Louis J. Cameli > Quotes

“enabled total surrender to God.”
― Louis J. Cameli, The Devil You Don't Know: Recognizing and Resisting Evil in Everyday Life

“And from the beginning, we have been suckers for empty promises cooked up in a pot of lies.”
― Louis J. Cameli, The Devil You Don't Know: Recognizing and Resisting Evil in Everyday Life

“The five that we have identified are the promise of something better, resentment-contempt, fear of connection because of consequences, greed, and a negative assertion of identity.”
― Louis J. Cameli, The Devil You Don't Know: Recognizing and Resisting Evil in Everyday Life

“The separation of affluence from poverty causes a division of visibility.”
― Louis J. Cameli, The Devil You Don't Know: Recognizing and Resisting Evil in Everyday Life

“Here is the standard for those who want to share in Christ's victory over the deceits of the devil, especially in our contemporary context with its flood of information, its scarcity of truth, and its frequent confusion of the two.”
― Louis J. Cameli, The Devil You Don't Know: Recognizing and Resisting Evil in Everyday Life

“our life project of bringing a sense of unity to bear on our existence.”
― Louis J. Cameli, The Devil You Don't Know: Recognizing and Resisting Evil in Everyday Life

“When accompanied by prayer, fasting helps us to understand our true dependency on God. It heightens our focused attention to the things that truly matter. It moves us forward toward greater unity, coherence, and consistency.”
― Louis J. Cameli, The Devil You Don't Know: Recognizing and Resisting Evil in Everyday Life

“In other words, it would be political suicide to have one's aspirations for money, power, or acclaim to be clearly visible to the public.”
― Louis J. Cameli, The Devil You Don't Know: Recognizing and Resisting Evil in Everyday Life

“fidelity and lifelong communion, it is circumscribed, limited, and provisional. The”
― Louis J. Cameli, The Devil You Don't Know: Recognizing and Resisting Evil in Everyday Life

“They are a felt distance from home, an inner division, an interior woundedness, a sense of burden that leaves us unfree, and a longing for the fullness of love not yet attained.”
― Louis J. Cameli, The Devil You Don't Know: Recognizing and Resisting Evil in Everyday Life

“The drug culture is nothing less than the demonic powers in high gear.”
― Louis J. Cameli, The Devil You Don't Know: Recognizing and Resisting Evil in Everyday Life

“The difficulty of understanding is inherent in the material that needs to be studied. And it is studied precisely because there is an intelligibility, a capacity to be known and understood with the proper and sufficient tools of thought and analysis. Otherwise, there would be no science but just perpetual puzzlement.”
― Louis J. Cameli, The Devil You Don't Know: Recognizing and Resisting Evil in Everyday Life

“The devil, however, is the sworn enemy of the plain and simple truth. Because it is plain and simple, the truth will be known and will be a path to God, who is truth. The enemy will always be interested in concealing the truth with complexities that do not allow us to view it, deal with it, or even speak about it sensibly.”
― Louis J. Cameli, The Devil You Don't Know: Recognizing and Resisting Evil in Everyday Life

“These remedies for division and separation are not exhaustive, but they are powerful—forgiveness, compassion, reclaiming our identity in the one body of Christ.”
― Louis J. Cameli, The Devil You Don't Know: Recognizing and Resisting Evil in Everyday Life

“devil's particular interest in maintaining a dominant position and voice in the economic field indicates that it provides a most effective backdrop for his work of division and the derailing of our collective journey to God.”
― Louis J. Cameli, The Devil You Don't Know: Recognizing and Resisting Evil in Everyday Life

“Although pain may have an emotional or spiritual dimension, its fundamental and primary manifestation is physical. Suffering, in contrast, may have a connection with physical pain, but its fundamental and primary manifestation is in the human spirit.”
― Louis J. Cameli, The Devil You Don't Know: Recognizing and Resisting Evil in Everyday Life

“Nearly all vices are rooted in the Future. Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead. Do not think lust an exception. When the present pleasure arrives, the sin (which alone interests us) is already over.”
― Louis J. Cameli, The Devil You Don't Know: Recognizing and Resisting Evil in Everyday Life

“Today, the jihadi movements of radical and fundamentalist Islam come immediately to mind.”
― Louis J. Cameli, The Devil You Don't Know: Recognizing and Resisting Evil in Everyday Life

“the Book of Wisdom says: “For God created us for incorruption, and made us in the image of his own eternity but through the devil's envy death entered the world, and those who belong to his company experience it” (2:23-24).”
― Louis J. Cameli, The Devil You Don't Know: Recognizing and Resisting Evil in Everyday Life

“According to Jesus, not to cure her on this holy day in this holy place in the assembly of religiously committed people would be unfaithful and untrue. Those in attendance at the synagogue service make adjustments for Sabbath observance with regard to their animals. And here is a woman who certainly is not an animal. She occupies a high and holy status as a daughter of Abraham and, in truth, deserves that care and attention that her identity merits.”
― Louis J. Cameli, The Devil You Don't Know: Recognizing and Resisting Evil in Everyday Life

“what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?”
― Louis J. Cameli, The Devil You Don't Know: Recognizing and Resisting Evil in Everyday Life

“People who have the technical and rational skills to manipulate markets do so driven by an irrational greed, because they could never really use all the money that they would garner through their corrupt activity. It is a case of reason in service of the irrational. This suggests the presence and operation of those powers and principalities of which Schlier writes. They are forces for evil that insinuate themselves into every sector of human life and activity.”
― Louis J. Cameli, The Devil You Don't Know: Recognizing and Resisting Evil in Everyday Life

“The Gospel tells us that we will find our life when we give it back to the God who gave it to us. “For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake, and for the sake of the gospel, will save it” (Mark 8:35).”
― Louis J. Cameli, The Devil You Don't Know: Recognizing and Resisting Evil in Everyday Life

“Idolatry, substituting the product of our own creation for the uncreated God, represents the fundamental form of diversion.”
― Louis J. Cameli, The Devil You Don't Know: Recognizing and Resisting Evil in Everyday Life

“As long as I am afraid, I am inclined to deal with my fear rather than with the truth.”
― Louis J. Cameli, The Devil You Don't Know: Recognizing and Resisting Evil in Everyday Life