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#catholicism

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By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice the manufacturer's icon on top: an apple with a bite out of it. ↗


— Peter Kreeft


#apple #apple-computer-inc #bible #catholicism #christianity

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

What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God. ↗


— Hans Urs von Balthasar


#christian-living #christianity #gift #god #inspirational

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 idea of formulated 'rights ... comes not from John Locke and Thomas Jefferson ... but from the canon law of the Catholic Church. ↗


— Thomas E. Woods Jr.


#law #catholicism

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


#christianity #catholicism






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