Tarek Saab famous quotes

Power isn't having the world at your fingertips; it is having the world at your fingertips and being able to give it up!
-- Tarek Saab

#Giving #Catholic #World

Without the necessary humility to worship, I subconsciously desired to be worshiped, not in a crazy Napoleanic manner, but like a modern-day celebrity.
-- Tarek Saab

#Crazy #Humility #Catholic

There is no point when all the material benefits of the world add up to a general state of happiness. It is the Great Misconception.
-- Tarek Saab

#Catholic #Add #Benefits

Living out one's faith is either no way to live or the only way to live; it's either imprisonment, or the only path to freedom. It offers happiness, or it frustrates the pursuit. There is no half-love, half-religion, half-worship, half-belief, half-truth. There is no kinda-sorta.
-- Tarek Saab

#Catholic #Half #Way

To be a real man is to be unattached - not from responsibility or justice - but from those dependencies that inhibit responsibility and justice.
-- Tarek Saab

#Real #Responsibility #Men

For much of my life I floundered under the excuse of "nobody's perfect," the liberating and over-used phrase that affords guys like me the freedom to pile up sins in a careless and unchecked way. Ironically, being perfect is precisely what we are called to be!
-- Tarek Saab

#Perfect #Guy #Catholic

Some psychologists argue that the idea of God is a response to our emotional needs, but this presumption is backwards. Our emotional fluctuations are a psychological response to our lack of love for God. If God is everything, what else could we possibily want?
-- Tarek Saab

#Emotional #Ideas #Catholic

Any goal without salvation as its ultimate end is as pointless as trying to live forever on this earth.
-- Tarek Saab

#Goal #Forever #Catholic

It's one thing for a person to live his life as a vacuous shell without fully comprehending the extent of his transgressions, but I was guilty of the greater sin; I knew what was right, and I chose to reject it.
-- Tarek Saab

#Shells #Sin #Guilty

The chief danger of the Church today is that it is trying to get on the same side as the world, instead of turning the world upside down. Our Master expects us to accomplish results, even if they bring opposition and conflict. Anything is better than compromise, apathy, and paralysis.  God give to us an intense cry for the old-time power of the Gospel and the Holy Ghost!

And I myself a Catholic will be, So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee. Hail, Bard triumphant! and some care bestow On us, the Poets militant below.

The fact that the Catholic Church has come to an agreement with Fascist Italy ... proves beyond doubt that the Fascist world of ideas is closer to Christianity than those of Jewish liberalism or even atheistic Marxism...

You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders' skirts.

I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don't agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.

Only the [Catholic] Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler’s campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel a great affection and admiration because the Church alone has had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual truth and moral freedom. I am forced thus to confess that what I once despised I now praise unreservedly.

One never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes.

Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.

I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.

First Conjuration Addressed to Emperor Lucifer. Emperor Lucifer, Master and Prince of Rebellious Spirits, I adjure thee to leave thine abode, in what-ever quarter of the world it may be situated and come hither to communicate with me.