Fight All Error...But Do It With Good Humor, Patience, Kindness, And Love.

Fight all error, but do it with good humor, patience, kindness, and love. Harshness will damage your own soul and spoil the best cause. - Saint John of Kanty

God, Grant Me The Serenity

God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it's me.

Treat Opponents As If They Are Acting In Good Faith

I condemn no other man’s conscience: their conscience may save them, and mine must save me. We should remember, in all the controversies in which we engage, to treat our opponents as if they were acting in good faith, even if they seem to us to be acting out of spite or self-interest. Saint John Fisher

Our Productivity, Personal Growth, And Our Future Depends On What Our Minds Are Focusing On At Any Given Minute

Have you ever noticed how easy it is to become distracted and spend our time on activities that are either non-productive or ineffective?

Our productivity, personal growth, and our present as well as our future depends on what our minds are focusing on at any given minute.

Since our future depends on our focus, my thoughts often turn toward Ephesians 5:15-17 - Be very careful, then, on how you live---not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil. Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord's will is.

It’s our choice how we spend our time; we can choose to complain, criticize, worry & wish things were different or we can spend our time learning, creating, planning, encouraging & building people up. It’s difficult to be effective & productive in this life if we allow our minds to dwell on the negative. - Anna Gisselle

There Are Going To Be A Lot Of 'Nice' People In Hell

‎'Nice' is a very trite word and there are going to be a lot of 'nice' people in Hell because they didn't want to stand up for anything; they just wanted to be nice. - Father Tony Stephens

The World Is Rotten Because Of Silence

Enough of exhortations to be silent! Cry out with a hundred thousand tongues; the world is rotten because of silence. - Saint Catherine of Siena

Abuses Are Done Away With by Teaching Rather Than Commanding

‎Be assured that abuses are done away with by teaching rather than by commanding. If we make threats, let it be done sorrowfuly, in the words of Scripture, and in terms of the world to come. In this way it is not we who are feared because of our power, but God because of our words. - Saint Augustine

He Who Accepts Evil Without Protesting is Cooperating With it

He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it. - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Fallacies Do Not Cease to Be Fallacies Because They Become Fashions

Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions. - G. K. Chesterton

There is No Such Thing as Being a Good Catholic And Being Disobedient to The Holy Father

There is no such thing as being a good Catholic and being disobedient to the Holy Father. There is no such thing as being a good Catholic and being a dissident when it comes to faith and morals. There is no such thing as dissent from authentic and authoritative Church teaching. No such thing. Those who do that separate themselves from Christ and His body. They become dead members of the body of Christ.

You should avoid such people like the plague and you should keep your children from such people as though keeping them from the worst contagion, because contact with such people can poison their minds, poison their souls and kill them morally and spiritually, and you don't want to be responsible for that. That is not lack of charity, that is not lack of pastoral concern. That IS charity, that IS being pastoral and that IS being merciful. It is not merciful to turn our children over to those that can poison their hearts and minds. That is not charitable, merciful, nor pastoral. - Fr. John Corapi

Wrong is Always Wrong, Right is Always Right

Wrong is wrong even if everyone else is doing it, and right is right even if no one is doing it. - Saint Augustine

Those Who Convict The Evildoer Will Fare Well

To show partiality in judgement is not good. He who says to the wicked man, "You are just" - men will curse him; But those who convict the evildoer will fare well and on them will come the blessing of prosperity. - Proverbs 24:23-25

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The Lamp of The Wicked Will be Put Out

Be not provoked with evildoers, nor envious of the wicked; For the evil man has no future, the lamp of the wicked will be put out.

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Avoid Foolish Controversies

But avoid foolish controversies and genealogies and arguments and quarrels about the law, because these are unprofitable and useless. - Titus 3:9

Don't Have Anything to do With Foolish and Stupid Arguments

Don't have anything to do with foolish and stupid arguments, because you know they produce quarrels. - 2 Timothy 2:23

An Unhealthy Interest in Controversies and Quarrels

He is conceited and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy interest in controversies and quarrels about words that result in envy, strife, malicious talk, evil suspicions. - 1 Timothy 6:4

Do Not Grumble

Do not grumble as some of them did, and suffered death by the destroyer...God is faithful and will not let you be tried beyond your strength; but with the trial he will also provide a way out, so that you may be able to bear it. - 1 Corinthians 10:10, 13

Defending The Cardinal Virtues

The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice. - G. K. Chesterton

No Foul Language

No foul language should come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for needed edification, that it may impart grace to those who hear. - Eph 4:29

Judgement: Shedding Light

Anyone ever say to you 'don't judge me!' or 'stop judging?' You should know that "Authentic judgement is a good thing. Authentic judgement is indispensable to the health of the individual and the health of a society...[judgement is] a truth telling that is honest, clear and direct, that sheds light on things in such a way that good and evil appear as what they really are. That's judgement. - Fr. Robert Barron