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The Catholic Church did not divorce Truth from Beauty, that is one of the marks of the Catholic imagination; we did not drive a wedge. We saw the two as mutually 'implicative': the 'truer' you are the more beautiful, the more beautiful the truer you are, because they're always together. And that served us very well.
Fr. Robert Barron, http://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=NPqF7ogt7WI
Truth without love is cruelty and love without truth is a lie.
Barbara McGuigan
Without truth, charity (love) slides into sentimentalism. Love becomes an empty shell to be filled arbitrarily. This is the fatal risk of love in a culture without truth.
Pope Benedict XVI
The truth is the truth even if nobody believes it, and error is error even if everybody believes it.
Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen
Deep within yourself, listen to your conscience which calls you to be pure . . . a home is not warmed by the fire of pleasure which burns quickly like a pile of withered grass. Passing encounters are only a caricature of love; they injure hearts and mock God's plan.
Pope John Paul II
There is no place for selfishness-and no place for fear! Do not be afraid, then, when love makes demands. Do not be afraid when love requires sacrifice.
Pope John Paul II
United to [Christ], Christians can spread the light of the love of God, the true wisdom that gives meaning to the existence and action of men, in the midst of the darkness of indifference and selfishness.
Pope Benedict XVI http://www.ewtnnews.com/catholic-news/Vatican.php?id=2590
One cannot say Jesus is only a good moral teacher, because there is nothing moral about claiming to be God (unless he really is one).
At the end of the day - it all comes down to Jesus' claim "I am the Way, the Truth and the Life" (along with the many other magnanimous assertions he made about himself). It's either transcending Truth or the most diabolical lie. Aut Deus aut malus homo. ("either God or a bad man").
One of the things I like about atheists is they do "care" about religion. It could either be the biggest truths of their lives or the biggest falsehood (in as much as they seek intellectual honesty, and not antagonistic just for the sake of it). Compared to the other group who are simply indifferent to the really important questions in life.
Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy, Ch 3. http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/130
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[Indifference/bracketing of religion] is a 'danger' for those who are holding it. Because like it or not we are 'hard wired' for fulfillment - for the ultimate truth; the Truth itself- the Beautiful itself; Goodness itself. When you shut that dimension down and you say 'who knows? who cares?' you are doing damage (weather you know it or not immediately) to your own soul.
[Our deepest religious feelings, impulses] when ignored/repressed [as Freud said], don't go away. They go underground. And they will come up in some distorted way. The most telling of that is 'addiction': [since] we are 'wired' for God [and], you bracket God- you're going to choose some 'substitute' - you just will. Now 'pleasure' becomes your God, liquor becomes your God, sex, power; [when you] take some 'finite' thing and you say 'that's the satisfaction of my ultimate desire', it won't work- it can't work. And that's why we become so obsessed [nor can it satisfy our desire for God] and that's the tragedy of it.
Fr. Robert Barron, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KrkU-XsNbU
[Pope John Paul II] helped us not to fear the truth, because truth is the guarantee of liberty. To put it even more succinctly: he gave us the strength to believe in Christ, because Christ is Redemptor hominis, the Redeemer of man. This was the theme of his first encyclical, and the thread which runs though all the others.
Pope Benedict XVI, beatification Mass of Pope John Paul II