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I want a laitywho know their creed so well, that they can give an account of it, who know so much of history that they can defend it.
Confession is an act of honesty and courage - an act of entrusting ourselves, beyond sin, to the mercy of a loving and forgiving God.
The Cross to me is certain salvation. The Cross is that which I ever adore. The Cross of the Lord is with me. The Cross is my refuge.
It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us.
The key question for the future of Europe is whether these faiths will live together in peace or whether they will tear Europe apart.
It will be easier for you to bring him around to where you want him more by gentleness and patience than by being too uncompromising.
You say you experience great difficulty in the mission. Alas! Monsieur, there is no lot in life where there is nothing to be endured.
The rose is without 'why'; it blooms simply because it blooms. It pays no attention to itself, nor does it ask whether anyone sees it.
I have learned to prize holy ignorance more highly than religious certainty and to seek companions who have arrived at the same place.
Because success is such a weasel word anyway, it's such a horribly American word, and it's such a vamp and, I think it's a death trap.
I think that the proclamation of the Gospel is sometimes nearer to an atheistic point of view than to traditional religious attitudes.
Theology is reflection, a critical attitude. The commitment of love, of service, comes first. Theology follows; it is the second step.
I'm not saying goodbye to life because I'm a misanthropist or disdain this life, but because, for other reasons, it's time to move on.
My hope is that the description of God's love in my life will give you the freedom and the courage to discover... God's love in yours.
[E]ven if the whole world should rise up to destroy us, nothing will happen except that God, in whom we have put our hope, will allow.
My poetry is not lyric. The epigrams are lyric because they come from my youthful period of lyricism, but my other poetry is not lyric.
The Church does not dictate the policies of the nation. The Church proclaims the truth of God to which all these policies must conform.
When you have loved deeply, that love can grow even stronger after the death of the person you love. That is the core message of Jesus.
The difference between rich and poor is not that the rich sin is more than the poor, that the rich find it easier to call sin a virtue.
Satan is inconsistent. He persuades a man not to go to a synagogue on a cold morning; yet when the man does go, he follows him into it.
Jesus has prepared not just one Host, but one for everyday of our life. The Hosts for us are ready. Let us not forfeit even one of them
A man shows himself a true disciple of Christ by carrying the cross in his turn every day in the activity that he is called to perform.
There is no need to be dismayed if love sometimes follows torturous ways. Grace has the power to make straight the paths of human love.
Abortion, euthanasia, human cloning, for example, risk reducing the human person to a mere object: life and death to order, as it were!
The test of a man's conversion is whether he has enough Christianity to get it to other people. If he hasn't, there is something wrong.
O how unspeakable is this Sacrament which sets our affections ablaze with charity. ... It is the fulfillment of Christ's Mystical Body.
The angels would become incarnate if they could, so that they might come to earth to imitate the example and virtues of the Son of God!
I think today the church faces a very real challenge in not repeating the errors of the past, in sort of a stand off, a fear of science.
In Los Angeles, the gang capital of the world, we have 1,100 gangs and 120,000 gang members so it is a daunting, complex social dilemma.
My church is in the detention facilities where I preside and celebrate the Eucharist. To me that's the church. That's the people of God.
The wrong idea has taken root in the world. And the idea is this: there just might be lives out there that matter less than other lives.
God doesn't give us just enough. God gives us more than enough: more bread and fish than we can eat, more love than we dared to ask for.
...the word that seems best to summarize the desire of the human heart is 'communion.' ...wherever we look it is communion that we seek.
By afflictions God is spoiling us of what otherwise might have spoiled us. When he makes the world too hot for us to hold, we let it go.
Our job as conscious humans is to bring the beauty and goodness of everything to full consciousness, to full delight, to full awareness.
I cannot go on.... All that I have written seems to me like so much straw compared to what I have seen and what has been revealed to me.
The servants of God...whether provoked by word or work, by keeping themselves tranquil and peaceful, evince a perfect nobleness of soul.
O saving Victim, opening wide The gate of heaven to man below, Our foes press on from every side, Thine aid supply, Thy strength bestow.
The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in His divinity, assumed our nature, so that He, made man, might make men gods.
Experience teaches that what is feasible at the beginning is sometimes harmful as things go on, or subject to troublesome inconveniences
Three can do more than ten when Our Lord puts His hand to things, and He always does so when He takes away the means of doing otherwise.
A monk asks:Is there anything more miraculous than the wonders of nature?The master answers:Yes, your awareness of the wonders of nature.
I don't miss the ministry, because I'm completely engaged in it. In terms of parish ministry, I miss the intimacy with a group of people.
Like a lover who spends all his time thinking of his distant love, God has been thinking of me since before I was born, for all eternity.
I have always felt that if I am very personal and connected with what I myself am living, my writing will transcend ecclesial boundaries.
We are the people of life, because God, in His unconditional love, has given us the Gospel of Life, and we are called to act accordingly.
I encourage Christians regularly to visit Christ present in the Blessed Sacrament, for we are all called to abide in the presence of God.
Prayer gives us light by which to see and to judge from God's perspective and from eternity. That is why you must not give up on praying!
Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the community.
Maybe if we can find time to hug and cherish our families and the people around us, child suicide or college suicide wouldn't be rampant.