Saturday, January 14, 2012

After Confession: He May Be Grey And Gouty; But He Is Only Five Minutes Old


...when a Catholic comes from Confession, he does truly, by definition, step out again into that dawn of his own beginning and look with new eyes across the world to a Crystal Palace that is really of crystal. He believes that in that dim corner, and in that brief ritual, God has really remade him in His own image. He is now a new experiment of the Creator. He is as much a new experiment as he was when he was really only five years old. He stands, as I said, in the white light at the worthy beginning of the life of a man. The accumulations of time can no longer terrify. He may be grey and gouty; but he is only five minutes old. – G. K. Chesterton

Friday, January 13, 2012

I'm Not Religious, But I'm Spiritual; I'm Not Honest, But You're Interesting!

You ever hear girls say that? "I'm not religious, but I'm spiritual." I like to reply with "I'm not honestbut you're interesting!"- Daniel Tosh

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Only The Humble Find God

Only two classes of people found the Babe; the shepherds and the Wise Men; the simple and the learned; those who knew that they knew nothing, and those who knew that they did not know everything. He is never seen by the man of one book; never by the man who thinks he knows. Not even God can tell the proud anything! Only the humble can find God! - Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

St. Thomas From His Prison Cell

I will not mistrust Him, Meg, although I shall feel myself weakening and on the verge of being overcome with fear. I shall remember how St. Peter at a blast of wind began to sink because of his lack of faith, and I shall do as he did: call upon Christ and pray to Him for help. And then I trust He shall place His holy hand on me and in the stormy seas hold me up from drowning. - Saint Thomas More, from his prison cell