#self-accusation ajd

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"Without sacrifice there is no love." - St. Maximilian Kolbe

[dathwan]

Catechism In A Year, Pg. 524 [2015]

The way of perfection passes by way of the Cross. There is no holiness without renunciation and spiritual battle. Spiritual progress entails the ascesis and mortification that gradually lead to living in the peace and joy of the Beatitudes:

"He who climbs never stops going from beginning to beginning, through beginning that have no end. He never stops desiring what he already knows." - St. Gregory of Nyssa

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"Handle it. Or it will handle you." - Fr. Gerry Wright OMV

[dathwan]

The Greatest Sin

is not to believe in God's Mercy. The 2nd greatest sin is not to believe in His Justice. And the sin against the Spirit, the "unforgivable sin", is both.

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"Hurt people hurt people, and when hurt people don't hurt people, they break the pattern." - Dr. Tucker (My Therapist)

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"Freedom is the not the power to do what I want. Freedom is the power to do what I ought." - Fr. Mike Schmitz (Catechism In A Year)

[dathwan]

Henry David Thoreau Poem

Fame cannot tempt the bard,  Who's famous with his God, Nor laurel him reward, Who has his Maker's nod.

[dathwan]

Praying With Louise De Marillac, Pg. 58

Plant an act; reap a habit. Plant a habit; reap a virtue. Plant a virtue; reap a character. Plant a character; reap a destiny.

[dathwan]

The New Apologetics: Defending The Faith In A Post-Christian Era, Pg. 236

It's for us then to present ourselves with a humble estimation of our ability to grasp his revelation. For though his ways may seem unnecessarily difficult, they are perfectly suited to our healing, to our growing, to our flourishing. If we are indeed wounded, it will do us no good to be healed quickly and superficially, especially when the disease is shut up within, where it rages fiercely. And so God, in his love, delays the healing by parables, so that, by those same parables, he may heal more deeply.

[dathwan]

Habukkuk 3:17-19

Though the fig tree does not bud, and no yield is on the vine, though the olive crop has failed, and the fields produce no grain, though sheep have vanished from the fold, and no cattle are in the pen, yet will I rejoice in the Lord, exult in the God who delivers me. My Lord God is my strength.

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The New Apologetics: Defending The Faith In A Post-Christian Era, Pg. 170-171

Moreover, as we come up against another mantra, that of "freedom," we need to ask who is more free: The person who can choose anything or the person who can choose what is right? If we consider the success of a musician who declines a party in order to practice his instrument, or an athlete who declines dessert in order to stay healthy for competition, we see that their disciplined decision to override immediate gratification and the think long term is made in freedom and leads to flourishing. So it is when following, a moral code on matters of life and death - the truly free person sees all the options and chooses the right one.

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"All human nature vigorously resists Grace because Grace changes us and the change is painful." - Flannery O'Connor (The New Apologetics: Defending The Faith In A Post-Christian Era, Pg. 100)

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"The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally." - Flannery O'Connor (The New Apologetics: Defending The Faith In A Post-Christian Era, Pg. 97)

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"Defense is an act of reason, but it is a sword. You cannot build with a sword. In this sense, apologetics is not evangelization. The trowel is the instrument for building up. As with all creation, it is the act of love. The sword defends the trowel, but the trowel does the work." - G.K. Chesterton (The New Apologetics: Defending The Faith In A Post-Christian Era, Pg. 89)

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"There is no other case of one continuous intelligent institution that has been thinking about thinking for two thousand years. Its experience naturally covers nearly all experiences; and especially nearly all errors. The result is a map in which all the blind alleys and bad roads are clearly marked, all the way that have been shown to be worthless by the best of all evidence: the evidence of those who have gone down them." - G.K. Chesterton (The New Apologetics: Defending The Faith In A Post-Christian Era, Pg. 23)

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The New Apologetics: Defending The Faith In A Post-Christian Era, Pg. 23

The truth of faith touches, everything. It begins with questions, and it ends with a silence bathed in peace and wholeness.