Friday's QOTD

Decisions become easier when your will to please God outweighs your will to please the world. 

-- Anso Coetzer

HT Busted Halo

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"The trouble with some of us is that we have been inoculated with small doses of Christianity which keep us from catching the real thing."

~ Leslie Weatherhead

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"Like a good chess player, Satan is always trying to maneuver you into a position where you can save your castle only by losing your bishop."

~ C.S. Lewis

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If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

--Oscar Wilde

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"At least six times during the last few years, I have found myself in a situation in which I should certainly have become a Catholic, if I had not been restrained from that rash step by the fortunate accident that I was one already."

- G.K. Chesterton

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Friday's QOTD: back to school edition

“If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.”
--Pope John Paul I

(Yes, I've used it before, but it's good.)

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If you are not tempted, you have no hope; if you are not tempted, it is because you are used to sinning.

--Abba Cyrun of Alexandria

Friday's QOTD extra

"The only text sent in this class would be to God, alerting him you'll be meeting him soon."

--Br. Stephen at my little Catholic university

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"Fundamentally, I don't think the Catholic church gets enough credit for being a hell of a lot of fun. There's great warmth and laughter in most Catholic circles, a rich intellectual tradition, a vast body of lore, an incredible range of characters, a deep desire to do good, an abiding faith against all odds, an ability to go anywhere and feel instantly at home, and even a deep love of good food, good drink, and good company. All that is part of the tapestry of Catholic life, but it rarely sees the light of day in commentary and reporting that focuses exclusively on crisis, scandal, and heartache."

--John Allen

(p.s. Thanks for the tip, Annmarie!)

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At least five times . . . with the Arian and the Albigensian, with the Humanist skeptic, after Voltaire and after Darwin, the Faith has to all appearance gone to the dogs. In each of these five cases it was the dog that died.

-- G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man

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The man who lives in contact with what he believes to be a living Church is a man always expecting to meet Plato and Shakespeare tomorrow at breakfast. He is always expecting to see some truth that he has never seen before.

-- GK Chesterton,
Orthodoxy,
Ch. 9

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"I can't. God can. I'll let Him."

--from a student paper

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“Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.”

--Felix Frankfurter

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"The Lord knew I lived in a hard town, so he gave me a hard head."

--The Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth,

in front of his home bombed by the KKK.
Civil rights activist in Birmingham, AL.

d. 10-5-2011

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Courtesy the twitter feed of Mercury Falls and soon to be released Mercury Rises author, Rob Kroese.

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Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

--Anonymous

p.s. Remember--Talk Like a Pirate Day is Sept 19th! Blimey, mates! The saga of Pete the Pirate, now F'thr Pete, continues!

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Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.

--David Hume

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Politicians are talking about "Acts of God" again. Why do they focus only on disasters? A sunrise and the birth of a child are "Acts of God," too.

--Fr. James Martin, SJ (via fb, 8/30/11)

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“God has editing rights over our prayers. He will . . . edit them, correct them, bring them in line with His will and then hand them back to us to be resubmitted.”

– Stephen Crotts

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Many people want to serve God, but only as advisors.

--Anonymous