“Many who confess their venial sins out of custom and concern for order but without thought of amendment remain burdened with them for their whole life and thus lose many spiritual benefits and advantages.” WholeSpiritualOrderLosesSinBenefitsAdvantageConcernCatholicWhole LifeCustomsAmendments Author:Saint Francis de Sales
“I think the benefit of a Catholic childhood is your belief in visual symbols as transmitters of information and clues about life, whether it's the mystery of life or life in general.” ThinkingBeliefMysteryChildhoodInformationBenefitsCatholicSymbolsVisualsClueMystery Of Life Author:Robert Gober
“One might just as well trust in the "good luck" of a rabbit's foot as to hope for spiritual benefit from a Catholic scapular, medal, crucifix, or relic of an alleged "saint."” WellsMightSpiritualFeetBenefitsCatholicLuckSaintMedalRabbitsGood LuckRelics Author:Dave Hunt
“A Catholic priest, a Jewish rabbi, and a Muslim mullah all walk into a bar, and the bartender says: - What is this, a joke? - Сhurch is the only organization that exists primarily for the benefit of non-members.” WalksMembersBenefitsJokesOrganizationCatholicBarsPriestsRabbiBartender Author:C. S. Lewis
“Institutional Christianity has had clear secular benefits to American life for hundreds of years. It's played both a prophetic role in terms of generating moral critiques of American excesses, and so on, and also a communal role, in terms of building community as the country moved westward to the role my own Catholic Church played in assimilating generations of immigrants.” YearsCountryTermCommunityChurchMy OwnMoralChristianityRolesClearGenerationsBuildingBenefitsCatholicMovedImmigrantsExcessSecularCatholic ChurchCritiqueAmerican LifePropheticBuilding Community Author:Ross Douthat