“In Life of Christ, Archbishop Fulton Sheen puts it this way: “No man can love anything unless he can get his arms around it, and the cosmos is too big and too bulky. But once God became a Babe and was wrapped in swaddling clothes and laid in a manger, men could say, ‘This is Emmanuel, this is God with us.”
― Jesus on Trial: A Lawyer Affirms the Truth of the Gospel
― Jesus on Trial: A Lawyer Affirms the Truth of the Gospel
“Identity without democracy is totalitarian; democracy without identity is weak and self-betraying.”
― Still the Best Hope: Why the World Needs American Values to Triumph
― Still the Best Hope: Why the World Needs American Values to Triumph
“We learn much by tribulation, and by adversity our hearts are made better.”
― The Wright Brothers
― The Wright Brothers
“God is the hub of the wheel of life. The closer we come to God the closer we come to each other. The basis of community is not primarily our ideas, feelings, and emotions about each other but our common search for God. When we keep our minds and hearts directed toward God, we will come more fully “together.”
― The Genesee Diary: Report from a Trappist Monastery
― The Genesee Diary: Report from a Trappist Monastery
“suddenly. “Why do you men have to add to it? Why does our species always have to take our full measure of God-given misery and terror and mortality and then make it worse?”
― The Terror
― The Terror
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