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Quotes by Theologian
"Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory."
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"How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God."
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"I remember the Curia said, that's up to the American bishops, not up to Rome."
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"This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people'"
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"Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him."
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"All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors."
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"If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction."
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"Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past."
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"I see with greater and greater clearness that consistent Christianity is the easiest Christianity to defend."
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"Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent."
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"Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand."
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"How can a rabbi not live with doubt? The Bible itself is a book of doubt."
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"Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace."
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"If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy."
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"Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism."
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"Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life."
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"Many people seek fellowship because they are afraid to be alone...let him who cannot be alone beware of community. He will do harm to himself and to the community. Alone you stood before God when he called you; alone you had to answer that call; alone you had to struggle and pray; and alone you will die and give an account to God. You cannot escape yourself, for God has singled you out."
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"Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being."
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"The pride of life hath corrupted the judgment of others, and perverted them in the way of religion."
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"If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the man who unthinkingly accepts things can never reach."
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"The church can only defend its own space by fighting, not for space, but for the salvation of the world. Otherwise the church becomes a "religious society" that fights in its own interest and thus has ceased to be the church of God in the world."
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"The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false."
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"You will not be carried to Heaven lying at ease upon a feather bed."
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"We must believe what is good and true about the prophets, that they were sages, that they did understand what proceeded from their mouths, and that they bore prudence on their lips."
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"Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others."
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"It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins."
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"You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy."
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"Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious."
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"Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures."
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"You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad."
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"Never say you know a man until you have divided an inheritance with him."
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"God has prepared for Himself one great song of praise throughout eternity, and those who enter the community of God join in this song. It is the song that the "morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy at the creation of the world. (Job 38:7). It is the victory song of the children of Israel after passing through the Red Sea, the Magnificat of Mary after the annunciation, the song of Paul and Silas in the night of prison, the song of the singers on the sea of glass after their rescue, the "song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb (Rev. 15:3) It is the song of the heavenly fellowship."
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"Grace tried is better than grace, and more than grace; it is glory in its infancy."
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"Desires to which we cling closely can easily prevent us from being what we ought to be and can be; and on the other hand, desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer.Lack of desire is poverty."
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"The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable."
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"Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins."
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"To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin."
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"Jesus Christ came into my prison cell last night, and every stone flashed like a ruby."
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"Original sin is the only rational solution of the undeniable fact of the deep, universal and early manifested sinfulness of men in all ages, of every class, and in every part of the world."
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"The Lord Jesus will be revealed mightily, and will make bare his holy Arm, as well in the confusion of Antichrist, as in the conversion of the Jews, before the last judgment, and the end of all things."
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"It is more than a book, it is an institution which rules the Christian world."
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"An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind."
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"Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder."
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"When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith."
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"The earthly form of Christ is the form that died on the cross. The image of God is the image of Christ crucified. It is to this image that the life of the disciples must be conformed; in other words, they must be conformed to his death (Phil 3.10, Rom 6.4) The Christian life is a life of crucifixion (Gal 2.19) In baptism the form of Christ's death is impressed upon his own. They are dead to the flesh and to sin, they are dead to the world, and the world is dead to them (Gal 6.14). Anybody living in the strength of Christ's baptism lives in the strength of Christ's death."
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"One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity."
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