175 quotes found
“Conscience, Christ, and the gift of faith make evil men uneasy in their sin. They feel that if they could drive Christ from the earth, they would be free from "moral inhibitions." They forget that ...”
“Faith and reason are indeed complementary faculties that we use to think about the truth. When any winged creature (or mechanism) tries to fly on just one wing, it falls to the ground. In a similar...”
“The world offers you comfort. But you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness”
“At the root of all misery is unfulfilled desire.”
“The only cure for suffering is to face it head on, grasp it round the neck and use it.”
“Love is something worth suffering for...”
“But the truth is that there is no more conscious inconsistency between the humility of a Christian and the rapacity of a Christian than there is between the humility of a lover and the rapacity of ...”
“An historic institution, which never went right, is really quite much of a miracle as an institution that cannot go wrong.”
“The people of God cannot be changed until the outcasts are restored to its body.”
“You will go far in the Church.""I have no desire to go far. My only ambition is to be a good priest.""You will be that, of course. Nevertheless, you will go higher. And do you know why?Why?Because,...”
“Sir, I cannot sing. I have no formal training. I do not read music. And I know this is a church - but I play a mean harmonica.”
“Roman Catholicism is a broken and utterly desperate thing, capable only of malignant mischief in our awakening world.”
“The spiritual muscles I hadn't used for decades began to acquire some tone, and since they were Catholic muscles too, it was natural to look for a church to work out in.It was hard. Appalling thoug...”
“Thus [the altar] brings heaven into the community assembled on earth, or rather it takes the community beyond itself into the communion of saints of all times and places. We might put it this way: ...”
“...Don't ever worry bout bein holy, babychild. Just keep your eyes wide open except when you sleep. Then let the Lord's mighty vision see you through the night.”
“The way to begin healing the wounds of the world is to treasure the Infant Christ in us; to be not the castle but the cradle of Christ; and, in rocking that cradle to the rhythm of love, to swing t...”
“I show how much of the wars of religion involved Catholics killing Catholics, Lutherans killing Lutherans, and Catholic-Protestant collaboration. (Page 10 The Myth of Religious Violence)”
“a criminal sketch of Christon a diner napkin-'Poet Prophets”
“Mr Kingsley begins then by exclaiming- 'O the chicanery, the wholesale fraud, the vile hypocrisy, the conscience-killing tyranny of Rome! We have not far to seek for an evidence of it. There's Fath...”
“In my philosophy, I think churches should not argue and be greedy with money. I think different churches like the synagogues, mosques, and Christian/Catholic churches should focus on bringing peace...”
