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I wonder what day I shall die on - one passes year by year over one's death day, as one might pass over one's grave.
It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.
When the Holy Rosary is said well, it gives Jesus and Mary more glory and is more meritorious than any other prayer.
I plead with you--never, ever give up on hope, never doubt, never tire, and never become discouraged. Be not afraid.
Through the Rosary the faithful receive abundant grace, as though from the very hands of the Mother of the Redeemer.
The Rosary is a prayer both so humble and simple and a theologically rich in Biblical content. I beg you to pray it.
The existence of a prime mover- nothing can move itself; there must be a first mover. The first mover is called God.
An act of love always tends towards two things; to the good that one wills, and to the person for whom one wills it.
Make it a practice to judge persons and things in the most favorable light at all times and under all circumstances.
If after so much effort and prayer, the matter is not successful, it will be a clear sign that God does not will it.
God's affairs are accomplished gradually and almost imperceptibly and His spirit is neither violent nor tempestuous.
Have you ever stopped to think that Christianity is the only religion in which the first step is to say, "I'm wrong?"
The power of community policing is in the relationship. This can happen only if an officer sticks around for a while.
The crisis of our prayer life is that our minds may be filled with ideas of God while our hearts remain far from him.
Indeed, no one does more injury in the church than he who acts perversely and yet has the name and order of sanctity.
Rediscover the Rosary in the light of scripture, in harmony with the Liturgy, and in the context of your daily lives.
When we fail we are merely joining the great parade of humanity that has walked ahead of us and will follow after us.
We are exceptionally good at seeing the faults in others and exceptionally adept at ignoring the faults in ourselves.
Believing is an act of the intellect assenting to the divine truth by command of the will moved by God through grace.
But man is freer than all the animals, on account of his free-will, with which he is endowed above all other animals.
It is necessary for the perfection of human society that there should be men who devote their lives to contemplation.
I'm a follower of the Christ path, and that opens a huge discussion about what we even mean by words like "Christian."
We who oppose abortion do not oppose those who have had abortions; rather, we embrace them with forgiveness and peace.
People have to see that there is a high degree of complexity about belonging to a gang. It's a symptom, not a problem.
Ministry is the least important thing. You cannot not minister if you are in communion with God and live in community.
Be demanding of the world around you; be demanding first of all with yourselves. Be children of God; take pride in it!
the path of goodness had a name it is called Love in it we find the key to every hope and has it's root in God Himself
Peace is not just the absence of war. Like a cathedral, peace must be constructed patiently and with unshakable faith.
Once God and grace move us to the second half of life, religion becomes a mystical matter, rather than a moral matter.
Jesus Lord, kind Pelican, Cleanse my filth with Thy blood, One drop of which can save The whole world from all its sin
To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness.
When I say I trust Jesus, that is what I mean: I trust that the way of life leads through perishability, not around it.
The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there.
Forgiveness changes the way we remember. It converts the curse into a blessing. Forgiveness indeed heals memories . . .
We just have to recognize life for what it is: a gift to be grateful for, not a property to cling to, hoard, or defend.
For many, religion has to do with what we are allowed to do and not allowed to do. In the end, that doesn't bear fruit.
This sounds very simple and maybe even trite, but very few people know that they are loved without condition or limits.
Joy and laughter are the gifts of living in the presence of God and trusting that tomorrow is not worth worrying about.
Upon us lies the responsibility neither to neglect things because they are old nor to reject them because they are new.
Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
The Eucharist is the heart of the Church. Where Eucharistic life flourishes, there the life of the church will blossom.
It is not enough to long for a person as a good for oneself, one must also, and above all, long for that person's good.
Our prayers must spring from the indigenous soil of our own personal confrontation with the Spirit of God in our lives.
Whole people see and create wholeness wherever they go; split people see and create splits in everything and everybody.
God is always drawing us closer, blow by blow and bit by bit. And most of the time we do not even know it is happening.
God himself would not permit evil in this world if good did not come of it for the benefit and harmony of the universe.
Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.
The Blessed Eucharist is the perfect Sacrament of the Lord's Passion, since It contains Christ Himself and his Passion.
The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all.
Earth is so thick with divine possibility that it is a wonder we can walk anywhere without cracking our shins on altars.