we have work to do. There is always room for those we have not yet invited inside and those not yet born. It is from this holy place that we are sent out into the world to be Christ to and for one another, Christ to the whole world. That is our mission; that is our identity.
** Coadjutor Bishop Jeffrey M. Fleming’s Homily (23 October 2022) St. Pius X Parish
# Robert Herman Flock

Robert Herman Flock (born November 4, 1956) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who serves as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Ignacio de Velasco, Bolivia.

## Quotes

* I do feel a joy in my heart, not just the fact of being a bishop, but the way that my ordination has been received by everyone: my friends from bygone days who are here, my colleagues from the Archdiocese of Santa Cruz, the people and clergy here in Cochabamba where I am an unknown quantity; everyone has been wonderfully welcoming and making their greatest effort to help me feel at home in this Church. My family that is here has brought me a real sense of joy.
** Monsignor Flock elevated to bishop in Bolivia
* I confess that it was personally a source of great joy when the revolution of the Pititas achieved its objective, as now a matter of great concern that the Movement to Socialism will return to power. It's not, as in sport, about my team winning or losing. I sincerely see the MAS as a great threat, not because it represents left against right – for me they are the same – but because it wants to absolutize itself with power against democracy and against the Kingdom of God, and therefore to the detriment of Bolivia and to the detriment of the Church.
# Oscar Jaime Florencio

Oscar Jaime Florencio (February 5, 1966–) is a prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who serves as the bishop of the Military Ordinariate of the Philippines.

## Quotes

* If we don't need that much, don't buy that many drugs. It is not just you who wants to live. We have thousands of fellow Filipinos testing positive for Covid each day. Give them a chance to get well by making the medicines they need available when they need them.
** Philippine bishop blasts medicine hoarders (11 January 2022)
* When we talk about the young, it is important to support any project that enhances their development. Military training is one example because it teaches them discipline, something that we need in the country.
** Philippine conscription plan gets bishop's backing (25 January 2022)
# Daniel E. Flores

Daniel Ernesto Flores (August 28, 1961 –) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.

## Quotes

* I've always been very happy as a priest and I expect to be very happy in just kind of getting to know people. I think one of the most important things a priest does is that he has an opportunity to spend time with people and I'm looking forward to that.
** Youngest bishop in the U.S. ready to “propose the mystery” of the Church to Detroit (November 29, 2006)
# Harry Joseph Flynn

Harry Joseph Flynn (May 2, 1933 – September 22, 2019) was an American prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the archbishop of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis.

## Quotes

* As you step away from the strong articulation of the teachings, you get into the pastoral practice of what do you do in some of these very difficult and challenging situations. Sometimes we don't come to the same conclusion about how to handle it.
** Archbishop speaks to Vatican officials about Rainbow Sash protests (14 December 2004) Catholic News Service
# Charles Henry Fowler

Charles Henry Fowler (August 11, 1837 – 1908) was a Canadian-American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1884.

## Quotes
### Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Quotes reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895).
* Religions which depend upon arguments are failures. A religion, to be aggressive, must be experimental; men must be something and do something by means of it, which would be otherwise impossible; then they become both rhetoric and logic — persuasion and proof.
** P. 137.
* The best teachers of humanity are the lives of great men.
** P. 217.
* A man may make his way across the Atlantic in a skiff, for all I know; but if you are intending to cross the sea, take my advice, and secure passage in a first-class steamer, and you will be more likely to get there. So it is with these heathen millions. I do not know but some of them may drift, and we shall find them in the city of God. But I do know that by giving them the gospel, by building up and supporting among them a Christian church, we shall greatly multiply their chances for heaven.
** P. 417.
* Remember, there are only a few model preachers. We have read of only one perfect Model, and He was crucified many centuries ago.
** P. 476.
* The selfish man cuts away the sand from under his own feet, he digs his own grave; and every time, from the beginning of the world until now, God Almighty pushes him into the grave and covers him up.
** P. 537.
* You are born supernaturally through faith, by the grace of God, into the kingdom of righteousness; but you are born a little babe, that is all; and if you make any progress from that point on, it must be by work, by sacrifice, by the practice of Christian virtues, by benevolence, by self-denial, by resisting the adversary, by making valiant war for God and against sin; and on no other basis, am I authorized in giving you a hope that you may come to manhood in Christ Jesus.
** P. 564.
# Cyrus David Foss

