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American Christianity teaches the centrality of the individual, my will, my experiences, my decision, my heart, my work and dedication—to the detriment of Christ and His saving and comforting work. American Christianity most often preaches
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“The centrality of conscience is not located in the supreme self but rather in submission to eternal truth. Not More’s truth or Fisher’s truth, or even the king’s truth, but ultimate truth.”
― John Fisher and Thomas More: Keeping Their Souls While Losing Their Heads
― John Fisher and Thomas More: Keeping Their Souls While Losing Their Heads
“Very, very few of us come from families in which conflicts are resolved in a mature, healthy way. Most of us simply bury our tensions and move on. When I became a Christian I also became the great “peacemaker.” I did anything to keep unity and love flowing in the church as well as in my marriage and family. I saw conflict as something that had to be fixed as quickly as possible. Like radioactive waste from a nuclear power plant, if not contained, I feared it might unleash terrible damage. So I did what most Christians do: I lied a lot, both to myself and others.”
― Emotionally Healthy Spirituality: It's Impossible to Be Spiritually Mature, While Remaining Emotionally Immature
― Emotionally Healthy Spirituality: It's Impossible to Be Spiritually Mature, While Remaining Emotionally Immature
“John Lennon, for example, is reported to have made a pact with the devil before he and the Beatles became famous. The pact involved a period of twenty years. Almost twenty years to the day of the pact, John Lennon was shot.[198] This form of diabolical influence is usually the hardest to break. There are many factors which make these pacts so strong. As Fr. Fortea says, “The great destructive power of a pact is that the person may think he is condemned no matter what he does.”[199] If the person can be reached with the hope of grace, it would then, of course, be possible to overcome the contract and the diabolical effects it has brought.”
― Slaying Dragons: What Exorcists See & What We Should Know
― Slaying Dragons: What Exorcists See & What We Should Know
“When Paul said, “I can do all this through him who gives me strength” (Philippians 4:13), the context was that of learning to be content in all circumstances. The strength he received from Christ was not the strength to change, deny, or defy his circumstances; it was the strength to be content in the midst of them, to surrender to God’s loving will for him (Philippians 4:11–13).”
― Emotionally Healthy Spirituality: It's Impossible to Be Spiritually Mature, While Remaining Emotionally Immature
― Emotionally Healthy Spirituality: It's Impossible to Be Spiritually Mature, While Remaining Emotionally Immature
“It is critical to understand the motivation within the demons: pride, possessiveness, and vengeance. In their undying pride, the demons have lost all good things from God, and have rejected God in a manner that is irrevocable and beyond forgiveness. As Fr. Jose Antonio Fortea, has seen, “The capacity to love has been annihilated in the psychology of a demon.”[6] Contrary to the demons, man, in God’s mercy, has been offered repentance within this life. The refusal to offer mercy to the demons is “not a defect in the infinite divine mercy” but points to the “irrevocable character of their choice.”[7] St. John Damascene states, “There is no repentance for the angels after their fall, just as there is no repentance for men after death.”[8] As a result, the demons resent men even more and wish to bring us all into Hell to suffer in the same manner as is their own punishment”
― Slaying Dragons: What Exorcists See & What We Should Know
― Slaying Dragons: What Exorcists See & What We Should Know
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