What some people love is not a person but the experience of being in love. The first is irreplaceable; the second is not.
“The supreme being must be unique, without equal… If God is not one, he is not God’ (Tertullian, Adv. Marc, 1, 5, 3: PL 2, 274).”
― Catechism of the Catholic Church
― Catechism of the Catholic Church
“As life goes on, they become not two compatible beings who have learned to live together through self-suppression and patience, but one new and richer being, fused in the fires of God’s love and tempered of the best of both. One by one, the veils of life’s mysteries have been lifted. The flesh, they found, was too precocious to reveal its own mystery; then came the mystery of the other’s inner life, disclosed in the raising of young minds and hearts in the ways of God;”
― Three to Get Married
― Three to Get Married
“The only real sadness, the only real failure, the only great tragedy in life, is not to become a saint.”
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“The Gospels did not start the Church; the Church started the Gospels. The Church did not come out of the Gospels; the Gospels came out of the Church.”
― The World's First Love: Mary, Mother of God
― The World's First Love: Mary, Mother of God
“The first man was unimpaired and ordered in his whole being because he was free from the triple concupiscence254 that subjugates him to the pleasures of the senses, covetousness for earthly goods, and self-assertion, contrary to the dictates of reason. 2514”
― Catechism of the Catholic Church
― Catechism of the Catholic Church
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