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Pride
Dec 11, 2018 2:58:19 GMT
Post by Elizabeth on Dec 11, 2018 2:58:19 GMT
“The greatest enemy of God is pride. In fact,” Bossuet asks, “is it not pride that has aroused the whole world against Him? Pride first ascended into heaven where the throne of God is and debauched His angels; it carried to His sanctuary the torch of rebellion: afterwards, it descended into the earth, and having already gained the celestial intelligences, he made use of them to tame men. Lucifer, this superb spirit, retaining his first daring, even in the eternal dungeons, conceives only furious designs. He meditates to subjugate man, because God honors and favors him; but knowing that he cannot succeed so much as long as men shall abide in submission to their creator, he first makes rebels, in order to make them afterwards slaves. To make them rebellious, they had to be made proud. He inspires them with the arrogance that possesses him: from there the history of our misfortunes; hence, the long series of evils which afflict our nature oppressed by the violence of this tyrant.” - Bossuet
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Pride
Dec 11, 2018 2:59:15 GMT
Post by Elizabeth on Dec 11, 2018 2:59:15 GMT
Pride arouses against the Cross of Jesus three kinds of enemies: the Jews, for whom it is a scandal; the pagans, for who it is a madness; the heretics, who, in order to diminish this madness and this scandal, annihilate the mystery of the cross, by saying, or Christ did not suffer, or suffered only in appearance, or that He is not really a man, or that He is not really God. - Fr. René Francis Rohrbacher
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