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The Best Way to Drink: Carelessly

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If you want to be a good Christian, you should drink carelessly. That was the topic of my recent post over on CatholicDrinkie.com, a blog dedicated to good drink in good faith. Here’s a bit from my post: [Keep Reading]

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I Wish God Didn’t Trust Me So Much

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“I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish that He didn’t trust me so much.” ~Blessed Mother Teresa

One of the most attractive things about Mother Teresa was her honesty. We don’t have to pretend to others that being a Christian means life is all smileys and cookie cakes. It wasn’t for her. It won’t be for us. In fact, it’s precisely the point that the Christian Life is often not those things that actually makes it so ultimately attractive to people. It’s real. It’s when you pretend it’s something that it’s not that it ceases to be believable – because it becomes fake. [Keep Reading]

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Dusty, sweaty, bloody faces

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“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs [...]

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Can Secularism and a Culture of Faith live together?

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I just had to share these words of Pope Benedict from earlier this week. So good! Especially the last part.
Answering a query about the current secularization of Portugal, a once profoundly Catholic country, the Holy Father replied that Portugal “has carried the faith to all corners of the world; a courageous, intelligent and creative faith. [...]

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In Search of Comfort? Or Truth?

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“If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.” – C. S. Lewis
This is a long time favorite quote of mine. But it jumped out at [...]

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Astonished at how much the old man had learned

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What a difference a little perspective makes…
“When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.” – Mark Twain

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Ten thousand reasons all amounting to one

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“The difficulty of explaining ‘why I am a Catholic’ is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true.” – G. K. Chesterton
Amen. What he said.

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Love without getting tired

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“Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.” – Mother Teresa
Such simple, wise words from the Mo-T. And my daily motivation to just keep on keepin’ on.

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A very simple thing to do today…and every day

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“Break the Conventions. Keep the Commandments.” – G.K. Chesterton
If you want to be a real rebel. If you want to live an extraordinary life. Try being a Christian. Not just professing it, but living it.
In doing so, you will be most fully yourself. And that will make you truly original without even trying [...]

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Don’t Waste Your Freedom

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Freedom is wasted when not used for these ends: the pursuit of the true, the good and the beautiful.
“Life is not just a succession of events or experiences: it is a search for the true, the good and the beautiful. It is to this end that we make our choices; it is for this that [...]

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Quote: Reason’s last step (love it)

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Blaise Pascal was a scientific genius. He was pretty smart about other stuff, too.
“Reason’s last step is the recognition that there are an infinite number of things which are beyond it.” – Blaise Pascal

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Quote: Were all men created equal?

“The Declaration of Independence dogmatically bases all rights on the fact that God created all men equal; and it is right; for if they were not created equal, they were certainly evolved unequal. There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man.” – G.K. Chesterton What [...]

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Quote: How is your desire for ‘virtual connectedness’ these days?

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“If the desire for virtual connectedness becomes obsessive, it may in fact function to isolate individuals from real social interaction while also disrupting the patterns of rest, silence and reflection that are necessary for healthy human development.” – Pope Benedict XVI (Message for 43rd World Communications Day)
Profoundly insightful on two fronts:

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Quote: Ghandi on Speed

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“There is more to life than increasing its speed.” – Ghandi
So much of what our culture values most is increasing its speed – or quantity. So much so that we are willing to justify just about anything in order to get it.
Whether it is living longer, seeing more things, staying up later, moving on [...]

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Quote: Chesterton on Materialism

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As an explanation of the world, materialism has a sort of insane simplicity. It has the quality of the madman’s argument: we have at once the sense of if covering everything and the sense of it leaving everything out.
What a mysterious world we live in. Full of meaning we’ve found and so much [...]

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Quote: Morality needs religious principle

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“Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports…And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion…reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.” – George Washington
Even (especially) George Washington and [...]

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