'Faith means battles. If there are no contests, it is because there are none who desire to contend.' - St Ambrose of Milan
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'God does not ask for our blood, but for our faith.' - St Cyprian of Carthage
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'Take away all evil, and much good would go with it. God’s care is to bring good out of the evils that happen, not to abolish them.' - St Thomas Aquinas
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The Holy Trinity, with the Virgin and Saint John and donors by Masaccio (15th Century)
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'God has deemed it better to bring good out of evil than not to permit evil at all.' - St Augustine of Hippo
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A fellow Catholic asked: Who made Jesus' seamless tunic?
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'Do you know that often a root has split a rock when allowed to remain in it? Give no place to the seed of evil, seeing that it will break up your faith.' - St Cyril of Jerusalem
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A fellow Catholic asked: Why do they say that the letter of Jude was written by Judas Thaddeus when Luke 6:16 says Judas son of James and Jude 1:1 says Judas brother of James?
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'Without the Holy Eucharist there would be no happiness in this world, and life wouldn’t be bearable.' - St John Vianney
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A fellow Catholic asked, why did Jesus start his public ministry at age 30 and not before?
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Kiss of Judas by Giotto di Bondone, Scrovegni Chapel, Padua, Italy, early 14th Century
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'As in the life of the body, after a man is born and becomes strong, he requires food so that his life may be preserved and sustained, so also in the spiritual life, after being fortified, he requires spiritual food, which is Christ’s Body: Unless you shall eat of the flesh of the Son of Man, and
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'Every day He humbles Himself just as He did when He came from His heavenly throne into the Virgin’s womb; every day He comes to us and lets us see Him in lowliness, when He descends from the bosom of the Father into the hands of the priest at the altar.' - St Francis of Assisi
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Death of St Francis by Giotto (13th Century)
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A fellow catholic asked, How is Acts 19:45 used as an argument against Islam?
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'To show the love He (God) has for us, He has made it possible for those who desire it not merely to look upon Him, but even to touch Him and to consume Him and to fix their teeth in His flesh and to be commingled with Him—in short, to fulfill all their love.' - St John Chrysostom
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An Agnostic asked, which Bible verse in he Old Testament predicts Jesus' resurrection?
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Rucellai Madonna by Duccio di Buoninsegna (13th Century)
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'Do not, therefore, regard the bread and wine as simply that, for they are, according to the Master’s declaration, the Body and Blood of Christ. Even though the senses suggest to you the other, let faith make you firm. Do not judge in this matter by taste, but be fully assured by faith, not doubting
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Maria Laach Abbey, Glees, Germany
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'They hold aloof from the Eucharist and from services of prayer, because they do not confess that the Eucharist is the flesh of our Savior Jesus Christ, which suffered for our sins and which, in His goodness, the Father raised from the dead.
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A fellow Catholic asked, At the time of Jesus, there were four Jewish sects: Pharisees, Sadducees, Herodians and Essenes, what happened to these sects later on?
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'Blessed be God, we shall find no changes of weather in eternity!' - St Teresa of Avila
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