Scott Hahn Quotes

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

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  Faith, Christian, Spiritual

  Scott Hahn (2009). “Signs of Life: 40 Catholic Customs and Their Biblical Roots”, p.91, Image

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• Only when we cease to rely on our own strength can we discover that God's strength is always there for us.

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  Rely, Cease

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• A joyless Catholic is the devil's best tool. A joyful Catholic is God's greatest instrument.

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  Catholic, Devil, Tools

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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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  Artist, Museums, Giving

  Scott Hahn (2016). “Rome Sweet Home: Our Journey to Catholicism”, p.94, Ignatius Press

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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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  Love Is, Men, People

  Scott Hahn (2002). “The Lamb's Supper: The Mass as Heaven on Earth”, p.154, Image

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• God sometimes gives us what we want so we'll learn to trust Him to give us what we need.

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  Giving, Needs, Want

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• When it comes to explaining the Blessed Virgin Mary, having a lot of love is more important than having a lot of answers. When we come up lacking, she’ll make greater goods out of our deficiencies, as only a mother can do. Whenever we're humiliated and shown our weakness, we should get ready for something better than we could ever plan and prepare to accomplish. Evangelize with joy, then, and with confidence. Know from the start that you don’t have all the answers-but your Savior does, and He loves His mother. He will give you everything you need, even if sometimes you need to fail.

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  Mother, Blessed, Love Is

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

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  Mean, Heaven, Earth

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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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  Discipline, Giving, Grace

  Scott Hahn (2005). “Lord, Have Mercy: The Healing Power of Confession”, p.130, Image

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

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  Sins Not, Evil, Want

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• Love is something worth suffering for.

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  Love Is, Suffering

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• To go to Mass is to go to Heaven.

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  Heaven, Mass

  Scott Hahn (2002). “The Lamb's Supper: The Mass as Heaven on Earth”, p.155, Image

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• IF THE LORD IS OUR JOY, OUR JOY CANNOT BE TAKEN AWAY. IT CANNOT BE LOST...JOY HAD COME TO THE WORLD, AND IT HAD COME TO STAY.

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  Taken, Joy, World

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• If you complain to someone, you assume that it's someone who really cares about you.

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  Care, Complaining, Assuming

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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.

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  Law, Gravity, Feels

  Scott Hahn (2007). “Reasons to Believe: How to Understand, Explain, and Defend the Catholic Faith”, p.9, Image

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• At the root of all misery is unfulfilled desire.

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  Roots, Desire, Misery

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• 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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  Giving Up, Teaching, Church

  Scott Hahn (2005). “Hail, Holy Queen”, p.92, Image

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• To deny the force of divine judgment, then, is to make God less than God, and to make us less than His children. For every father must discipline His children, and paternal discipline is itself a mercy, a fatherly expression of love.

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  Children, Father, Expression

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

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  Catholic, Understanding, Roman Catholic

  Scott Hahn, Kimberly Hahn (1993). “Rome Sweet Home: Our Journey to Catholicism”, p.67, Ignatius Press

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