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God or Nothing QUOTES

1 " We need priests who are men of the interior life, “God’s watchmen” and pastors passionately committed to the evangelization of the world, and not social workers or politicians. "

― Robert Sarah , God or Nothing

2 " A Godless society, which considers any spiritual questions a dead letter, masks the emptiness of its materialism by killing time so as better to forget eternity. "

― Robert Sarah , God or Nothing

3 " Relativism is a widespread evil, and it is not easy to combat it. The task becomes more complex inasmuch as it arbitrarily serves as a sort of charter for a way of communal life. Relativism attempts to complete the process of the social disappearance of God. It guides mankind with an attractive logic that proves to be a perverse totalitarian system. "

― Robert Sarah , God or Nothing

4 " Today all our freedoms are threatened. Economic, political, and media pressures never cease to diminish the connection between liberty and truth. "

― Robert Sarah , God or Nothing

5 " Unfortunately, it is easier to destroy a country than to rebuild it. "

― Robert Sarah , God or Nothing

6 " Soviet Communism showed how possible it was to lead mankind into misery while promising absolute equality. "

― Robert Sarah , God or Nothing

7 " The most important moments in life are the hours of prayer and adoration. They give birth to a human being, fashion our true identity; they root our existence in mystery. "

― Robert Sarah , God or Nothing

8 " God is still calling as many men as in the past; it is the men whose hearing is not what it used to be. "

― Robert Sarah , God or Nothing

9 " If man claims to adapt the liturgy to his era, to transform it to suit the circumstances, divine worship dies. The development of some liturgical symbols is necessary sometimes; however, if man goes so far as to confuse the temporal and the eternal, he turns his back on the essential justification for the liturgy. "

― Robert Sarah , God or Nothing

10 " While Christians are dying for their faith and their fidelity to Jesus, in the West, men of the Church are trying to reduce the requirements of the Gospel to a minimum. We "

― Robert Sarah , God or Nothing

11 " In your opinion, what would be the best way of summarizing the long pontificate of John Paul II? All those very productive years can be traced back to the three pillars of his interior life, which were the Cross, the Eucharist, and the Blessed Virgin, Crux, Hostia, et Virgo. His extraordinary faith sought the foundations for its strength only in the most ordinary tools of the Christian life. Before "

― Robert Sarah , God or Nothing

12 " Mankind has never been so rich, yet it reaches astounding heights of moral and spiritual destitution because of the poverty of our interpersonal relationships and the globalization of indifference. "

― Robert Sarah , God or Nothing

13 " If we are faithful in always directing our soul toward the divine light, we will become luminous in turn, as flowers take on a resemblance to the sun. The "

― Robert Sarah , God or Nothing

14 " True charity is neither almsgiving nor humanistic solidarity nor a form of philanthropy: charity is the expression of God and an extension of Christ’s presence in our world. Charity is not an ad hoc function but the inmost nature of the Church, intima Ecclesiae natura. It urges us to evangelize; to put it simply, the Church reveals the Love of God. Often the absence of God is the deepest root of human suffering. And so the Church gives the Love of God to all. Consequently, a Christian cannot perform acts of charity only for his brethren in Christ, but must do so for all men without any distinction. What "

― Robert Sarah , God or Nothing

15 " There is never any more authentic relation with God than in an encounter with the poor. For this is the source of life in God: poverty. Our "

― Robert Sarah , God or Nothing

16 " The only way to win this great combat is union with God. Christians will never succeed in overcoming the challenges of the world by appealing to political tools, human rights, or respect for religious liberty. The only true rick for the baptized is prayer and the encounter with Jesus Christ. "

― Robert Sarah , God or Nothing

17 " would like to quote also words by Paul VI, spoke on June 29, 1972, during a Mass at Saint Peter’s Basilica. The pope did not hide his pain and anguish: “Given the situation in the Church today, we have the impression that through some cracks in the wall the smoke of Satan has entered the temple of God: it is doubt, uncertainty, questioning, dissatisfaction, confrontation. There is no confidence in the Church. Instead people put their trust in the first secular prophet who comes along to talk to us about a newspaper editorial or a social movement, and they run after him to ask him whether he has the formula for true life, ignoring the fact that we already have it, that we are the owners of that formula. "

― Robert Sarah , God or Nothing

18 " History has shown that, when the Church becomes less worldly, her missionary witness shines more brightly. "

― Robert Sarah , God or Nothing

19 " The Church opens herself to the world, not in order to win men for an institution with its own claims to power, but in order to lead them to themselves by leading them to him of whom each person can say with Saint Augustine: he is closer to me than I am to myself (cf. Confessions, III, 6, 11). He who is infinitely above me is yet "

― Robert Sarah , God or Nothing

20 " the real scandal is not the existence of sinners, for mercy and forgiveness always exist precisely for them, but rather the confusion between good and evil caused by Catholic shepherds. If men who are consecrated to God are no longer capable of understanding the radical nature of the Gospel message and seek to anaesthetize it, we will be going the wrong way. For that is the real failure of mercy. While "

― Robert Sarah , God or Nothing