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Quotes by Theologian
"Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation."
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"Many persons seek community because they are afraid of loneliness...those who take refuge in community while fleeing from themselves are misuing it to indulge in empty talk and distraction, no matter how spiritual this idle talk and distraction may appear...it is precisely such misuse of community that creates deadly isolation of human beings."
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"I have to go on being a priest and bishop, that is, to celebrate God and what God has done in Jesus, and to offer in God's name whatever I can discern of God's perspective on the world around - something which involves both challenge and comfort."
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"For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God."
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"Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others."
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"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."
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"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."
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"The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way."
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"If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives."
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"One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve."
Will,
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"Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence."
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"Jesus Christ came into my prison cell last night, and every stone flashed like a ruby."
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"The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted."
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"For even these are no less bestowed on him of pure grace, than are righteousness and salvation themselves."
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"Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you."
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"If a product is more expensive than another one, and more sustainable in ecology, consumers will not buy it."
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"Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is but only how He is not."
God,
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"Our second remark is, that the office is of divine appointment, not merely in the sense in which the civil powers are ordained of God, but in the sense that ministers derive their authority from Christ, and not from the people."
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"That the apostolic office is temporary, is a plain historical fact."
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"Conscience is the sentinel of virtue."
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"When we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code, but a character."
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"Nothing is more depressing and more illogical than aggressive Christianity."
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"Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate."
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"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."
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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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"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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"Christianity is the greatest intellectual system the mind of man has ever touched."
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"Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes."
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"It was seldom that I attended any religious meetings, as my parents had not much faith in and were never so unfortunate as to unite themselves with any of the religious sects."
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"By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive."
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"I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment."
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"In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can."
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"History is the story of events, with praise or blame."
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"My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence."
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"There's a certain amount of disorder that has to be reorganized."
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"The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert."
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"Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them."
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"In spite of the polls, the fact is that American Muslims are very happy and they thrive in this country."
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"A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing."
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"Judge yourself; if you do that you will not be judged by God, as St. Paul says. But it must be a real sense of your own sinfulness, not an artificial humility."
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"A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing."
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"However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing."
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"Each atom of the Holy Spirit is intelligent, and like all other matter has solidity, form, and size, and occupies space."
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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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"How small regard is had to the oath of God by men professing the name of God."
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