James Smith

“Be attentive, be intelligent, be responsible, be loving, and if necessary, change.”
― Bernard J.F. Lonergan, Creativity and Method: Essays in Honor of Bernard Lonergan, S.J.

“The messengers of Jesus will be hated to the end of time. They will be blamed for all the division which rend cities and homes. Jesus and his disciples will be condemned on all sides for undermining family life, and for leading the nation astray; they will be called crazy fanatics and disturbers of the peace. The disciples will be sorely tempted to desert their Lord. But the end is also near, and they must hold on and persevere until it comes. Only he will be blessed who remains loyal to Jesus and his word until the end.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship

“A day will come when the civilized world will deny its God, when the Church will doubt as Peter doubted. She will be tempted to believe that man has become God. In our churches, Christians will search in vain for the red lamp where God awaits them. Like Mary Magdalene, weeping before the empty tomb, they will ask, “Where have they taken Him?”
― Dr. Taylor Reed Marshall, Infiltration: The Plot to Destroy the Church from Within

“Every temptation comes down to this one fundamental temptation : It is the temptation to believe that the satisfaction of the deepest desires of our hearts is totally up to us.”
― Christopher West