Absurdity

There is nothing so absurd or incredible that it has not been asserted by one philosopher or another [Descartes]

Destroying the Church

Napoleon said to Cardinal Consalvi that he would destroy the Catholic Church; Cardinal Consalvi laughed at him and responded "Sire, if immoral priests, and bad popes, and countless sinners in the church have not been able to destroy Her from within...you surely will not destroy Her from without".

Pakistan

Most countries have armies. Pakistan is often said to be an army that has a country.

Instant Christianity

It is hardly a matter of wonder that the country that gave the world instant tea and instant coffee should be the one to give it instant Christianity.

USCCB

The misinterpretation found in a July 2002 newsletter from the USCCB’s own liturgy committee, which stated that “kneeling is not a licit posture.” It is now quite clear that kneeling to receive Communion is a licit posture and not one of disobedience, as some had previously thought.

GKC on Macaulay

He was the son of one of the first "friends of the negro," whose honest industry and philanthropy were darkened by a religion of sombre smugness, which almost makes one fancy they loved the negro for his colour, and would have turned away
from red or yellow men as needlessly gaudy.

GKC on the romantics

There had been about these great poets a young and splendid sterility.