Cyrus David Foss (January 17, 1834 – January 29, 1910) was a prominent Methodist bishop in the latter 19th century, primarily serving in New York and New England.

## Quotes

* Christianity was the temple that was to be eternal, and on it, as unconscious builders, men were laboring in all the ages from the creation.
** Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 132.
* Underneath all the arches of Scripture history, throughout the whole grand temple of the Scriptures, these two voices ever echo, man is ruined, man is redeemed.
** Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 489.
* The hope of the nation and of Christendom, and of the lands called heathen, alike is to be found in the indoctrination of little children in the knowledge of God's truth; for the missionaries will tell you that the adult heathen population of to-day are to die heathen; the minister will tell you that the adult, virtually heathen population of Christian lands to-day are to die in that condition, unless God showers down altogether unprecedented grace — with only such occasional exceptions as confirm this general and terrible law. If this be so, the hope of Christianity is in childhood. Towards childhood must be directed the work of the sappers and miners of the church. Here is the weak point of the enemy's fortress. Here let the breach be made, and his topmost turret shall be laid low.
** Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 570.
# Giuseppe Franzelli

Giuseppe Franzelli (9 April 1942–) is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the bishop of the Diocese of Lira.

## Quotes

* In this tragedy I would like to underline a beautiful thing, in my opinion, and that is the Uganda's capacity to welcome.
** The Vatican News interview with the Bishop of Lira, Msgr. Franzelli. (26 June 2018)
* Africa is not only on the receiving end. Africa can give a lot to the rest of the world. We are called to work for this to happen.
** Ethiopia-Eritrea peace talks ‘providential’ (17 July 2018)
# Renzo Fratini

Renzo Fratini (25 April 1944–) is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church and diplomat of the Holy See.

## Quotes

* The Christian life really starts from an inner renewal, from a conversion: the return to God. I believe it is a good opportunity to rediscover the foundations of the fundamental choice of Christian life: live it every day in relationship with others and in a dimension of solidarity and openness to the world.
** Papal Nuncio: World Youth Day will transcend Spain’s economic woes (4 August 2011)
# Séamus Freeman

Séamus Freeman (23 February 1944 – 20 August 2022) was an Irish prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as the bishop of the Diocese of Ossory.

## Quotes

* As priests we give thanks to the Lord for our calling. It's always a tremendous joy when we are able to help others in need, in pain, in difficulty, those who are suffering. As priests we must always make ourselves available to the people we are called to serve. That's a quality that people in parishes very much appreciate. We must make ourselves available. We give thanks to God for the good we have achieved in our ministry and with His help, we thank him for the good we will continue to do, for His people, to whom we are called to serve.
** Homily of Bishop Seamus Freeman for Mass of Chrism in the Diocese of Ossory (24 March 2016)
# Gianfranco Gallone

Gianfranco Gallone (20 April 1963 –) is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church and a diplomat of the Holy See.

## Quotes

* We are all disciples of Jesus, we are urged not to consider ourselves the owners, dominators of the faith of others. We are servants for the sake of Jesus.
** President of the Bishops' Conference: "It is time Zambia became a fully-fledged missionary Church" (18 July 2019)
# Bernardin Gantin

Bernardin Gantin (8 May 1922 – 13 May 2008) was a Beninese prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the archbishop of the Archdiocese of Cotonou.

