Prosper of Aquitaine quotes

No one is sanctified except him who is united to the Church.
-- Prosper of Aquitaine

#Church #United

And just as there are no crimes so detestable that they can prevent the gift of grace, so too there can be no works so eminent that they are owed in condign [deserved] judgment that which is given freely. Would it not be a debasement of redemption in Christ’s blood, and would not God’s mercy be made secondary to human works, if justification, which is through grace, were owed in view of preceding merits, so that it were not the gift of a Donor, but the wages of a laborer?
-- Prosper of Aquitaine

#Views #Blood #Grace

The life of a woman may be divided into three epochs; in the first she dreams of love, in the second she makes love in the third she regrets it.
-- Prosper of Aquitaine

#Love #Dream #Regret

One of the special marks of the Holy Ghost in the Apostolic Church was the spirit of boldness.

I think that if you can't be loyal to the Church, it's best to get out.

I never joined, but I used to go to church now and then. I liked it, because they always passed out plates of money at the end.

It is impossible, Bible in hand, to limit Christ's Church to one's own little community. It is everywhere, in all parts of the world; and whatever its external form, frequently changing, often impure, yet the gifts wherever received increase our riches.

That this is possible may not be denied in a world where hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people voluntarily submit to celibacy, obligated and bound by nothing except the injunction of the Church. Should the same renunciation not be possible if this injunction is replaced by the admonition finally to put an end to the constant and continuous original sin of racial poisoning, and to give the Almighty Creator beings such as He Himself created?

The church is not the way to heaven; the church is the sign that points to heaven.

They (the press) have a hatred of Manchester United.

We do not want to merely “see” beauty. We want to be united with it, to receive it into ourselves, to become part of it.

We are the biggest donor to the United Nations, contributing 22 percent of the regular operating budget and nearly 27 percent of the peacekeeping budget.

There is just one France... one single nation, united in the same destiny.