"The Church is our Mother, which means it is an internal voice. It is not a set of external rules. That's what isn't understood about Catholicism in this Protestant culture. It means that your conscience is formed by the Church, but in the end you're responsible for your own activities."

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Source : Source: www.realclearreligion.org

Francis George

#Mother Quotes #Mean Quotes #Voice Quotes

“It is strange that only extraordinary men make the discoveries, which later appear so easy and simple.”
“We've always been a band who's taken forever to do things. After writing 'Persona' I think we wrote about four songs in three years!”
“The test of every religious, political, or educational system, is the man which it forms. If a system injures the intelligence it is bad. If it injures the character it is vicious. If it injures the conscience it is criminal.”
“I don't lose my temper often; about once every twenty years perhaps.”
“To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.”
“Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it.”

Source : Georges Bernanos, Rémy Rougeau (2002). “The Diary of a Country Priest”, p.126, Da Capo Press
“Marriage orients men and women toward the future, asking them not just to commit to each other but to plan, to earn, to save, and to devote themselves to advancing their children's prospects.”
“In my heart, I never called one wrong.”

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