God loves us, but…
We often confuse unconditional love with unconditional approval. God loves us without conditions but does not approve of every human behavior.
–Henri Nouwen (1932-1996)
God gives freedom…
God does not send us to heaven or hell depending on how often we obey or disobey. God is love and only love. In God there is no hatred, desire for revenge, or pleasure in seeing us punished. God wants to forgive, heal, restore, show us endless mercy, and see us come home. But just as the father of the prodigal son let his son make his own decision God gives us the freedom to move away from God’s love even at the risk of destroying ourselves.
–Henri Nouwen (1932-1996)
Our duty as Catholics…
Our duty as Catholics is to know the truth; to live the truth; to defend the truth; to share the truth with others; and to suffer for the truth.
–John Hardon (1914-2000)
Your gift to God…
What you are is God’s gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.
–Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905-1988)
The Christian will be a mystic…
The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.
–Karl Rahner (1904-1984)
If you are a Christian at all…
If you are going to be a Christian at all, you might as well live entirely for God.
–Blessed Cyprian Michael Iwene Tansi (1901–1964)
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