Great Quote

[Lady_Love]

“God opposes the proud… even when they’re right.”

(Fr. Michael Scanlan, TOR)

 

[DBT]

“God opposes the proud… even when they’re right.”

(Fr. Michael Scanlan, TOR)

Thank you Lady Love. As a matter of personal examen quotes like these can be helpful. But if they’re meant as a weapon or club directed to posters we don’t like or agree with then it’s far from helpful … for we all know no one has sight into the mind and heart of another.

So I take you at face value … and thank you again.

Dave

 

[Beryllos]

“God opposes the proud… even when they’re right.”
(Fr. Michael Scanlan, TOR)

So true! He knows that we need to be humbled from time to time.

 

[Lancer]

This is a terrific quote…pierces my heart for I am guilty of this more than I like to admit…I cringe when I examen my conscience for the day…in night prayer. Its incredible how pride is so incipient…the root of all sin.

I would add…God does oppose the proud…but never the Truth when spoken …because (para…Benedict XVI & Blessed JP-II)…Truth is not something…it is someone…a person…Jesus, The Christ.

INDENT]
John 14:6
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (RSV-CE)
6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but by me.[/INDENT].

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…so, we have this clarifying command…

Matthew 23:2-4
Knox Bible (KNOX)

2 The scribes and Pharisees, he said, have established themselves in the place from which Moses used to teach; 3 do what they tell you, then, continue to observe what they tell you, but do not imitate their actions, for they tell you one thing and do another. 4 They fasten up packs too heavy to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; they themselves will not stir a finger to lift them.

If the truth is spoken without Humility…and it is not “wrapped” in Charity of heart…I believe that God will judge the “speaker” more harshly than the “listener”! So my bottom line plea…is"… Mercy, O Lord…Mercy!

Pax Christi

 

[Lady_Love]

It reminds me of another quote by Bishop Sheen, “Win an argument, lose a soul.”

 

[Lady_Love]

This makes me reflect on the disposition and humility of Jesus. Even though he was perfect, even though He was “right” in all things, He allowed Himself to be accounted with sinners. He let the scribes and pharisees perceive Him as a sinner by paying the temple tax (which was a sin tax), He was innocent yet convicted as a criminal, He was perceived as a “nutcase” when He made His discourse on the Eucharist. He was arrested like a criminal, He was tried in an unjust fashion, He was imprisoned with no just cause. Lies were made against Him, twisting His words to mean something other than what they meant and men tried to humiliate Him by “trapping” Him in His words, as though He were the liar. He remained silent when He was mocked by Herod to “perform some miracle,” as though He were a means of entertainment, Jesus was mocked again as being crazy when they crowned Him with thorns, spit on Him, blindfolded Him, and asked Him to prophecy to who it was that hit Him. And Jesus who ruled the stars, the planets, nature, and all that is within it, subjected Himself to be obedient as though He did not rule at all.

Jesus allowed Himself to appear “wrong” in order to win the hearts of those who actually were wrong.