Quotes from Scott Hahn

What's wrong with the world? It's easy to probe the ills of the nation, the Church, and the planet and come up with a grave diagnosis... But it takes all the strength we can muster to stand at Mass and honestly say, 'I have greatly sinned, in my thoughts and in my words, in what I have done and what I have failed to do... Sin is not out there; it's deep inside you and me... What's wrong with the world? I am, because I sin, and my sins well up from the darkness in my own heart.

cada persona humana tiene un ángel custodio, lo mismo tienen las naciones (cf. Dn 10, 13; 10, 20, y 12, 1), y las iglesias (cf. Apoc 2, 1. 8. 12, por ejemplo).

good. A society that gets marriage wrong will not remain free for long: the family is the training ground for the virtues that make free societies possible. Consider especially the necessity of trust in economic relationships.

What we could never become by strength, stamina, and a will of steel—which we lack anyway—we become by the grace of God.

Thus, there is a hidden grandeur in the most ordinary things. St. Josemaria saw this, and he had little patience for those would-be saints with romantic inclinations who saw ordinary life as merely an obstacle to true greatness.

Sainthood does not mean sinlessness.

The Lord never gets tired of forgiving us. It is we who get tired of asking for forgiveness.

Saint Augustine said that the New Testament is concealed in the Old, and the Old is revealed in the New.

The consummation of the marriage is, in a real and radical way, a new beginning—the creation of a new family that is a reflection of the original creation of all humanity, except this time we participate with God. Whether or not God blesses the union with children, the couple has created something new that has never been before or will be again. This participation in God's creative power is the foundation of human society.

In communion with Christ, you and I are members of his body, his Church, together with our fellow Christians

One of the most important roles the family plays is as the first place where young people grow accustomed to considering the needs of other individuals and the community ahead of themselves.

they can still think of their daily work as an offering, their desk or anvil or stovetop as an "altar" to God, and they can still offer their work

Spreading the love of Jesus Christ is a duty of all Christians. We can't keep our faith unless we give it away.

We draw strength from one another

To be a father means above all to be at the service of life and growth

All human societies eventually take on the form and structure of the families that comprise them. A disintegrating culture of marriage will lead to a disintegrating society. But you don't have to take my word for it. Just look around.

Nisbet recognized that communities that serve important social functions in our lives, such as families and parishes and social clubs, give structure to our day-to-day living, and thus contribute to our identity. But when the functions of these communities fade or are replaced, such as by the government, their strength as identity-forming institutions fades as well.

God has loved us first, and he has made us for himself. He "desires" our love, and so he leaves us free, for true love cannot be coerced.

It would be more accurate to say that human fatherhood is metaphorical, a temporal sign of an eternal reality. God's fatherhood is true fatherhood in the truest sense.

From the beginning God created us with that radical freedom: to choose him, or to choose ourselves instead.

Once we have embraced sin in this way and rejected our covenant with God, only a calamity can save us.

All of us are called to share God's life, and we must face our ordeal and choose God freely.

The second-century Letter to Diognetus put it beautifully: "As the soul is in the body, so Christians are in the world. The soul is dispersed through all the members of the body, and Christians are scattered through all the cities of the world…. The invisible soul is guarded by the visible body, and Christians are known indeed to be in the world, but their godliness remains invisible.

Inerrancy is our guarantee that the words and deeds of God found in the Bible are unified and true, declaring with one voice the wonders of his saving love.