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21 " a community is a multitude united by agreement about the things they love. "
― Frank Sheed , Theology for Beginners
22 " Whatever the soul in charity loves, it loves for what of God is in it, the amount of God’s goodness it expresses or mirrors. This is true love, since it means loving things or persons not for what we can get out of them but for what God has put into them, not for what they can do for us but for what is real in them: it means loving things or persons for what they are, and it is rooted in loving God for what He is. "
23 " We say that a given habit grows on us. Really it grows in us, becomes second nature. "
24 " We possess our being, the philosophers say, successively. "
25 " begins, "
26 " The universe God called into being has in it these two great divisions—the world of spirits and the world of matter. "
27 " He was the man. He was the representative man. For the angels the testing had been individual; each angel who fell did so by his own decision. "
28 " the sin of the representative man. "
29 " ...it is by the saints, and not by the mediocre, still less by the great sinners, that the Church is to be judged. It may seem a loading of the dice to demand that any institution be judged solely by its best members, but in this instance it is not. A medicine must be judged not by those who buy it but by those who actually take it. A Church must be judged by those who hear and obey, not by those who half-hear and disobey when obedience is difficult. "
30 " Truth is light too. Not to see it is to be in darkness, to see it wrong is to be in double darkness. "
31 " Either there is a teacher now teaching upon earth, guaranteed by Christ as the apostles were, or there is no possibility of knowing the truth which He saw to be so essential. "
32 " The Lord God formed man of the slime of the earth”; that accounts for his body. And “He breathed into his face the breath of life. "
33 " cats are matter, with no spirit to complicate it. "
34 " to clarify our notion of mystery: which does not mean a truth that we cannot know anything about, but a truth that we cannot know everything about. "