Cure D Ars Quotes

only the Holy Spirit permits us to become aware of the gravity of sin and of the tragedy of the loss of the sense of God, and gives the desire for conversion. But our love for mankind cannot be resigned to seeing them deprive themselves of salvation. We cannot directly produce the conversion of souls, but we are responsible for the proclamation of the Faith, of the totality of the Faith and of its demands.

Evil claims to be natural, and this is the heart of its deceit. Sin rarely declares itself as sin, and the sinner tends to claim some high motive and some pink-and-white complexion for each decay. Each enslavement to sin calls itself a new form of liberation as it tightens its chains. Rare is the tyrant who does not cloak his extravagant selfishness in the titles of altruism and affected goodwill.

The functional defect of socialism is that it is not social. It has not helped the poor man by eradicating the prince; it has only made the prince poor. If it has not put a chicken in every pot, it has removed the peacock from every lawn. It has made liberality a casualty of an artifact called liberalism. Such may satisfy the motive of envy; it is irrelevant to the motive of charity, and in the collectivist bosom it engenders the very greed it scorned.

If one of the damned could just once say ‘My God, I love you’ it would no longer be hell for him.

Lovers think they’re looking for each other, but there’s only one search: wandering this world is wandering that, both inside one transparent sky. In here there is no dogma and no heresy. The miracle of Jesus is himself, not what he said or did about the future. Forget the future. I’d worship someone who could do that. On the way, you may want to look back, or not. But if you can say, There’s nothing ahead, there will be nothing there. Stretch your arms and take hold of the cloth of your clothes with both hands. The cure for pain is in the pain. Good and bad are mixed. If you don’t have both, you don’t belong with us. When one of us gets lost, is not here, he must be inside us. There’s no place like that anywhere in the world.

The priesthood is the love of the heart of Jesus.

man is saved with the world and not from it.

the sacramental union of fecundity and faithfulness converging in the Resurrection of Christ is the reason for life and the cure for death.

celibacy, the sign of our unlimited availability to Christ and to others.

Saints do not surrender to dissolute social pathology. Sanctity itself is the acute contradiction of sham, and its very opposition cowardly. the modernist prejudice does take flight from virtue in the weakest of ways, by avoiding the saints. A psychologically driven, biographically obsessed culture exposes its intellectual pretentiousness by its refusal to acknowledge the psychological and historical phenomenon of sanctity.

On the road of abnegation,” M. Vianney was wont to say, “it is only the first step that is difficult; once we have started we go on almost mechanically.