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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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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In all her twisted perfection she had made me fall helplessly in love with her. A life without her in it seemed pointless.
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No doubt solitude is wholesome, but so is abstinence after a surfeit. The true life of man is in society.
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I represent more Native Americans than anyone else in Congress.
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Christian perfection consists in three things: praying heroically, working heroically, and suffering heroically.
