Chaput Quotes

#1. We're Catholics before we're Democrats. We're Catholics before we're Republicans. We're even Catholics before we're Americans, because we know that God has a demand on us prior to any government demand on us. And this has been the story of the martyrs through the centuries.

Charles J. Chaput

#2. The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories.

C. G. Jung

#3. I guess what we do in life is like the stars in the sky, we just reflect back the love that God gave us ...

Phil Mitchell

#4. Where did you learn to ride anyway? Disasters-R-Us? (Tory)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#5. [L]ike the lake, my serenity is rippled but not ruffled.

Henry David Thoreau

#6. I am a closet toy freak. I started chasing after some things as far as Star Wars toys - some very rare stuff.

Rick Springfield

#7. Religion is to democracy as a bridle is to a horse. Religion moderates democracy because it appeals to an authority higher than democracy itself.5 But

Charles J. Chaput

#8. The Christian ministry is difficult, and we must not be lazy or trite. However, we often place burdens upon ourselves and make demands upon ourselves that are not according to the will of God. The more I know God and understand His perfect work on my behalf, the more I am able to rest.

Paul Washer

#9. I am the first Egyptian civilian president elected democratically, freely, following a great, peaceful revolution.

Mohammed Morsi

#10. If they don't believe what the Church teaches, they're not really Catholic

Charles Chaput

#11. Creation is more than an accident of dead matter. It's a romance. It has purpose. It sings of the Living God. It bears his signature.

Charles J. Chaput

#12. I want to stress again the importance of really living what we claim to believe. That needs to be a priority-not just in our personal and family lives but in our churches, our political choices, our business dealings, our treatment of the poor; in other words, in everything we do.

Charles J. Chaput

#13. Even in the fiercest battles the Butterflies and Bee's still kiss the flowers.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#14. community, which

Malcolm Gladwell

#15. It is better to agree with a "wrong" idea than to press a "right" idea on other people.

Frederick Lenz

#16. We are not disturbed by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens to us.

Epictetus

#17. Evil preaches tolerance until it is dominant, then it tries to silence good.

Charles J. Chaput

#18. Tolerance is not a Christian value. Charity, justice, mercy, prudence, honesty
these are Christian values.

Charles J. Chaput

#19. I knew I had to go out and perform. I had a lot of fans watching!

LaDainian Tomlinson