Angels represent God’s personal care for each one of us.
Angels are wonderful and exciting, and they have the appeal of beings who will take care of us and manifest God’s personal concern.
There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment.
It is possible to begin again. It is hard, and we never do it perfectly, but it can be done.
My songs will pass and be forgotten. What counts, however, is that I sang them.
People came into the Church in the Roman Empire because the Church was so good-Catholics were so good to one another, and they were so good to pagans, too. High-pressure evangelization strikes me as an attempt to deprive people of their freedom of choice.
The kernel is the belief that God is love and, in Catholicism, God’s love is present in the world. It is in the sacraments, in the Eucharist, in our families, in our friends, in our neighborhood, and forgiveness in the touch of a friendly hand, in a rediscovered love God is there.
God draws straight with crooked lines.
Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life.
I think the only kind of acceptable evangelization is the evangelization of good example.
I think that the core doctrines of Christianity – the incarnation, the resurrection, life after death-these are as strong as ever. In fact, the belief in life after death has increased in this century.
Note the three most important Cabinet positions. Rice said that it was better to find the weapons of mass destruction than to see a mushroom cloud.
There is good news in the data the strongest support for priests is to be found among the younger generation.
I don’t think Jesus was an exclusivist. He said, and we believe, that He is the unique representation of God in the world. But that doesn’t mean this is the only way God can work.
If we get you in the early years of your life and we fill your head with all of the Catholic stories, then it’s very hard for you to stop being Catholic. Catholics are Catholics because they like being Catholic.
Everyone takes surveys. Whoever makes a statement about human behavior has engaged in a survey of some sort.