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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Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.
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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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The Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer.
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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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Please continue to pray for and bring attention to those suffering in the ongoing Ebola crisis in West Africa.
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Many of us have a mental conception of what a Christian should be, and the lives of the saints become a hindrance to our concentration on God.
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I was raised Christian after age 5, but I didn't really understand it until high school. A friend of mine invited me to his youth group. There I heard the gospel, understood it, and accepted it.
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When I dig around in the roots of how we imagine ourselves, how we govern, how we live together in communities - how we treat one another when we are not being stupid - what I find is deeply Aboriginal.
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Watchfulness is the only guard against cunning. Be intent on his intentions. Many succeed in making others do their own affairs, and unless you possess the key to their motives you may at any moment be forced to take their chestnuts out of the fire to the damage of your own fingers.
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Christian perfection consists in three things: praying heroically, working heroically, and suffering heroically.
