Anthony Mary Claret Quotes
Christian perfection consists in three things: praying heroically, working heroically, and suffering heroically.
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My family background was deeply Christian.
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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.
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I was baptized a Baptist, but I'm just Christian, as far as I'm concerned. I could go in any church, doesn't matter if it's Baptist, Protestant, Episcopal, or Catholic.
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It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful... it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself.
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So many Christian leaders have been so tepid or downright silent on the advance of the homosexual agenda.
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Whatever their defects, Christian fundamentalists have lived peacefully among us in America for several hundred years.
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People were already beginning to forget, what horrible suffering the war had brought them. I did not want to cause fear and panic, but to let people know how dreadful war is and so to stimulate people's powers of resistance.
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I'm attracted to artists like Frida Kahlo, because her work was her life, her questions, her outrage, her suffering, her pain. Everything is in her work.
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It is always open season on Christian and on white folks because they are the group you can kick and you can get away with it. It is politically correct.
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Forced labor affects the most vulnerable and least protected people, perpetuating a vicious cycle of poverty and dependency. Women, low-skilled migrant workers, children, indigenous peoples, and other groups suffering discrimination on different grounds are disproportionately affected.
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It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins.
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Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance. She is a veil, rather than a mirror.
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Astonishingly, if you will have absolutely nothing to do with suffering, suffering will have nothing to do with you.
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You care about the deficit because it allows you to do things you need to do to help people who are suffering.
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Neuroscience has proven that similar areas of the brain are activated both in the person who suffers and in the one who feels empathy. Thus, empathic suffering is a true experience of suffering.
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Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.
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We don't need flowery words about inequality to tell us that, and we don't need a party that has led while poverty and hunger rose to record levels to give us lectures about suffering.
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I was raised in a Christian home and, in fact, my mother led me to Christ as a youngster.
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For the real difference between happiness and joy is that one is grounded in this world, the other in eternity. Happiness cannot encompass suffering and evil. Joy can. Happiness depends on the present. Joy leaps into the future and triumphantly creates a new present out of it.
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One can believe intellectually in the efficacy of prayer and never do any praying.
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Atheism: It seeks to replace in itself the moral power of religion, in order to appease the spiritual thirst of parched humanity and save it; not by Christ, but by force.
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The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction of the vocal organs.
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The spiritual warrior hides from nothing. We jump into the fire, we dive into the ocean. We become the sea.
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Christian perfection consists in three things: praying heroically, working heroically, and suffering heroically.
