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“I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.”

Knows Seems Easy Power Impossible Catholic Obedience Discipleship Possible And Impossible Achieving The Impossible

Book:The Interior Castle: or the Mansions

Source: The Interior Castle: or the Mansions

“In the Catholic Worker we must try to have the voluntary poverty of St. Francis, the charity of St. Vincent de Paul, the intellectual approach of St. Dominic, the easy conversations about things that matter of St. Philip Neri, the manual labor of St. Benedict.”

Trying Matter Easy Poverty Conversation Approach Intellectual Labor Catholic Charity Workers Manuals Things That Matter Philip Manual Labor St Benedict

Author:Peter Maurin

“A primatologist told me you can find love in the eyes of an orangutan. It's that old primate gleam that goes back thousands of years and can penetrate the deepest gloom of the jungle. Nothing can deter that gleam, which is why we primates have survived for so long to meet and procreate. In prison, the survival of romance is not easy, but it finds a way ... In Canada, there has been a succession of romances between prisoners and female guards, nurses, librarians, and one Catholic nun who married the convict after he divorced his wife.”

“It is, after all, far too easy to pinch and kick the bizarre Mormon Church; to say it's ripe for satire and parody is to say a Catholic schoolgirl is ripe for debauchery. It's like shooting polygamist fish in a barrel of coffee.”

Easy Church Catholic Fishes Coffee Shooting Kicks Satire Bizarre Ripe Barrels Parody Catholic School Debauchery

Author:Mark Morford

“When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.”

Easy Food Perspective Catholic Stomach Fasting Dieting Catholic Saint

Book:The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)

Source: The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)

“See it's easy as cake, simple as whistling Dixie While I'm waving the pistol at sixty Christians against me Go to war with the Mormons, take a bath with the Catholics In holy water, no wonder they tried to hold me under longer.”

War Christian Easy Water Simple Wonder Holy Catholic Rap Cake Sixty Baths Pistols Hold Me Whistling Holy Water Dixie

Author:Eminem

“It is easy to forget, since the Catholic Church is now the only large American religious denomination whose ecclesiastical hierarchy continues to oppose birth control, that only a century ago the leaders of nearly all churches were united in their resistance to any public discussion of the subject.”

Religion Easy Church Religious Forget United Leader Subjects Century Birth Catholic Resistance Discussion Hierarchy Catholic Church Birth Control Denominations

Book:Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism

Source: Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism

“The way Jesus shows you is not easy. Rather, it is like a path winding up a mountain. Do not lose heart! The steeper the road, the faster it rises towards ever wider horizons.”

Way Heart Shows Jesus Easy Loses Path Mountain Catholic Faster Horizon Winding Up

Book:In my own words

Source: In my own words

“There is a very well-defined procedure that allows the Vatican to raise issues with a particular theologian about something that does not appear in conformity with the Catholic faith. It is not always easy to make this determination.”

Wells Doe Easy Issues Particular Determination Catholic Raises Defined Conformity Theologian Procedures Catholic Faith

Author:Godfried Danneels