Quotes

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Don’t Waste Your Freedom

March 8, 2010 · 0 comments

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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 we exercise our freedom; it is in this – in truth, in goodness, and in beauty – that we find happiness and joy. We must not allow ourselves to be deceived by those who see us merely as consumers in a market of undifferentiated possibilities, where choice itself becomes the good, novelty usurps beauty, and subjective experience displaces truth.” – Pope Benedict XVI (New Technologies, New Relationships.)

“Choice becomes the good, novelty usurps beauty, and subjective experience displaces truth”? Sounds uncomfortably familiar.

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Quote: Reason’s last step (love it)

March 2, 2010 · 0 comments

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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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Quote: Are u headed down hill?

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Here’s some more wisdom from one of the most amazing philosophers the world has ever known – and one of my personal favorites – the Great Unknown. Or is it Unknown the Great? I can never remember.
“If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.” – Unknown

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Quote: God cannot fill what is already full

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This is another one of my favorite quotes from Mother Teresa:
“If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride because it shows you trust in your own power. Your self-sufficiency, your selfishness and your intellectual pride will inhibit His coming to live in your heart because God cannot fill what is already full. [...]

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Quote: Wiser than I

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“Now a Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that somebody else may be wiser than he is.”
- G.K. Chesterton (The Well and the Shadows)
In otherwords, as Catholics, we are admitting that we need Jesus’ Church. We are admitting that He gave us this Church [...]

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A Tired Democracy

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“A despotism may almost be defined as a tired democracy. As fatigue falls on a community, the citizens are less inclined for that eternal vigilance which has truly been called the price of liberty; and they prefer to arm only one single sentinel to watch the city while they sleep.” – G. K. Chesterton
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Quote: By it I see everything else

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“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.” -C.S. Lewis
Some things you simply have to try out first before you can fully appreciate them or understand them. St. Augustine echos the same sentiment:

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Quote: If you really love them

“Whoever really loves his partner loves not only for what he receives, but loves that partner for the partner’s own sake, content to be able to enrich the other with the gift of himself.” – Pope Paul VI
This is at the heart of a marriage – of any vocation. It’s at the heart of [...]

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Quote: Neither is nor any longer ought to be called a Christian

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“Let us note that the very tradition, teaching, and faith of the Catholic Church from the beginning, which the Lord gave, was preached by the Apostles, and was preserved by the Fathers. On this was the Church founded; and if anyone departs from this, he neither is nor any longer ought to be called a [...]

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Never enough time? Maybe it’s not more time that you need.

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“Lack of prayer is the cause of lack of time.” – Peter Kreeft
I had to read this one a few times to make sure I was understanding it properly. At first I was thinking, “yep, my lack of time leads to lack of prayer. I just don’t make enough time for prayer [...]

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Quote: How do we get peace in society?

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“Peace in society depends upon peace in the family.” – St. Augustine
This is so profoundly true. And yet we spend so much effort on so many other things while not only neglecting the family, but trivializing and redefining it.

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