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Quotes by Theologian
"I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness."
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"Grace tried is better than grace, and more than grace; it is glory in its infancy."
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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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"Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being."
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"It is a grievous sin in the sight of God for any man to presume to baptize, unless God has authorized him by new revelation to baptize in his name."
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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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"I see with greater and greater clearness that consistent Christianity is the easiest Christianity to defend."
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"The most powerful moral influence is example."
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"The true God He has extension, and form, and dimensions. He occupies space; has a body, parts, and passions; can go from place to place. He can eat, drink, and talk."
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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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"The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?"
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"Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters."
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"Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice."
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"We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness."
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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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"The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable."
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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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"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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"Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood."
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"Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt."
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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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"Rest, rest, shall I have not all eternity to rest."
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"Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value."
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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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"Let the attitude of your life be a continual willingness to "go out" in dependence upon God, and your life will have a sacred and inexpressible charm about it that is very satisfying to Jesus. You must learn to "go out" through your convictions, creeds, or experiences until you come to the point in your faith where there is nothing between yourself and God."
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"We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away."
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"Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires."
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"Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship."
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"Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian."
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"God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray."
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"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats."
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"In essentials, unity; in differences, liberty; in all things, charity."
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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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"Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness."
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"God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation."
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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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"Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain."
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"Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross."
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"When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause his child a needless tear. We may not understand life any better, but we will not resent life any longer."
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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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"The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul."
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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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"One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons."
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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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"Bless them that persecute you.' If our enemy cannot put up with us any longer and takes to cursing us, our immediate reaction must be to lift up our hands and bless him. Our enemies are the blessed of the Lord. Their curse can do us no harm. May their poverty be enriched with all the riches of God, with the blessing of Him whom they seek to oppose in vain. We are ready to endure their curses so long as they redound to their blessing."
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