## Quotes

* Healthy inculturation can be of help. But one must never move away from the Magisterium of the Universal Church. And our masses must not be too particular. They must not be understood only by us Africans. Any Catholic who participates in a religious function of ours must be able to recognize it, must be able to feel at home. Catholicism is not Protestantism.
** My Africa blessed by the Lord (2006) 30 Days
# Gilbert Garcera

Gilbert Armea Garcera (February 2, 1959–) is a Fillipino prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who serves as the Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Lipa.

## Quotes

* I want to reflect on one question: What are you doing to shape the minds and consciences of our young people today.
** Philippine archbishop goes undercover to check on parishes (24 May 2017)
* Aside from prayers, we are appealing for donations in cash or in-kind for the archdiocese’s ongoing relief operations.
** Philippine archbishop urges prayers, aid amid volcano eruption (13 January 2020)
* Faith is service to our fellows. You receive faith, you share faith. Aside from water and food that the government provides, what the Church can also give is strengthening of faith.
** Philippine prelate warns against volcano eruption 'fake news' (16 January 2020)
# Job Getcha

Job of Pisidia (born Ihor Wladimir Getcha; 31 January 1974 –) is an Eastern Orthodox Metropolitan of the Ecumenical Patriarchate who is the Permanent Representative of the Ecumenical Patriarchate to the World Council of Churches and the Dean of the Institute for Orthodox Theology Higher Studies at Chambésy, Switzerland. He was the Archbishop of Telmessos and was elected on July 22, 2022, as the new metropolitan of Pisidia.

## Quotes

* Christ gives me not only a meaning, not only an orientation to my life, but also gives me hope. For us orthodox, the resurrection is connected to the crucifixion. The cross and the empty tomb are not separable — it's like two faces of a coin. And therefore when we encounter the risen one, we actually encounter the crucified one.
** Archbishop Job Getcha Easter Prime Time (2021) JC2033
# Michael Gielen (bishop)

Michael Andrew Gielen (2 June 1971–) is a New Zealand Catholic bishop.

## Quotes

* If anything, I am feeling called to pray for joy, a sense of hope and joy in my ministry, because I know that it is going to be difficult, and I know there are going to be many challenges; I know the Church is facing great challenges at present, from many different avenues and what we don’t need is to become mired in, in a sense, the difficulties and the challenges that lie ahead. We are the people of the Resurrection, we are people of hope, and I want that to be a shining light and I realise that, at times, that will be difficult, but that is my prayer, that I can be that for people.
** ‘My first priority is supporting Bishop Pat’ (January 28, 2020)
# José María Gil Tamayo

José María Gil Tamayo (5 June 1957 –) is a Spanish prelate of the Catholic Church who serves as the archbishop of the Archdiocese of Granada.

## Quotes

* The presence of contemplatives is a reminder of the primacy of God: that God is the most important thing. We need these reminders of God's presence. We need to vindicate this presence of the contemplative life, of monks and nuns. Without God, you have nothing. By reminding us of this truth, contemplatives not only become a way of raising a silent cry to God for our world, for people, they also remind us that God loves us, forgives us, has saved us in his Son Jesus Christ, embraces us, and brings us to wholeness.
** Entrust your deceased loved ones to the prayers of Teresa of Avila’s monastery (2021) Aleteia
# Nicola Girasoli

Nicola Girasoli (21 July 1957–) is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church.

## Quotes

* The societies are a providential gift to the Church. Let us pray to the Lord of the Mission to help you come out with a clear understanding and plan of our great task of evangelization,
** “You should strive to venture into activities that will help to awaken, enliven and support the missionary efforts of the Church,” Apostolic Nuncio tells the PMS National Assembly in Zambia (26 January 2009) Fides News Agecny
* Priests must take into consideration the main message of Pope Francis, in which he asks to give life to a Church with a priestly path of holiness and not of perfection.
** with a priestly way of holiness": the Apostolic Nuncio during his visit to Cuzco (12 April 2018) Fides News Agecny