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, ” said Orselli, “you are not afraid of worldliness. I do not mean that you are worldly. Far from it. But you have a talent for being all things to all men. Henry Morton Robinson
Isn't it funny how the memories you cherish before a breakup can become your worst enemies afterwards? The thoughts you loved to think about, the memories you wanted to hold up to the light and view from every angle--it suddenly seems a lot safer to...
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Ally Condie
Church was doing what he often did when dropped - lying on his back with all four legs in the air, pretending to be dead in order to induce guilt in his owners.
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Cassandra Clare
It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in bringing out the worst in one another. Lovers who have nothing else to do but love each other soon find there is nothing else. Without a...
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Fulton J. Sheen
If you live today, you breath in nihilism ... it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church to fight it with or to tell me the necessity of fighting it, I would be the stinkingest logical positivist you ever saw right now.
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Flannery OConnor
The church must suffer for speaking the truth, for pointing out sin, for uprooting sin. No one wants to have a sore spot touched, and therefore a society with so many sores twitches when someone has the courage to touch it and say: “You have...
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Oscar A. Romero
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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, ” said Orselli, “you are...
You will all be assailed, my dear friends, by the very real temptation to believe that you have been forsaken by God — that your priesthood is in vain, and that the weight of mortal grief and sin is more than you can bear. In...
