Much of what is called Christianity has more to do with disguising the ego behind the screen of religion and culture than any real movement toward a God beyond the small self, and a new self in God.
Richard RohrTags: christianity psychology catholicism
Considering he was neither priest nor scholar, the young man gave sensible, thoughtful replies -- the more so, perhaps, for being untrained, for he had not learned what he should believe or should not believe. Present a statement to him in flagrant contradiction to all Christian doctrine and he could be persuaded to agree on its good sense, unless he remembered it was the sort of thing of which pyres are made for the incautious.
Iain PearsTags: education reason freedom philosophy freedom-of-thought persecution rationality independent-thought catholicism freedom-of-religion doctrine inquisition good-sense schooling
We must go out to Pure Life, Pure Truth, Pure Love, and that is the definition of God. He is the ultimate goal of life; from Him we came, and in Him alone do we find our peace.
Fulton J. SheenTags: god catholicism catholic
Because God is full of life, I imagine each morning Almighty God says to the sun, "Do it again"; and every evening to the moon and the stars, "Do it again"; and every springtime to the daisies, "Do it again"; and every time a child is born into the world asking for curtain call, that the heart of the God might once more ring out in the heart of the babe.
Fulton J. SheenTags: god born catholicism catholic
But there was no room at the inn"; the inn is the gathering place of public opinion; so often public opinion locks its doors to the King.
Fulton J. SheenTags: christmas catholicism catholic
Most of us love a non-self, or something extrinsic and apart from our inner life; but a mother's love during the time she is a flesh-and-blood ciborium is not for a non-self but for one that is her very self, a perfect example of charity and love which hardly perceives a separation. Motherhood then becomes a kind of priesthood. She brings God to man by preparing the flesh in which the soul will be implanted; she brings man to God in offering the child back again to the Creator.
Fulton J. SheenTags: life selflessness motherhood catholicism catholic
We become like that which we love. If we love what is base, we become base; but if we love what is noble, we become noble.
Fulton J. SheenTags: catholicism catholic
A man may stand for the justice of God, but a woman stands for His Mercy.
Fulton J. SheenTags: catholicism catholic catholic-spirituality
We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
Fulton J. SheenTags: catholicism catholic
When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a child without consciousness of that eternal crown!
Fulton J. SheenTags: life children god catholicism catholic
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