Scott Hahn Quotes

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If we do not fill our mind with prayer, it will fill itself with anxieties, worries, temptations, resentments, and unwelcome memories.

Scott Hahn
We...sin not because we want what is evil, but because we want what isn't good enough.

Scott Hahn
Down through the centuries, the Church has carefully preserved, protected, and defended its Marian teachings, because to give them up would be to give up the gospel.

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Loving difficult people will refine us. Perhaps only in heaven will our love be so perfected that we can actually like these people, too. St. Augustine spoke of a man who, on earth, had chronic gas problems; in heaven, his flatulence became perfect music.

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As we grow detached from things, we come (with God's help) to master our desires, and we give the mastery over to God. Discipline and divine grace heal the intellect and the will of the effects of concupiscence. We can begin to see things clearly.

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Mary is God's masterpiece. Have you ever walked into a museum where an artist was displaying his work? Can you imagine him being offended if you were viewing what he considered to be his masterpiece? Would he resent your looking at that instead of at him? 'Hey, you should be looking at me!' Rather, the artist would receive honor because of the attention you were giving his work. And Mary is God's work, from beginning to end.

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The Mass-and I mean every single Mass-is heaven on earth. Literally.

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The laws of God, like the law of gravity, do not depend upon how I feel about them. They are inexorable.

Scott Hahn
I was steeped in the understanding that if 'something is Roman [Catholic], it must be wrong.

Scott Hahn