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“Speaker Mark Hart warned against cherry-picking Catholic rules to justify behavior.
“Instead of seeking the Lord, we seek the loophole, and then we try to figure out why it goes wrong,” he said. “The church says, ‘I love you too much to leave you in the darkness.’ Even when you’re thinking you’re the one that’s pursuing God, I’ve got news for you: He’s pursuing you.”
Hart told the comical tale of chasing his escaped dog through the neighborhood in his underwear, only to realize that God must look at him the way he looked at his dog.
“(God thinks), ‘Every time I call your name, you run the other direction like a moron,’” Hart said. “‘You keep running to danger, where you’re going to die.’ Sin is death; it’s spiritual suicide. Sin destroys your ability to feel and experience God’s love. The Good Shepherd runs faster (than you).””
catholicnews.com/services/englishnews/2015/cardinal-dolan-other-speakers-urge-catholic-teens-to-live-faith-openly.cfm
I really enjoyed this quote and just thought I’d share it.
“Instead of seeking the Lord, we seek the loophole, and then we try to figure out why it goes wrong,” he said. “The church says, ‘I love you too much to leave you in the darkness.’ Even when you’re thinking you’re the one that’s pursuing God, I’ve got news for you: He’s pursuing you.”
Hart told the comical tale of chasing his escaped dog through the neighborhood in his underwear, only to realize that God must look at him the way he looked at his dog.
“(God thinks), ‘Every time I call your name, you run the other direction like a moron,’” Hart said. “‘You keep running to danger, where you’re going to die.’ Sin is death; it’s spiritual suicide. Sin destroys your ability to feel and experience God’s love. The Good Shepherd runs faster (than you).””
catholicnews.com/services/englishnews/2015/cardinal-dolan-other-speakers-urge-catholic-teens-to-live-faith-openly.cfm
I really enjoyed this quote and just thought I’d share it.
…thanks for sharing