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Luke Mohan is on page 80 of 232 of Christ unconquered
How can the heart be true when reason lies?
Or is it reason that corrects the heart?
Perhaps the ruin of the thing I love
Has wrought such hatred of all life that I
To hatred even of what I love descend,
Despising it for its inconstancy;
Aug 26, 2023 01:07PM Add a comment
Christ unconquered

Luke Mohan
Luke Mohan is on page 97 of 222 of The Power and the Glory
Man was so limited he hadn’t even the ingenuity to invent a new vice: the animals knew as much. It was for this world that Christ had died; the more evil you saw and heard about you, the greater glory lay around the death. It was too easy to die for what was good or beautiful, for home or children or a civilization – it needed a God to die for the half-hearted and the corrupt.
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The Power and the Glory

Luke Mohan
Luke Mohan is on page 66 of 222 of The Power and the Glory
You could trust God to make allowances, but you couldn’t trust. smallpox, starvation, men…
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The Power and the Glory

Luke Mohan
Luke Mohan is on page 56 of 232 of Christ unconquered
Peter there
Discerned the truth that he had now forsworn
And at the objurgation of his heart
He hated that which he had bought, his life,
And wept, and beat his brow, and went from thence.
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Christ unconquered

Luke Mohan
Luke Mohan is finished with Men of Maryknoll
“You’re crazy, son,” the Fire Chief told him. “Well Dad,” the boy answered, ”if Saint Patrick had never come to Ireland as a missioner, you’d still be a heathen.”
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Men of Maryknoll

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Luke Mohan is finished with Men of Maryknoll
he quoted the words of Bishop James Anthony Walsh, Maryknoll’s founder. “Better to wear out than rust out,” he said, and turned back to his chores and his mission work.
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Men of Maryknoll

Luke Mohan
Luke Mohan is on page 59 of 222 of The Power and the Glory
It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings.
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The Power and the Glory

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Luke Mohan is on page 437 of 448 of Theophilos
As long as man prevails on this old earth, he will look up to the heavens, and ask his questions, and wonder, and listen, and marvel, and hope again. And most important of all, grace will be present until the final day. My words may crumble into dust, yet His will remain forever.
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Theophilos

Luke Mohan
Luke Mohan is on page 407 of 448 of Theophilos
As any, father knows, girls are ever a cause of concern, for their protection demands constant vigilance.
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Theophilos

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Luke Mohan is on page 161 of 448 of Theophilos
“…We cannot hang our lives upon a thread of someone’s story.”
“Oh, it is far more than a story, though it must be related by stories…”
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Theophilos

Luke Mohan
Luke Mohan is on page 136 of 448 of Theophilos
Man seeks certainty in an uncertain world, and thus he consults oracles and diviners and would even turn the phantasms of his dreaming mind into messages from the gods. If we live that way, we will soon run around and around in circles, the slave of every phantom our lower emotions throw onto the stage.
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Theophilos

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Luke Mohan is on page 129 of 448 of Theophilos
Was he lonely? Yes, at times. But on the whole, he was happy. He had his work and his family and his collection of medical and philosophical books, which he enlarged continually. He was at the risk of becoming a pedant or a recluse, but his warm spirit would not let him sink for long in those directions. He loved his friends and occasionally drank with them, always in moderation.
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Theophilos

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Luke Mohan is on page 110 of 448 of Theophilos
I have tears, wife. Yet it is men’s lot to save their tears for the night and solitude, that they may retain their strength for others’ sake.
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Theophilos

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Luke Mohan is on page 96 of 448 of Theophilos
All killers kill their true selves before their bodily deaths, and take others down with them before the end.
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Theophilos

Luke Mohan
Luke Mohan is on page 69 of 448 of Theophilos
We experience emotional katharsis when we view tragedy performed on stage. We are struck dumb when we see it in real life.
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Theophilos

Luke Mohan
Luke Mohan is on page 47 of 448 of Theophilos
“There are swords and there are swords. There is swift death and lingering death.”
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Theophilos

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Luke Mohan is on page 76 of 128 of The Rule of St. Benedict
(If a monk were to leave the monastery) the form of profession which the abbot took from him at the altar he shall not receive back, but it shall be kept in the monastery.
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The Rule of St. Benedict

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Luke Mohan is on page 74 of 128 of The Rule of St. Benedict
“See the law under which you wish to fight. If you can observe it enter upon the life; if you cannot you are free to depart.”
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The Rule of St. Benedict

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Luke Mohan is on page 63 of 128 of The Rule of St. Benedict
Idleness is the enemy of the soul.
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The Rule of St. Benedict

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Luke Mohan is on page 59 of 128 of The Rule of St. Benedict
Nothing, therefore, shall be put before the Divine Office.
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The Rule of St. Benedict

Luke Mohan
Luke Mohan is on page 25 of 448 of Theophilos
… where feelings of love are concerned, truth too often dissolves.
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Theophilos

Luke Mohan
Luke Mohan is on page 67 of 337 of Forming Fathers: Seminary Wisdom for Every Priest
The daily rosary is a powerful weapon in the fight for chastity, as is the custom of saying three Hail Marys before going to bed for holy purity.
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Forming Fathers: Seminary Wisdom for Every Priest

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Luke Mohan is on page 54 of 337 of Forming Fathers: Seminary Wisdom for Every Priest
Loneliness is a call to prayer.
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Forming Fathers: Seminary Wisdom for Every Priest

Luke Mohan
Luke Mohan is on page 48 of 337 of Forming Fathers: Seminary Wisdom for Every Priest
There is no progress in the spiritual life without chastity. Sexual sins, even relatively minor ones, choke the flow of grace in our souls.
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Forming Fathers: Seminary Wisdom for Every Priest

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Luke Mohan is on page 44 of 337 of Forming Fathers: Seminary Wisdom for Every Priest
Holy purity protects your capacity to love. It is the art of loving well.
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Forming Fathers: Seminary Wisdom for Every Priest

Luke Mohan
Luke Mohan is on page 7 of 288 of Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men
The boys I’m most concerned about don’t disdain school because they have other real-world activities they care about more. They disdain school because they disdain everything. Nothing really excites them.
Jul 03, 2023 02:18PM Add a comment
Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men

Luke Mohan
Luke Mohan is on page 108 of 312 of The Diary of a Country Priest
I believe, in fact I am certain, that many men never give out the whole of themselves, their deepest truth. They live on the surface, and yet, so rich is the soil of humanity that even this thin outer layer is able to yield a kind of meagre harvest which gives the illusion of real living.
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The Diary of a Country Priest

Luke Mohan
Luke Mohan is on page 107 of 174 of Portraits of Spiritual Nobility: Chivalry, Christendom, and Catholic Culture
If our own cultural life is refined and edifying and not pitched to the lowest common denominator, not leveled down to meet the standards of the most illiterate person in the pew, then we might start to look as though we have been redeemed.
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Portraits of Spiritual Nobility: Chivalry, Christendom, and Catholic Culture

Luke Mohan
Luke Mohan is on page 106 of 174 of Portraits of Spiritual Nobility: Chivalry, Christendom, and Catholic Culture
As a matter of logic, if they [students] begin to think like post-moderns refusing to use their intellects to make value judgments, they will abandon their faith.
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Portraits of Spiritual Nobility: Chivalry, Christendom, and Catholic Culture

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