Rexi's Random Quote Thread

[rachael]

[quote name='Apotheoun' date='06 September 2009 - 02:04 PM' timestamp='1252260281' post='1961891']
"God is good; God is just. He can deliver some men not meriting good, because He is good. He cannot condemn any man not deserving evil, because He is just."

St. Augustine
[/quote]
Oh, man. I St. Augustine.

[Apotheoun]

God made you without any cooperation on your part, for you did not lend your consent so that God could make you. How would you have consented, when you did not exist? But He who made you without your consent does not justify you without your consent. He made you without your knowledge, but He does not justify you without your willing it.

+ St. Augustine, [i]Sermon 169[/i], no.13

[Apotheoun]

The fact is, our God Jesus Christ was conceived by Mary according to God's dispensation of the seed of David, it is true, but also of the Holy Spirit. He was born and was baptized, that by His Passion He might consecrate the water.

And the Prince of this world was in ignorance of the virginity of Mary and her childbearing and also of the death of the Lord – three mysteries loudly proclaimed to the world, though accomplished in the stillness of God! How, then, were they revealed to the ages? A star blazed forth in the sky, outshining all the other stars, and its light was indescribable, and its novelty provoked wonderment, and all the starry orbs, with the sun and the moon, formed a choir round that star; but its light exceeded that of all the rest, and there was perplexity as to the cause of the unparalleled novelty. This was the reason why every form of magic began to be destroyed, every malignant spell to be broken, ignorance to be dethroned, an ancient empire to be overthrown – God was making His appearance in human form to mold the newness of eternal life! Then at length was ushered in what God had prepared in His counsels; then all the world was in an upheaval because to destruction of death was being prosecuted.

+ St. Ignatios of Antioch

[Saint Therese]

"The lukewarm do not carry the cross; they merely drag it along." St. Teresa of Jesus

[Resurrexi]

[quote name='Saint Therese' date='12 September 2009 - 07:03 PM' timestamp='1252800219' post='1965494']
"The lukewarm do not carry the cross; they merely drag it along." St. Teresa of Jesus
[/quote]

In what work did she write that, or in what work is she quoted saying that?

Edited September 13, 2009 by Resurrexi

[sacredheartandbloodofjesus]

Yeh, your right the Big Bang really did happen...God said let there be earth, and BANG! there was earth. - My Cousin Carl

[Apotheoun]

From the Spirit comes foreknowledge of the future, understanding of the mysteries of faith, insight into the hidden meaning of Scripture, and other special gifts. Through the Spirit we become citizens of heaven, we are admitted to the company of the angels, we enter into eternal happiness, and abide in God. Through the Spirit we acquire a likeness to God; indeed, we attain what is beyond our most sublime aspirations – we become God.

+ St. Basil the Great, [i]On the Holy Spirit[/i], Chapter 9

[Saint Therese]

[quote name='Resurrexi' date='12 September 2009 - 08:39 PM' timestamp='1252802397' post='1965515']
In what work did she write that, or in what work is she quoted saying that?
[/quote]
I found the quote in Lukewarmness: The Devil in Disguise

[Resurrexi]

"To touch the sacred species and to distribute them with their own hands is a privilege of the ordained, one which indicates an active participation in the ministry of the Eucharist." (Pope John Paul II, Dominicae cenae, 11)

[Veridicus]

"The hardest thing to find in the world today is an argument. Because so few are thinking, naturally there are found but few to argue. Prejudice there is in abundance and sentiment too, for these things are born of enthusiasms without the pain of labor. Thinking, on the contrary, is a difficult task; it is the hardest work a man can do - that is perhaps why so few indulge in it...Not even philosophers argue today; they only explain away."

~Fulton J. Sheet, [i]Old Errors & New Labels[/i], page 1

[Veridicus]

"To be deep in history is to cease to be Protestant."

~Venerable John Henry Cardinal Newman, [i]An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine[/i], Introduction, Part V

Edited January 1, 2010 by Veridicus

[Veridicus]

"But the best of all is to let him read no science but to give him a grand general idea that he knows it all and that everything he happens to have picked up in casual talk and reading is 'the result of modern investigation.'"

~C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters, Chapter 1

[Veridicus]

"For most history is guessing, and the rest is prejudice"

~Will Durant, The Story of Civilization Vol. 1: Our Oriental Heritage, page 12

Edited January 1, 2010 by Veridicus

[Veridicus]

"The Catholic Church, while leaving to science many details about the history of life on earth, proclaims that by the light of reason the human intellect can readily and clearly discern purpose and design in the natural world, including the world of living things. Evolution in the sense of common ancestry might be true, but evolution in the neo-Darwinian sense -- an unguided, unplanned process of random variation and natural selection -- is not. Any system of thought that denies or seeks to explain away the overwhelming evidence for design in biology is ideology, not science."

~Christoph Cardinal Schönborn, [i]Chance or Purpose[/i], (sorry can't remember the page number)

[Veridicus]

"Remember guys, every few years you go to the polls to vote for the next President of the United States and you take this responsibility seriously. But 365 days every single year you are voting with your wallets in the products and the services you purchase; do not take this responsibility any less seriously."

~Timothy Mahoney, University of Southern Indiana Economics Professor, 2001

Edited January 1, 2010 by Veridicus

[Veridicus]

"Marriage and conjugal love are by their nature ordained toward the begetting and educating of children. Children are really the supreme gift of marriage and contribute very substantially to the welfare of their parents."

~Vatican Council II, [i]Gaudium et Spes[/i], #50

[Veridicus]

"The clay became man at the moment in which a being for the first time was capable of forming, however dimly, the thought of "God." The first Thou that--however stammeringly--was said by human lips to God marks the moment in which the spirit arose in the world. Here the Rubicon of anthropogenesis was crossed. For it is not the use of weapons or fire, not new methods of cruelty or of useful activity, that constitute man, but rather his ability to be immediately in relation to God. This holds fast to the doctrine of the special creation of man . . . herein . . . lies the reason why the moment of anthropogenesis cannot possibly be determined by paleontology: anthropogenesis is the rise of the spirit, which cannot be excavated with a shovel. The theory of evolution does not invalidate the faith, nor does it corroborate it. But it does challenge the faith to understand itself more profoundly and thus to help man to understand himself and to become increasingly what he is: the being who is supposed to say Thou to God in eternity."

~Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, [i]Creation and Evolution: A Conference With Pope Benedict XVI in Castel Gandolfo[/i], S.D.S. Stephan Horn (ed), pp. 15-16

[Veridicus]

"Beati quorum tecta sunt peccata"

~Dante Alighieri, [i]The Divine Comedy: Purgatorio[/i], Canto 29

"And His will is our peace."

~Dante Alighieri, [i]The Divine Comedy: Paradiso[/i], Canto 3

[Resurrexi]

[quote name='Veridicus' date='01 January 2010 - 05:54 PM' timestamp='1262386470' post='2028210']
"Beati quorum tecta sunt peccata"

~Dante Alighieri, [i]The Divine Comedy: Purgatorio[/i], Canto 29
[/quote]

Dante was just quoting David (Psalm 32:1) via St. Jerome.

Edited January 2, 2010 by Resurrexi

[Resurrexi]

"Unigenitus Dei Filius, suae divinitatis volens nos esse participes, naturam nostram assumpsit, ut homines deos faceret factus homo."--"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."
~St. Thomas Aquinas; 1962 Roman Breviary, Lectio iv of matins for the Feast of Corpus Christi