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Quotes by Theologian
"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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"The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened."
Past,
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"In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention."
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"Do not suffer any man to baptize or minister unto you, unless God has spoken unto him by the voice of his servants, and authorized him to minister in his name."
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"Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being."
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"Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches."
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"Jesus Christ came into my prison cell last night, and every stone flashed like a ruby."
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"How can a rabbi not live with doubt? The Bible itself is a book of doubt."
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"Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism."
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"Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures."
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"A baby is a loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other."
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"In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit."
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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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"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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"As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead."
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"Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends."
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"If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants."
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"Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory."
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"Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven."
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"I'm so thankful for the active obedience of Christ. No hope without it."
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"Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both."
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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 will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them."
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"Christianity is the greatest intellectual system the mind of man has ever touched."
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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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"The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art."
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"It is more than a book, it is an institution which rules the Christian world."
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"Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties."
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"Never say you know a man until you have divided an inheritance with him."
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"Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace."
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"As society advances the standard of poverty rises."
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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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"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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"If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way."
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"I remember the Curia said, that's up to the American bishops, not up to Rome."
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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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"Grace tried is better than grace, and more than grace; it is glory in its infancy."
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"When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality."
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"There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice."
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