#catholicism

I had a born-again experience at the age of 33. As a result of that I found a church where I felt I was being fed properly. I don't say that as a reflection on Catholicism. But once I was born again, I got an evangelical spirit. ↗

— Bill McCartney

#age #being #born #born-again #catholicism

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#painful #punishment #religion #soothing

Catholicism is a wide tent in terms of political and legal positions. We could have nine Catholics on the Supreme Court and a great deal of diversity toward the law. ↗

— Cass Sunstein

#catholics #could #court #deal #diversity

God gives us not only the truth but also the ability to believe it; not only the new thing to see but also the new eye to see it with. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#christianity #faith #god #jesus-shock #philosophy

What the Father gives is the capacity to be a self, freedom, and thus autonomy, but an autonomy which can be understood only as a surrender of self to the other. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#christ #christianity #christology #god #god-father

1883. ...The teaching of the Church has elaborated the principle of subsidiarity, according to which "a community of a higher order should not interfere in the internal life of a community of a lower order, depriving the latter of its functions, but rather should support it in case of need and help to co-ordinate its activity with the activities of the rest of society, always with a view to the common good. ↗

— The Catholic Church

#freedom #seperation-of-church-and-state #freedom

Only the Christian religion, which in its essence is communicated by the eternal child of God, keeps alive in its believers the lifelong awareness of their being children, and therefore of having to ask and give thanks for things. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#christ #christian-religion #christianity #god-father #god-son

The Catholic Church is like a thick steak, a glass of red wine, and a good cigar. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#church

The Catholic Church sees voluntary vampirism as a kind of suicide. I tend to agree. Though the Pope also excommunicated all animators, unless we ceased raising the dead. Fine; I became Episcopalian. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#episcopalians #vampires #catholicism

...all that is carried along by the stream's silvery cascade, rhythmically falling from the mountain, carried by its own current-- carried where? ↗

— John Paul II

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