175 quotes found
“If a man cannot serve two masters, neither can Christianity, or several thousand of them as the case may be.”
“... what you think is right isn't the same as knowing what is right.”
“If you boil it down, just because someone else does the wrong thing we are not exempt from doing whats right.”
“That's it. Love makes us all strong.”
“... a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.”
“Faustus, who embraced evil and shunned righteousness, became the foremost symbol of the misuse of free will, that sublime gift from God with its inherent opportunity to choose virtue and reject ini...”
“In fine, a life of good or evil, the hope of Heaven or the despair of Hell, Faustus stands as a reminder that the choice between these two absolutes also falls to us.”
“The gates of Hell are terrible to behold, are they not?”
“There are many forms of tyrants, but there are none so terrible as those stifling their own people in the name of freedom.”
“The mark of man is initiative, but the mark of woman is cooperation. Man talks about freedom; woman about sympathy, love, sacrifice. Man cooperates with nature; woman cooperates with God. Man was c...”
“I know I am awful. But how much more awful I should be without the Faith.”
“The three Secrets of Fatima were closely held by the Vatican for decades, until the text of the third and last secret was finally released in 2000.”
“God awaits us with open arms; we need only to take a step toward him like the Prodigal Son. But if, weak as we are, we don't have the strength to take that step, just the desire to take it is enough.”
“How can I use these [romantic] desires to love him, to serve him as a brother in Christ...”
“Jesus assumes, as it were, the fall of man, lets himself into man's fallenness, prays to the Father out of the lowest depths of human dereliction and anguish. He lays his will in the will of the Fa...”
“We throw ourselves down, as Jesus did, before the mystery of God's power present to us, knowing that the Cross is the true burning bush, the place of the flame of God's love, which burns but does n...”
“Heaven is not a republic.”
“Even as a man just recovering from illness walks only so far as he is obliged to go, with a slow and weary step, so the converted sinner journeys along as far as God commands him but slowly and wea...”
“The moment we care for anything deeply, the world - that is, all the other miscellaneous interests - becomes our enemy. Christians showed it when they talked of keeping one's self "unspotted from t...”
“Freedom of choice makes it possible to plan our lives and to make the most of ourselves. Yet if this freedom lacks noble goals or personal discipline, it degenerates into an inability to give onese...”
