Scott Hahn > Quotes

“If we do not fill our mind with prayer, it will fill itself with anxieties, worries, temptations, resentments, and unwelcome memories.”
― Scott Hahn, Signs of Life: 40 Catholic Customs and Their Biblical Roots

“We...sin not because we want what is evil, but because we want what isn't good enough.”
― Scott Hahn, Lord, Have Mercy: The Healing Power of Confession

“At the root of all misery is unfulfilled desire.”
― Scott Hahn, Hope for Hard Times

“If you complain to someone, you assume that it's someone who really cares about you.”
― Scott Hahn, Hope for Hard Times

“As we grow detached from things, we come (with God's help) to master our desires, and we give the mastery over to God. Discipline and divine grace heal the intellect and the will of the effects of concupiscence. We can begin to see things clearly.”
― Scott Hahn, Lord, Have Mercy: The Healing Power of Confession

“Love is something worth suffering for...”
― Scott Hahn, Hope for Hard Times

“Only when we cease to rely on our own strength can we discover that God's strength is always there for us.”
― Scott Hahn, Hope for Hard Times

“[God] disciplines us for our good, that we may share His holiness.”
― Scott Hahn, Hope for Hard Times

“Marriage and family life give us constant opportunities to deny ourselves for the sake of others. And yet self-denial is not a mask for self-contempt, but the necessary means for achieving self-mastery; for self-mastery makes possible our self-giving and self-fulfillment. Sin is not wanting too much, but settling for too little. It's settling for self-gratification rather than self-fulfillment.”
― Scott Hahn, First Comes Love: Finding Your Family in the Church and the Trinity

“We are created for the sake of love. When we experience love in family life, it is heavenly, but it is still only an image of the greater glory we hope to behold in heaven.”
― Scott Hahn

“Judgment, then, is not an impersonal, legalistic process. It is a matter of love, and it is something we choose for ourselves. Nor is punishment a vindictive act. God's "curses" are not expressions of hatred, but of fatherly love and discipline. Like medicinal ointment, they hurt in order to heal. They impose suffering that is remedial, restorative, and redemptive. God's wrath is an expression of His love for His wayward children.”
― Scott Hahn, The Lamb's Supper: The Mass as Heaven on Earth

“He gave our pain and struggles a holy significance, a redemptive power, which makes it a privilege for us to suffer with Christ.”
― Scott Hahn, Hope for Hard Times

“Down through the centuries, the Church has carefully preserved, protected, and defended its Marian teachings, because to give them up would be to give up the gospel.”
― Scott Hahn, Hail, Holy Queen: The Mother of God in the Word of God

“The family is the key of Christmas.”
― Scott Hahn

“People who give a shit are sexy.”
― Scott Hahn

“Salvation history reveals sin as literally a broken home.”
― Scott Hahn, A Father Who Keeps His Promises: God's Covenant Love in Scripture

“To deny the force of divine judgment, then, is to make God less than God, and to make us less than His children. For every father must discipline His children, and paternal discipline is itself a mercy, a fatherly expression of love.”
― Scott Hahn, The Lamb's Supper: The Mass as Heaven on Earth

“The Church is the Body of Christ, and as such it is both heavenly and earthly. The Church is the communion of saints, and it includes as members both angels and shepherds - cherubim and seraphim, and you, and me.”
― Scott Hahn

“The family is the key to Christmas. The family is the key to Christianity. Pope Saint John Paul II noted that everything good—history, humanity, salvation—“passes by way of the family.”1 When God came to save us, he made salvation inseparable from family life, manifest in family life. Since the family is the ordinary setting of human life, he came to share it, redeem it, and perfect it. He made it an image and sacrament of a divine mystery. Salvation itself finds meaning only in familial relations.”
― Scott Hahn, Joy to the World: How Christ's Coming Changed Everything

“the laws of God, like the law of gravity, do not depend upon how I feel about them.”
― Scott Hahn, Reasons to Believe: How to Understand, Explain, and Defend the Catholic Faith

“If God welcomed newborns into Israel by means of ritual circumcision for two thousand years, why would He suddenly close the kingdom to babies because they could not understand ritual baptism?”
― Scott Hahn, Reasons to Believe: How to Understand, Explain, and Defend the Catholic Faith

“history of salvation is not a small event, on a poor planet, in the immensity of the universe. It is not a minimal thing which happens by chance on a lost planet. It is the motive for everything, the motive for creation. Everything is created so that this story can exist, the encounter between God and his creature. —Pope Benedict XVI, address at the opening of the 12th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, October 6, 2008”
― Scott Hahn, Joy to the World: How Christ's Coming Changed Everything

“Do not be downhearted because of scandals in the Church. Jesus Himself warned that scandals would come, and that the wicked would be judged and punished. We should rest in His promise. We should rest in His one true Church, even if within the Church we find much unrest.”
― Scott Hahn & Mike Aquilina

“Redemptive suffering is an essential part of our master story. This is what it means for us to bear the image and likeness of God. By the power of the Holy Spirit, our suffering refines our charity, just as our charity transforms our suffering into a living sacrifice that allows God to have his way into our lives.”
― Scott Hahn, The Fourth Cup: Unveiling the Mystery of the Last Supper and the Cross

“the groundbreakers in many sciences were devout believers. Witness the accomplishments of Nicolaus Copernicus (a priest) in astronomy, Blaise Pascal (a lay apologist) in mathematics, Gregor Mendel (a monk) in genetics, Louis Pasteur in biology, Antoine Lavoisier in chemistry, John von Neumann in computer science, and Enrico Fermi and Erwin Schrodinger in physics. That’s a short list, and it includes only Roman Catholics; a long list could continue for pages. A roster that included other believers—Protestants, Jews, and unconventional theists like Albert Einstein, Fred Hoyle, and Paul Davies—could fill a book.”
― Scott Hahn, Reasons to Believe: How to Understand, Explain, and Defend the Catholic Faith

“Prayer doesn't change GOD. He is unchanging and unchangeable. But it does change us, making us more like Him, and thus more able to accept His will, whatever it may be. Prayer makes us radiate goodness.”
― Scott Hahn & Mike Aquilina

“If Catholics would simply live the Sacrament of Matrimony for one generation, we would witness a transformation of society and have a Christian culture.”
― Scott Hahn, The First Society: The Sacrament of Matrimony and the Restoration of the Social Order

“you wives, be submissive to your husbands, so that some, though they do not obey the”
― Scott Hahn, Ignatius Catholic Study Bible: New Testament

“A covenant differs from a contract almost as much as marriage differs from prostitution.”
― Scott Hahn, Hail, Holy Queen: The Mother of God in the Word of God

“10 Then the disciples came and said to him, "Why do you speak to them in parables?" 11And he answered them, "To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.”
― Scott Hahn, Ignatius Catholic Study Bible: New Testament