Tag: power
Daily Catholic Quote from St. Thomas Becket
St. Thomas Becket said this to a friend on his way to ordination: “Hereafter, I want you to tell me, candidly and in secret, what people are saying about me. And if you see anything in me that you regard as a fault, feel free to tell me in private. For from now on, people [...]
Daily Quote from St. John Chrysostom
“Priests have received a power which God has given neither to angels nor to archangels. It was said to them: ‘Whatsoever you shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatsoever you shall loose, shall be loosed.’ Temporal rulers have indeed the power of binding; but they can only bind the body. Priests, [...]
Daily Quote from Blessed John Paul II
To claim the right to abortion, infanticide and euthanasia, and to recognize that right in law, means to attribute to human freedom a perverse and evil significance: that of an absolute power over others and against others. This is the death of true freedom… – Pope John Paul II (“The Gospel of Life,” No. 20) [...]
Daily Quote from Dr. Peter Kreeft
I strongly suspect that if we saw all the difference even the tiniest of our prayers to God make, and all the people those little prayers were destined to affect, and all the consequences of those effects down through the centuries, we would be so paralyzed with awe at the power of prayer that we [...]
An Encounter with Jesus
Jesus realized that power had gone out from him. He turned around in the crowd and asked, “Who touched my clothes?” The woman had suffered so much. Outcast. Shunned. Hurting. Bleeding. She had exhausted her savings in her attempts to find a cure. Treatments had been rough; she had suffered under her doctors and yet [...]
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