#catholic

If you complain to someone, you assume that it's someone who really cares about you. ↗

— Scott Hahn

#complaining #encouragement #inspirational #inspirational

[God] disciplines us for our good, that we may share His holiness. ↗

— Scott Hahn

#discipline #encouragement #holiness #inspirational #inspirational

The best I can tell you in that way is that I’m much more at ease with fellow-Catholics than I am with heathens or Protestants. One has so many basic assumptions in common that there’s so much that doesn’t need saying, and when you’re talking to even the most amusing and intelligent heathen you suddenly find that something you’ve said has no meaning at all to them. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#intelligence

Respect for the dignity of others includes treating them as rational creatures capable of being persuadad by rational argument, even in the face of frequent evidence to the contrary. ↗

— Richard John Neuhaus

#dignity #education #intelligence #respect #education

Most people know the sheer wonder that goes with falling in love, how not only does everything in heaven and earth become new, but the lover himself becomes new. It is literally like the sap rising in the tree, putting forth new green shoots of life. ↗

— Caryll Houselander

#falling-in-love #love #life

I wanted to shut my mind, that my thoughts might close on my own peace, I wanted to close the peace of my love in my heart like dew in a dark rose." From "Philip Speaks ↗

— Caryll Houselander

#love #peace #rose #love

Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#christianity #criticism #judgement #philosophy #spirituality

The idea of formulated 'rights ... comes not from John Locke and Thomas Jefferson ... but from the canon law of the Catholic Church. ↗

— Thomas E. Woods Jr.

#law #catholicism

. . . there was little to choose between Jews and Catholics. The Jews had holidays that turned up out of the blue and the Catholics had children in much the same way. ↗

— Alan Bennett

#humor #jewish #marriage #marriage

A lost person or article is still what it is, still valuable in itself, but in the wrong place, disconnected from its purpose and unable to be or do whatever it is intended to be or do. ↗

— David Winter

#catholic #lost #purpose #religion #value