"God specializes in things thought impossible!"
--Oscar Eliason

"God is not a deciver, that He should offer to support us and then, when we lean upon Him, should slip away from us."
--St. Augustine

"Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation."
--St. Augustine

"Relativism has thus become the central problem for the faith at the present time. No doubt it is not presented only with its aspects of resignation before the immensity of the truth. It is also presented as a position defined positively by the concepts of tolerance and knowledge through dialogue and freedom, concepts which would be limited if the existence of one valid truth for all were affirmed."
--Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger

"To believe with certainty, we must begin with doubting."
--Stanislaus I

"Only a bad person needs to repent: only a good person can repent perfectly."
--C. S. Lewis

"If God thinks this state of war in the universe is a price worth paying for free will--that is, for making a live world in which creatures can do real good or harm and something of real importance of real importance can happen, instead of a toy world which only moves when He pulls the strings--then we may take it it is worth paying."
--C. S. Lewis

"If the world grows to worldly, it can be rebuked by the Church; but if the Church grows to worldly, it cannot be adequately rebuked for worldlyness by the world."
--G. K. Chesterton

"God, if I worship you in fear of Hell burn me therein, and if I worship you in hope of Paradise exclude me from it, but if I worship you for yourself alone do not deny me thine eternal beauty."
--Rabia

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
--Albert Einstein

"God is never late, but rarely early."
-- Mother Teresa

"Evil is a matter of choice. Those people who have been victimized and refuse to imitate their oppressors are in my mind the greatest heroes we have."
-- Andrew Vachss

"Man proposes, God disposes."
-- Chinese Proverb

"justice = when we get what we deserve
 mercy = when we don't get what we deserve
 charity = when we get what we don't deserve"
--Ederlyn reminded me of this, forget from where.

"Coincidences are spiritual puns."
--G.K. Chesterton

"We need not despair of any person or situation as long as we live. For God deemed it better to bring good out of evil than not to permit evil at all."
--St. Augustine

"If you want peace, work for justice.
 If you want justice, defend life.
 If you want life, embrace truth."
--Pope John Paul II

"... I was pleased, and not displeased, when I discovered that the magic figures could be moved by three human fingers. And I was right, for those three human fingers are more magical than any magic figures; the three fingers which hold the pen and the sword and the bow of the violin; the three fingers that the priest lifts in benediction as the emblem of the Blessed Trinity. There was no conflict between the two magics in my mind."
--G.K. Chesterton, quoted from Ederlyn's sigfile.

on why there is pain in the world see:
Why there is pain
by J. Budziszewski
i don't think it can be said any better.



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