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 central loyalty life is unfinished.
Fulton J. SheenTag: happiness philosophy christianity god religion marriage unhappy-marriage church relationships spirituality catholicism expectations lovers relationship-with-god
Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.
Fulton J. SheenTag: christianity god religion spirituality catholicism jesus-christ catholic perfected-man
Many married women who have deliberately spurned the "hour" of childbearing are unhappy and frustrated. They never discovered the joys of marriage because they refused to surrender to the obligation of their state. In saving themselves, they lost themselves!
Fulton J. SheenTag: happiness philosophy christianity religion marriage unhappy-marriage spirituality expectation catholicism childbirth family-planning pro-life joy-of-marriage
Far better it is for you to say: "I am a sinner," than to say: "I have no need of religion." The empty can be filled, but the self-intoxicated have no room for God.
Fulton J. SheenTag: christianity god religion catholicism catholic sinners anti-religious
In Christ, for the first time, we see that in God himself there exists--within his inseparable unity--the distinction between the Father who gives and the Gift which is given (the Son), but only in the unity of the Holy Spirit.
Hans Urs von BalthasarTag: christianity god theology catholicism jesus-christ christ holy-trinity holy-spirit god-father god-son god-spirit
Theology is just not important in Judaism, or in any other religion, really. There's no orthodoxy, as you have it in the Catholic Church. No complicated creeds to which everybody must subscribe. No infallible pronouncements by a pope. Nobody can tell Jews what to believe. Within reason, you can believe what you like... We have orthopraxy instead of orthodoxy. Right practice rather then right belief. That's all. You Christians make such a fuss about theology, but it's not important in the way you think. It's just poetry, really, ways of talking about the inexpressible.
Hyam MaccobyTag: practice christianity theory catholicism judaism
The Church does not dispense the sacrament of baptism in order to acquire for herself an increase in membership but in order to consecrate a human being to God and to communicate to that person the divine gift of birth from God.
Hans Urs von BalthasarTag: christianity god faith theology catholicism birth baptism infant-baptism
It would be unjust toward children to introduce them to Christian teaching and existence only as little pagans and catechumens, in order to leave it up to them to choose the Faith on their own responsibility at a point in time difficult to determine.
Hans Urs von BalthasarTag: christianity faith theology catholicism baptism infant-baptism
To be a child means to owe one's existence to another, and even in our adult life we never quite reach the point where we no longer have to give thanks for being the person we are.
Hans Urs von BalthasarTag: christianity god theology catholicism christ god-father god-son
God defines himself as "I am who I am", which also means: My being is such that I shall always be present in every moment of becoming.
Hans Urs von BalthasarTag: christianity god spirituality catholicism eternal-father god-father
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