“When we stand in the light it is not we who illumine the light and cause it to shine but we are illuminated and made shining by the light... God grants his blessings on those who serve him because they are serving him and on those who follow him because they are following him, but he receives no blessing from them because he is perfect and without need” NeedsMadeLightCausesPerfectBlessingCatholicShiningFollowingServingGrantsLight God Author:Irenaeus of Lyons
“Charity unites us to God... There is nothing mean in charity, nothing arrogant. Charity knows no schism, does not rebel, does all things in concord. In charity all the elect of God have been made perfect.” KnowsMeanDoeHas BeensMadeInspirationFaithPerfectAll ThingsCatholicCharityRebelArrogantSchism Author:Pope Clement I
“The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in His divinity, assumed our nature, so that He, made man, might make men gods.” MenMadeMightSonCatholicDivinity Author:Thomas Aquinas
“It was manifest to me that there was something in the Roman Catholic religion which made the priests very dear to the people; for I doubt whether in any village in England, had such an accident happened to the rector, all the people would have roused themselves at midnight to wreak their vengeance on the assailant.” PeopleMadeDoubtHappenedEnglandCatholicDearAccidentsPriestsVillageManifestMidnightVengeanceRoman CatholicCatholic Religion Author:Bill Vaughan
“I was born and raised in the University of Chicago area and had an uneventful middle-class Catholic childhood. I had a heavy Catholic upbringing and Catholicism is terrible - it's the reason there were slaves. Mass every morning at seven o'clock during Lent. It's a totally negative, man-made religion.” MenMadeReasonBornClassMorningChildhoodMiddleTerribleMassAreasNegativeCatholicSlaveRaisedSevenUniversityHeavyClockMiddle ClassCatholicismChicagoEvery MorningUpbringingBorn And Raised Author:Chaka Khan