If you think your glass is half empty, you are not wrong.
You are, however, unhappier and more fearful than you would be if you considered it half full.
"There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment.
In his September 24th address to the joint houses of Congress, Pope Francis noted that, even in times of mortal conflict, "opportunity is always present."
"There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment.
The one who fears is not made perfect in love."
1 John 4:18
“There are two ways of thinking and of having faith: we can fear to lose the saved and we can want to save the lost,” Pope Francis said in front of hundreds of cardinals and bishops on Sunday, the Religion News Service reported.
“Even today it can happen that we stand at the crossroads of these two ways of thinking.” He also reportedly criticized the “narrow and prejudiced” mentality of Catholics who cling to religious law out of fear. Often, he said, they ultimately reject the individuals they should be helping.
“Even today it can happen that we stand at the crossroads of these two ways of thinking.” He also reportedly criticized the “narrow and prejudiced” mentality of Catholics who cling to religious law out of fear. Often, he said, they ultimately reject the individuals they should be helping.
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The core purpose of finger-wagging is to confirm one's conviction of self-righteousness.
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The Eyes Have It
"Charity is the power of defending that which we know to be indefensible. Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate. It is true that there is a state of hope which belongs to bright prospects and the morning; but that is not the virtue of hope. The virtue of hope exists only in earthquake and eclipse. It is true that there is a thing crudely called charity, which means charity to the deserving poor; but charity to the deserving is not charity at all, but justice. It is the undeserving who require it, and the ideal either does not exist at all, or exists wholly for them."
Heretics, ch. 12 (1905)
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) English journalist and writer
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"Charity is the power of defending that which we know to be indefensible. Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate. It is true that there is a state of hope which belongs to bright prospects and the morning; but that is not the virtue of hope. The virtue of hope exists only in earthquake and eclipse. It is true that there is a thing crudely called charity, which means charity to the deserving poor; but charity to the deserving is not charity at all, but justice. It is the undeserving who require it, and the ideal either does not exist at all, or exists wholly for them."
Heretics, ch. 12 (1905)
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) English journalist and writer
Heretics, ch. 12 (1905)
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) English journalist and writer
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