#sm

He was alone in his wonderment, amoung creatures incapable of wonder --for them it was enough to exist and go their way. ↗

— John Paul II

#christianity #catholicism

Catholics have more extreme sex lives because they're taught that pleasure is bad for you. Who thinks it's normal to kneel down to a naked man who's nailed to a cross? It's like a bad leather bar. ↗

— John Waters

#catholics #cross #crucifix #jesus #jesus-christ

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. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#catholicism

Nothing short of the end of the world would get our eco-conscious techies to toss their latest gadgets onto the street. ↗

— Susan Ee

#environmentalism #hypocrisy #hypocrisy

We don't inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. ↗

— David Brower

#environmentalism #legacy #environmentalism

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. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#christianity #god #jesus-shock #protestantism #sacraments

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. ↗

— Georges Bernanos

#french #spirituality #catholicism

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. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#christianity #crazy #god #jesus-shock #philosophy

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. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#catholicism #christianity #deism #deist #god

Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#christianity #god #jesus-shock #ontological-oxymoron #ontology