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Read through the most famous quotes by topic #catholicism
He was alone in his wonderment, amoung creatures incapable of wonder --for them it was enough to exist and go their way. ↗
Heaven forbid that we should believe in such a way as not to accept or seek reasons, since we could not even believe if we did not possess rational souls. ↗
Protestants believe that the sacraments are like ladders that God gave to us by which we can climb up to Him. Catholics believe that they are like ladders that God gave to Himself by which He climbs down to us. ↗
On ne comprends rien à la civilisation moderne, si l'on n'admet pas d'abord qu'elle est une conspiration universelle contre toute espèce de vie intérieure. ↗
It is closer to the truth to say that God is crazy than that God is reasonable. I suspect God merely smiles when someone calls him crazy, but shakes His head and frowns when someone calls Him reasonable. ↗
Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence of God. ↗
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Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons. ↗
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When Benedict dies, he will have the pleasure of standing before whatever furious God he believes in, to answer for how it was that he knew for undeniable fact that one -- if not dozens -- of his priests repeatedly molested, abused and/or raped young children for decades, and he did nothing to stop it. How much does God believe the pope's argument that Vatican PR trumps pedophilia? Joe Ratzinger, 82, will soon find out. ↗
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. ↗
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