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“As you come to understand God and his plan more deeply, I hope that you will also understand yourself and your desires better and live more fully as the person who God made you, in love, to be.”
― Fr. Michael Schmitz, Made for Love: Same-Sex Attraction and the Catholic Church

“Sin is more serious than we understand. It is so serious that God has sent his only Son to die on the Cross to save us from sin. It is through the greatest act of violence ever committed by mankind—the brutal torture and murder of Jesus Christ—that God has brought about the greatest blessing.”
― Mike Schmitz, The Bible in a Year Companion, Volume I

“Our plans fail, but God has
a plan that does not fail.”
― Fr. Mike Schmitz, Untroubled by the Unknown: Trusting God in Every Moment

“Leon Bloy said, “The only real sadness, the only real failure, the only great tragedy in life, is not to become a saint.”
― Mike Schmitz, How to Make Great Decisions

“when now becomes Then you just get another now”
― Mike Schmitz

“God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission—I never may know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next.”** I know that God has made me on purpose, and because of that I can lift up my head, because of that I can live with purpose because my life matters.”
― Mike Schmitz, The Bible in a Year Companion, Volume I

“I needed to allow the wisdom of God to refocus, reshape, and reform my mind. I opened the book of Judges and read about a dark time in the history of God’s people: a time when there was a lack of good leadership; a time when the people of Israel were divided; a time when everyone simply “did what was right in their own eyes.” I began to see things in a new way. I allowed the incredible story of Scripture to teach me and form the way I viewed my own story … and our shared story. I saw the ways God was able to be present in the midst of pain, how he could work with broken people and broken systems. I recognized how God persisted in caring for his people, even when they were quick to run after idols and slow to repent. I saw how the Lord faithfully loved those who quickly forgot his love.”
― Mike Schmitz, The Bible in a Year Companion, Volume I

“This is the key. To love, we have to be free to choose not to love. To say yes freely, we must have the capacity to say no. So we can see that the tree was not put there to lure Adam and Eve into sin; the tree was put there so that they could love.”
― Michael Schmitz, Pocket Guide to the Sacrament of Reconciliation

“lockdowns”
― Mike Schmitz, The Bible in a Year Companion, Volume I

“If God really loved us, of course he would want us to eat this food that is good and desirable.” And in this moment, she does not trust God.”
― Michael Schmitz, Pocket Guide to the Sacrament of Reconciliation

“Why did you, Lord, allow me to come into existence and then abandon me like this? Though I am striving to be righteous, why does it seem like you do not care? Lord, do you not care that I’m hurting so much? I thought living righteously mattered to you. It now seems like it doesn’t matter at all.”
― Mike Schmitz, The Bible in a Year Companion, Volume I

“We can see the temptation to blame others for what we are guilty of doing. We can even see the way, in our postmodern culture, God himself is blamed for our suffering.”
― Michael Schmitz, Pocket Guide to the Sacrament of Reconciliation

“From the first sin, trust in God died in the human heart. But because of that, since the first sin, God has done everything he can to win back our trust.”
― Michael Schmitz, Pocket Guide to the Sacrament of Reconciliation

“Sometimes people can get it into their heads that anything they enjoy is probably a sin. But let’s go back to the story of Creation. Eve points out that she can eat of any of the trees in the Garden. God is not a God of scarcity; he is not even a God of rules. He is the God of gift, the God of abundance and freedom. God made this world for us to thrive in it. It is only when we misuse or abuse his good gifts that our lives—like the fuel pump in my car—begin to break down.”
― Michael Schmitz, Pocket Guide to the Sacrament of Reconciliation

“​We all have “broken stories,” but we know that God can write straight with crooked lines. In the end, he will fulfill his will.”
― Mike Schmitz, The Bible in a Year Companion, Volume I

“Ed Cole, in his book Treasure, says: “Procrastination, like disorganization, shows disrespect for time, self and others. It produces pressure on self and stress on others. It steals time, kills initiative and destroys production.” 9”
― Mike Schmitz, Thou Shalt Hustle: Pushing Past Average

“We need to worship God in the manner he has commanded rather than inventing our own form of worship.”
― Mike Schmitz, The Bible in a Year Companion, Volume I

“They are called to never forget who they are and who the Lord is.”
― Mike Schmitz, The Bible in a Year Companion, Volume I

“Love is what you have been “born to do,” and yet no one is born with the ability to do this well. We must learn how to love well. And doing so is not only a matter of taking in more information, but also a matter of transformation.”
― Michael Schmitz, Made for Love: Same-Sex Attraction and the Catholic Church

“If God is just, why is there so much evil in the world? Why do good people suffer?”
― Mike Schmitz, The Bible in a Year Companion, Volume I