#catholicism

Mary thus learns that the Most High has ever borne a Son in his bosom, and that this Son has now chosen her bosom as dwelling-place. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#catholicism #christ #christianity #god #incarnation

The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#catholicism #christianity #jesus-shock #philosophy #pleasure

Organized religion is the school of hate, and never more exultant in its righteous indignation than when it talks about gay and lesbian. In America the unholy alliance between the know-nothing fundamentalists and the Catholic hierarchy keeps the faithful whipped up to a frenzy of witch-hunting and fag-bashing. ↗

— Paul Monette

#glbt #hate #homophobia #religion #faith

The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#christianity #philosophy #religion #society #sociology

An institution is right or it is wrong. One that cannot accept dinosaur bones is one that cannot be trusted on more important matters. ↗

— Fletcher Wortmann

#religion #religion

She had no need in her heart for either book or magazine. She had her own way of escape, her own passage into contentment: her rosary. That string of white beads, the tiny links worn in a dozen places and held together by strands of white thread which in turn broke regularly, was, bead for bead, her quiet flight out of the world. Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. And Maria began to climb. Bead for bead, life and living fell away. Hail Mary, Hail Mary. Dream without sleep encompassed her. Passion without flesh lulled her. Love without death crooned the melody of belief. She was away: she was free; she was no longer Maria, American or Italian, poor or rich, with or without electric washing machines and vacuum cleaners; here was the land of all-possessing. Hail Mary, Hail Mary, over and over, a thousand and a hundred thousand times, prayer upon prayer, the sleep of the body, the escape of the mind, the death of memory, the slipping away of pain, the deep silent reverie of belief. Hail Mary and Hail Mary. It was for this that she lived. ↗

— John Fante

#catholicism #fante #death

You and I are part of the colony of heaven. Right now, we may reside here on earth, but our passport indicates that our citizenship is in heaven. We are on the earth, but not of the earth. ↗

— Allen R. Hunt

#christ #christianity #god #heaven #inspirational

We are all born like Catholics . . . in limbo, without religion. ↗

— Yann Martel

#religion #life

The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable rights of man as a gift from God, the Source of law. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#christianity #democracy #god #philosophy #politics

Happiness is not only a hope, but also in some strange manner a memory ... we are all kings in exile. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#exile #happiness #home #manners