Tuesday, July 21, 2015

"One should want to be freed from a passion not in order to escape the torment it inflicts, but because one truly hates the passion itself."

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"One should want to be freed from a passion not in order to escape the torment it inflicts, but because one truly hates [the passion] i...
Friday, July 17, 2015

"whoever despises the discipline of the church, so as to abstain from warning, correcting, censuring, and yes also separating from participation in the sacraments the evil persons in whose sins he does not participate and whom he does not applaud, sins not with the evil of another, but with his own."

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"For this reason, too, whoever despises the discipline of the church, so as to abstain from warning, correcting, censuring, and yes al...
Wednesday, July 15, 2015

"the deserving and the undeserving poor". Did Dorothy Day really say exactly this? "The Gospel takes away our right forever to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor."

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1st century , Jesus:  "You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.'  But I say to you, ...
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"ask grace, not doctrine; desire, not intellect; the groaning of prayer and not studious reading"

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"seek the answer in God’s grace, not in doctrine; in the longing of the will, not in the understanding; in the sighs of prayer, not in ...
Friday, July 10, 2015

"much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue."

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"The case against science is straightforward: much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue. Afflicted by studi...
Wednesday, July 8, 2015

Halalization

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     "Ea ch of these views has problems, but it is the multiculturalist one that seems the least in touch with social and political rea...

"The troubles of the Muslim world, however, are not those of pre-Reformation Europe, but rather of the Reformation in full swing."

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"It has become common in Western circles, infused by the Whig interpretation of history, to speak of the need for a Muslim Luther to in...