1. I traded lower things for higher
things (by becoming a priest).
2. On the darkest night, the stars shine the
brightest.
3. Persons die on crosses, not natures. Sons and daughters
die.
4. The doctrine of the faith can never change.
5. What is love? It is
an act of the will. It is a decision.
6. One marriage partner could be the
weight that drags the other one down.
7. The divorce rate is within 2
percentage points of the ones using
contraceptives.
8. Fight the
good fight.
9. The last chapter in the Bible says we won.
10. Private
revelations add nothing to Church doctrine.
11. I have never heard a
confession that was worse than the first one I
made when I returned to
the Church.
12. The Bible, Tradition, and the Magisterium, no one of them can
subsist
without the other two.
13. You can't read the Bible in a
vacuum.
14. How are you going to love someone you don't know?
15. Jesus
taught orally, He did not write a book.
16. Show me in the Bible where it
says, 'Only The Bible' (sola scriptura).
17. The faith is a seamless garment.
It can't be divided.
18. You can educate yourself into imbecility.
19.
Education should lead you into a deeper study of truth.
20. My grandmother,
who had only an eighth grade education, knew more than
many theologians
because she knew the truth.
21. Many children don't know the faith because
the ones teaching don't
know the faith.
22. We walk by faith and not by
sight.
23. Our finite and limited mind is not capacitated to know an infinite
GOD.
24. If we are doing good then it must be GOD at work, because that
guy
surely couldn't do it by himself.
25. When I saw David in his mothers
arms, I was taken back 2000 years and
I saw the Pieta, where the Blessed
Mother was holding her Son after
He was taken down from the Cross. David was
still on the cross.
26. Pride is the cause of all sin.
27. How can
abstract fetal tissue leap in his mothers womb? (LK 1:41)
28. Catholic
teaching is Divine revelation not 'sola scriptura'. (Bible only)
29. When you
crash against the rock, you will not damage the rock but you
will hurt
yourself. (MT 16:18, the Church)
30. An acorn is an acorn, it cannot develop
into a rabbit.
31. The Church does make progress, but not change.
32.
Everyone wants to read Holy Scripture, but almost no one knows how.
33.
Ignorance of the Catechism is ignorance of Christ, just like the Bible.
34.
If we are indifferent to Him, how are we ever going to love Him?
35. One of
the greatest needs of the Church today is defense from the devil.
36. Jesus
was crucified to break the hold of personified evil.
37. You can't put GOD
under a microscope.
38. Doctrine is not optional.
39. Theologians who
teach that angels, the devil, and hell, don't exist have
lost their
faith.
40. Go ahead and try it, you'll like it and you will be like GOD.
(temptation)
41. Playing GOD, I will decide when life begins and when life
ends.
42. The satanic inversion of truth.
43. The reversal of truth which
makes the lights go out and darkness fall.
44. The devil, the father of lies.
The murderer from the beginning.
45. The sin of the century is the loss of
the sense of sin.
46. A litany of evil is often called good, by those who
should know better.
47. They were like sheep without a shepherd.
48. With
this reality of evil, we can't turn our backs on it.
49. For us not to accept
His mercy is a terrible thing.
50. How do we fight this evil? First, with the
truth. Put on the whole armor
of GOD. Take the shield of faith. Take the
helmet of salvation, and the
two edged sword of the Spirit.
51. Gird your
loins with truth.
52. Look to the teachings of the Pope and the Magisterium
for the truth.
53. Faith must be important, for without it, you can't please
GOD.
54. Believe everything the Holy Church has presented for our
belief.
That is faith.
55. If you have holes in your shield, the
devil is a very good shot, and
he will shoot an arrow right through the holes
and hit you.
56. Don't allow the cutting edge of the sword to go dull.
57.
The mercy is there for those that avail themselves of it.
58. There is no
mercy without repentance.
59. The sin of presumption and the sin of
despair.
60. Are there any sins greater than GOD'S mercy to forgive
them?
61. Every time, and for every one, GOD'S mercy is there.
62. GOD
created you without you, but He will not save you without you.
63. Love might
be the most misused word in all of language.
64. If we put on the mind of
Christ, that is the love we have.
65. We know that there is a higher
good.
66. Pray that we are not all talk and no action.
67. If you want to
avoid evil, you had better be devoted to the 'woman clothed
with the
sun'.
68. She is the woman in the first book of the Bible (GEN 3:15), and the
woman
in the last book of the Bible (REV 12:1-17).
69. What do you think
the Rosary is? It is the Gospel.
70. The fullness of truth is in the Catholic
Church.
71. I love the Catholic Church.
72. Do we know what we have? (the
Holy Eucharist)
73. If HE is really there (the Eucharist), how could I
possibly not be there.
74. I don't believe in suppressing the truth.
75.
Truth will not come back empty.
76. The acid test of humility is
obedience.
77. If He went through torture and crucifixion, then how could we
not put up
with criticism.
78. Don't mess with a strong mans bride. (The
Church, the bride of Christ)
79. We need to fight evil, and to do it, use the
weapons we have been given.
80. Just DO it.
81. Jesus took a gallup poll
on, "Who do you say that I am."
82. The drunk who ran into the tree said, 'I
don't believe in trees'.
83. One person had the answer (Peter), all the rest
had an opinion.
84. Don't listen to theologians if you want to know the
truth. Listen to
Peter instead. (The Pope)
85. He did not abandon us, He
is still with us.
86. It isn't bread, it is the Lord.
87. If you don't get
anything out of the Mass, what do you put into it?
88. Everything you do,
make it an offering to the Lord.
89. I asked the little boy how much of his
time he gave to the Lord each day.
He said, 'all of it'. I hope they make
that kid a Bishop some day.
90. The greatest moment in anyones life is the
first time we receive
Holy Communion.
91. We consume Him and He
assimilates us. (Holy Communion)
92. We are receiving the Lord of Lords and
the King of Kings.
93. Let each of us receive Holy Communion as if it was our
first time.
94. We have no idea of what GOD has prepared for those who love
Him.
95. I have to answer to Him if I am too lazy to travel 3000 miles to
give this
parish mission. You will answer to Him if you don't come while I am
here.
96. Theologians say, "Truth, what does that mean?"
97. The thinking
of the world is sick. If you don't believe that, just
watch the six o'clock
news.
98. If everything is alright then why are our young people killing
themselves?
99. All is NOT well.
100. In its essence, the truth is
GOD.
Compiled by Bob
Stanley
March 16, 2008
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