Scott Hahn famous quotes

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If we do not fill our mind with prayer, it will fill itself with anxieties, worries, temptations, resentments, and unwelcome memories.
-- Scott Hahn

#Spiritual #Prayer #Memories
God sometimes gives us what we want so we'll learn to trust Him to give us what we need.
-- Scott Hahn

#Giving #Want #Needs
Only when we cease to rely on our own strength can we discover that God's strength is always there for us.
-- Scott Hahn

#Rely
We...sin not because we want what is evil, but because we want what isn't good enough.
-- Scott Hahn

#Evil #Want #Sin
As we grow detached from things, we come (with God's help) to master our desires, and we give the mastery over to God. Discipline and divine grace heal the intellect and the will of the effects of concupiscence. We can begin to see things clearly.
-- Scott Hahn

#Giving #Discipline #Grace
If you complain to someone, you assume that it's someone who really cares about you.
-- Scott Hahn

#Care #Complaining #Assuming
At the root of all misery is unfulfilled desire.
-- Scott Hahn

#Roots #Desire #Misery
Love is something worth suffering for...
-- Scott Hahn

#Love Is #Suffering
Mary is God's masterpiece. Have you ever walked into a museum where an artist was displaying his work? Can you imagine him being offended if you were viewing what he considered to be his masterpiece? Would he resent your looking at that instead of at him? 'Hey, you should be looking at me!' Rather, the artist would receive honor because of the attention you were giving his work. And Mary is God's work, from beginning to end.
-- Scott Hahn

#Artist #Museums #Giving
The Mass-and I mean every single Mass-is heaven on earth. Literally.
-- Scott Hahn

#Mean #Heaven #Earth
To go to Mass is to go to Heaven.
-- Scott Hahn

#Heaven #Mass
The laws of God, like the law of gravity, do not depend upon how I feel about them. They are inexorable.
-- Scott Hahn

#Law #Gravity #Feels
IF THE LORD IS OUR JOY, OUR JOY CANNOT BE TAKEN AWAY. IT CANNOT BE LOST...JOY HAD COME TO THE WORLD, AND IT HAD COME TO STAY.
-- Scott Hahn

#Taken #Joy #World
A joyless Catholic is the devil's best tool. A joyful Catholic is God's greatest instrument.
-- Scott Hahn

#Catholic #Devil #Tools
I was steeped in the understanding that if 'something is Roman [Catholic], it must be wrong.
-- Scott Hahn

#Catholic #Understanding #Roman Catholic
Down through the centuries, the Church has carefully preserved, protected, and defended its Marian teachings, because to give them up would be to give up the gospel.
-- Scott Hahn

#Giving Up #Teaching #Church
To deny the force of divine judgment, then, is to make God less than God, and to make us less than His children. For every father must discipline His children, and paternal discipline is itself a mercy, a fatherly expression of love.
-- Scott Hahn

#Children #Father #Expression
Loving difficult people will refine us. Perhaps only in heaven will our love be so perfected that we can actually like these people, too. St. Augustine spoke of a man who, on earth, had chronic gas problems; in heaven, his flatulence became perfect music.
-- Scott Hahn

#Love Is #Men #Perfect

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