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1 " and so he could show me how much my life was controlled by fear. "

― Scott Hahn , Angels and Saints: A Biblical Guide to Friendship with God's Holy Ones

2 " To do so is to begin a life like God’s. It is to begin to imitate the “holiness” of God; the Hebrew word for holiness means, quite literally, “set apart. "

― Scott Hahn , Angels and Saints: A Biblical Guide to Friendship with God's Holy Ones

3 " the Catholic Church possesses one and the same faith throughout the whole world. "

― Scott Hahn , Angels and Saints: A Biblical Guide to Friendship with God's Holy Ones

4 " THERE’S A YIDDISH PROVERB YOU’LL FIND quoted in many books on parenting: “Little children disturb your sleep; big children your life. "

― Scott Hahn , Angels and Saints: A Biblical Guide to Friendship with God's Holy Ones

5 " God does not will that any of us should ever sin. Yet his will is accomplished in spite of our sins, and even through our sins. "

― Scott Hahn , Angels and Saints: A Biblical Guide to Friendship with God's Holy Ones

6 " If the end of human law is the promotion of the common good among men, the divine law has for its purpose nothing less than our friendship with God. "

― Scott Hahn , Angels and Saints: A Biblical Guide to Friendship with God's Holy Ones

7 " Thus, for Aquinas, the New Law goes beyond the Sermon on the Mount and the other teachings of Jesus. It is nothing less than divine grace—divine life and power. Grace is the New Law that enables us to keep the commandments in a way that we as children of Adam couldn’t on our own. "

― Scott Hahn , Angels and Saints: A Biblical Guide to Friendship with God's Holy Ones

8 " cada persona humana tiene un ángel custodio, lo mismo tienen las naciones (cf. Dn 10, 13; 10, 20, y 12, 1), y las iglesias (cf. Apoc 2, 1. 8. 12, por ejemplo). "

― Scott Hahn , Angels and Saints: A Biblical Guide to Friendship with God's Holy Ones

9 " What we could never become by strength, stamina, and a will of steel—which we lack anyway—we become by the grace of God. "

― Scott Hahn , Angels and Saints: A Biblical Guide to Friendship with God's Holy Ones

10 " Sainthood does not mean sinlessness. "

― Scott Hahn , Angels and Saints: A Biblical Guide to Friendship with God's Holy Ones

11 " The Lord never gets tired of forgiving us. It is we who get tired of asking for forgiveness. "

― Scott Hahn , Angels and Saints: A Biblical Guide to Friendship with God's Holy Ones

12 " In communion with Christ, you and I are members of his body, his Church, together with our fellow Christians "

― Scott Hahn , Angels and Saints: A Biblical Guide to Friendship with God's Holy Ones

13 " they can still think of their daily work as an offering, their desk or anvil or stovetop as an “altar” to God, and they can still offer their work "

― Scott Hahn , Angels and Saints: A Biblical Guide to Friendship with God's Holy Ones

14 " We draw strength from one another, "

― Scott Hahn , Angels and Saints: A Biblical Guide to Friendship with God's Holy Ones

15 " God has loved us first, and he has made us for himself. He “desires” our love, and so he leaves us free, for true love cannot be coerced. "

― Scott Hahn , Angels and Saints: A Biblical Guide to Friendship with God's Holy Ones

16 " From the beginning God created us with that radical freedom: to choose him, or to choose ourselves instead. "

― Scott Hahn , Angels and Saints: A Biblical Guide to Friendship with God's Holy Ones

17 " All of us are called to share God’s life, and we must face our ordeal and choose God freely. "

― Scott Hahn , Angels and Saints: A Biblical Guide to Friendship with God's Holy Ones

18 " We are transformed from slaves to sons and daughters, from followers of God’s law to members of his faithful family, from people who fear to children who love. "

― Scott Hahn , Angels and Saints: A Biblical Guide to Friendship with God's Holy Ones

19 " San Agustín explica también que el mandato divino «haya luz»
(Gn 1, 3) decretaba la creación de los ángeles, antes del sol y de otras luces del mundo
material. Así, Dios mismo está estableciendo, desde el primer momento, cierta primacía
de la realidad espiritual. "

― Scott Hahn , Angels and Saints: A Biblical Guide to Friendship with God's Holy Ones