Christopher West Quotes

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• In the sacraments, spirit and matter "kiss." Heaven and earth embrace in a union that will never end.
• The Church's basic moral principle regarding reproductive technologies is this: if a given technology assists the marital embrace in achieving its natural end, it can…
• God's plan remains God's plan despite our sin.
• Holiness is not first a matter of doing anything. It is first and foremost a matter of letting it be done. Holiness is to conceive…
• Grace flows through wounds.
• In Christ, man who made himself God encounters God who made himself man. Unrivaled self-importance and pride encounters unrivaled self-emptying and humility.
• If (environmentalists) want to continue to beat those drums to solicit money from concerned soccer moms, they can do that. The reality on the ground…
• If we want to know what's most sacred in this world, all we need to do is look for what is most violently profaned.
• The idea that 'preaching the Gospel' has nothing to do with sex and that 'preaching about sex' has nothing to do with the Gospel betrays…
• Why was Christ so compassionate towards sexual sinners, especially women? Think of the woman caught in adultery. Think of the prostitute who wept at his…
• In a world that has lost a sense of sin, one sin remains: Thou shalt not make people feel guilty (except, of course, about making…
• The free exchange of consent properly witnessed by the Church establishes the marriage bond. Sexual union consummates it - seals it, completes it, perfects it.…
• Marriage is a living sign that truly communicates the love of Christ and the Church.
• Marriage is the most basic expression of the vocation to love that all men and women have as persons made in God's image.
• Marital love is a reflection of how God loves. It is free, total, faithful and fruitful.
• Brace yourself! If we take in what the Holy Father is saying in his Theology of the Body, we will never view ourselves, view others,…
• For those with the purity to see it, a nursing mother is one of the most precious, most beautiful, and most holy of all possible…

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