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Let us do our duty well; let us go straight to God; let us work to become very humble, very patient, very mortified, and very charitable.
Search for the perfect church if you will; when you find it, join it, and realize that on that day it becomes something less than perfect.
I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion.
I don't know a more irreligious attitude, one more utterly bankrupt of any human content, than one which permits childred to be destroyed.
Patience asks us to live the moment to the fullest, to be completely present to the moment, to taste the here and now, to be where we are.
The pain that comes from deep love makes your love more fruitful. It is like a plow that breaks the ground to allow the seed to take root.
Mel Gibson is a tremendously talented creative individual who, unfortunately, is also a conflicted personality. He himself would say that.
Our future on this planet, exposed as it is to nuclear annihilation, depends one one single factor: humanity must make a moral about-face.
Jesus himself has shown us by his own example that prayer and fasting are the first and most effective weapons against the forces of evil.
every time God forgives us, God is saying that God's own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with us.
I answer that, Even, as in the blessed in heaven there will be most perfect charity, so in the damned there will be the most perfect hate.
As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are protecting God.
The real problem has far less to do with what is really out there than it does with our resistance to finding out what is really out there.
Protestants do not very often disagree with what Catholics believe, but they do very often disagree with what they think Catholics believe.
Reactive and proactive policing are both necessary. Still, we need to lower expectations that such efforts can ever be responsive to crime.
Community means that people come together around the table, not just to feed their bodies, but to feed their minds and their relationships.
Once you are in communion with God, you have the eyes to see and the ears to hear other people in whom God has also found a dwelling place.
The great challenge is to discover that we are truly invited to participate in the divine life of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.
Love of Christ does not distract us from interest in others, but rather invites us to responsibility for them, to the exclusion of no one….
Everybody that is just is called to form part of the Kingdom of Heaven-whether they be Buddhas, Jews, or Atheists-as long as they are good.
Faced with the sacredness of life and of the human person, and before the marvels of the universe, wonder is the only appropriate attitude.
Commending the victims to almighty God's mercy, I implore his strength upon all involved in rescue efforts and in caring for the survivors.
Respect for life and for the dignity of the human person also extends to the rest of creation, which is called to join man in praising God.
The people who know God well—mystics, hermits, prayerful people, those who risk everything to find God—always meet a lover, not a dictator.
If you try to assert wisdom before people have themselves walked it, be prepared for much resistance, denial, push-back, and verbal debate.
The Eucharist is the Sacrament of Love; It signifies Love, It produces love. The Eucharist is the consummation of the whole spiritual life.
It [covetousness] is a sin against God, just as all mortal sins, in as much as man condemns things eternal for the sake of temporal things.
I work with gang members, and I feel a kind of affinity and gift, even. But who would've thunk it, you know? I mean, I didn't anticipate it.
God passionately desires and ardently yearns for our salvation... Nothing is greater than this: that the blood of God was poured out for us.
There are many examples of this mistaken idea of freedom, such as the elimination of human life by legalized or generally accepted abortion.
God created us for love, for union, for forgiveness and compassion and, yet, that has not been our storyline. That has not been our history.
We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.
Clearly a big challenge for Christianity is how to remain in contact with the millions of people who look for God but do not come to Church.
Who will excuse us before God for the loss of such a great number of people, who could be saved by the slight assistance we could give them?
The employer is not going to choose the gang member who's just been released from prison: they're going to choose the person with the skills.
In a strange way the spiritual life isn't "useful" or "successful." But it is meant to be fruitful. And fruitfulness comes out of brokenness.
When I could no longer cling to my normal supports I discovered that true support and real safety lie far beyond the structures of our world.
The Our Father contains all the duties we owe to God, the acts of all the virtues and the petitions for all our spiritual and corporal needs.
The important thing is the willingness to give back the gift that is you, not the perfection of the gift itself. Can you feel the difference?
If you think something should be done, take the trouble to write to me about it, and together we will decide the time and manner of doing it.
Since the end of the World War II, the United States has fought three "small" wars...we lost all three of them and for the same reason-hubris.
Attribute to God every good that you have received. If you take credit for something that does not belong to you, you will be guilty of theft.
It is precisely in times of spiritual dryness that we must hold on to our spiritual discipline so that we can grow into new intimacy with God.
God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission.
The Holy Eucharist is like a divine Storehouse filled with every virtue; God has placed It in the world so that everyone one may draw from It.
A society will be judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members; and among the most vulnerable are surely the unborn and the dying.
Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.
Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.
That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell.