Top 49 Scott Hahn Quotes
#1. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. 8Draw near to God and he will draw near to you. Cleanse
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#2. Our Father GOD is the measure by which we know the shortcomings of earthly dads and earthly clergy; for their vocation is to be His image on earth. GOD allows them to fail so that we might seek perfect fatherhood in Him.
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#3. Only when we cease to rely on our own strength can we discover that God's strength is always there for us.
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#4. At the root of all misery is unfulfilled desire.
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#5. You wives, be submissive to your husbands, so that some, though they do not obey the
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#6. He gave our pain and struggles a holy significance, a redemptive power, which makes it a privilege for us to suffer with Christ.
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#7. I was steeped in the understanding that if 'something is Roman [Catholic], it must be wrong.
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#8. St. Thomas Aquinas taught that water has been a natural sacrament since the dawn of creation. In the age of nature - from Adam through the patriarchs - water refreshed and cleansed humankind.
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#9. Thus, for Aquinas, the New Law goes beyond the Sermon on the Mount and the other teachings of Jesus. It is nothing less than divine grace - divine life and power. Grace is the New Law that enables us to keep the commandments in a way that we as children of Adam couldn't on our own.
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#10. Mary is the only possible witness to Jesus's conception and birth. And Luke is a credible witness to Mary's pondering.
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#11. As Catholics, we are free to cultivate a rich life of piety, drawing from the treasures of many lands and many ages.
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#12. 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.
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#13. The Mass-and I mean every single Mass-is heaven on earth. Literally.
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#14. God sometimes gives us what we want so we'll learn to trust Him to give us what we need.
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#15. The Church is the Body of Christ, and as such it is both heavenly and earthly. The Church is the communion of saints, and it includes as members both angels and shepherds - cherubim and seraphim, and you, and me.
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#16. A joyless Catholic is the devil's best tool. A joyful Catholic is God's greatest instrument.
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#17. The effect of our sharing in the body and blood of Christ is to change us into what we receive. ~
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#18. 10 Then the disciples came and said to him, "Why do you speak to them in parables?" 11And he answered them, "To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.
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#19. 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.
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#20. [God] disciplines us for our good, that we may share His holiness.
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#22. 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.
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#23. We ... sin not because we want what is evil, but because we want what isn't good enough.
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#24. If the end of human law is the promotion of the common good among men, the divine law has for its purpose nothing less than our friendship with God.
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#25. The problem of corrupt clergy haunts God's family in every age. Priests who misuse and abuse their authority inflict untold damage upon the people of God.
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#26. Love is something worth suffering for...
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#27. Thus, I repeat, anti-Semitism and anti-Judaism are spiritually destructive and stupid. In the words of Pope Pius XI: "Spiritually, we are Semites." You cannot be a good Catholic until you've fallen in love with the religion and people of Israel. WALK
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#28. If you complain to someone, you assume that it's someone who really cares about you.
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#29. 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.
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#30. Do not be downhearted because of scandals in the Church. Jesus Himself warned that scandals would come, and that the wicked would be judged and punished. We should rest in His promise. We should rest in His one true Church, even if within the Church we find much unrest.
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#31. We are created for the sake of love. When we experience love in family life, it is heavenly, but it is still only an image of the greater glory we hope to behold in heaven.
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#32. The family is the key of Christmas.
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#33. Saint Augustine said that the New Testament is concealed in the Old, and the Old is revealed in the New.
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#34. 15And he said to them, Take heed, and beware of all covetousness; for a man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.
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#35. [In Baptism] [W]e didn't really die. We weren't really buried. We weren't really crucified and raised again. We imitated these symbolically - yet our salvation was a reality!
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#36. 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.
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#37. Faith and reason are indeed complementary faculties that we use to think about the truth. When any winged creature (or mechanism) tries to fly on just one wing, it falls to the ground. In a similar way, when we human beings try to wing it with just one faculty, we crash.
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#39. The laws of God, like the law of gravity, do not depend upon how I feel about them.
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#40. Shouting from the rooftops tells us that many people sitting in church on Sunday don't know why they're there or what's taking place. They've received the sacraments, but they've never encountered Jesus Christ in a meaningful and personal way.
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#41. Proclaim when we evangelize, and it's what makes our efforts at evangelization fruitful.
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#42. Salvation history reveals sin as literally a broken home.
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#43. Prayer doesn't change GOD. He is unchanging and unchangeable. But it does change us, making us more like Him, and thus more able to accept His will, whatever it may be. Prayer makes us radiate goodness.
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#44. If we do not fill our mind with prayer, it will fill itself with anxieties, worries, temptations, resentments, and unwelcome memories.
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#45. It would be more accurate to say that human fatherhood is metaphorical, a temporal sign of an eternal reality. God's fatherhood is true fatherhood in the truest sense.
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#46. If God welcomed newborns into Israel by means of ritual circumcision for two thousand years, why would He suddenly close the kingdom to babies because they could not understand ritual baptism?
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#47. A covenant differs from a contract almost as much as marriage differs from prostitution.
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#48. The fact is, there can be no true evangelization without the Eucharist. It's not simply that the Eucharist is the context in which evangelization unfolds or even the goal of evangelization. It's the content of evangelization. It's what we
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#49. Properly understood, the marital sacrament is an encumbrance that paradoxically yields freedom. The wife is free to grow old and wrinkled without fear of divorce, while the husband is likewise free to become bald and potbellied without fear of his wife's abandonment. Covenants
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