God or Nothing Quotes

“A Godless society, which considers any spiritual questions a dead letter, masks the emptiness of its materialism by killing time so as better to forget eternity.”
― Cardinal Robert Sarah, God or Nothing: A Conversation on Faith

“We need priests who are men of the interior life, “God’s watchmen” and pastors passionately committed to the evangelization of the world, and not social workers or politicians.”
― Cardinal Robert Sarah, God or Nothing: A Conversation on Faith

“Unfortunately, it is easier to destroy a country than to rebuild it.”
― Cardinal Robert Sarah, God or Nothing: A Conversation on Faith

“The most important moments in life are the hours of prayer and adoration. They give birth to a human being, fashion our true identity; they root our existence in mystery.”
― Robert Sarah, God or Nothing: A Conversation on Faith

“Soviet Communism showed how possible it was to lead mankind into misery while promising absolute equality.”
― Cardinal Robert Sarah, God or Nothing: A Conversation on Faith

“Today all our freedoms are threatened. Economic, political, and media pressures never cease to diminish the connection between liberty and truth.”
― Cardinal Robert Sarah, God or Nothing: A Conversation on Faith

“Relativism is a widespread evil, and it is not easy to combat it. The task becomes more complex inasmuch as it arbitrarily serves as a sort of charter for a way of communal life. Relativism attempts to complete the process of the social disappearance of God. It guides mankind with an attractive logic that proves to be a perverse totalitarian system.”
― Cardinal Robert Sarah, God or Nothing: A Conversation on Faith

“God is still calling as many men as in the past; it is the men whose hearing is not what it used to be.”
― Cardinal Robert Sarah, God or Nothing: A Conversation on Faith

“If man claims to adapt the liturgy to his era, to transform it to suit the circumstances, divine worship dies. The development of some liturgical symbols is necessary sometimes; however, if man goes so far as to confuse the temporal and the eternal, he turns his back on the essential justification for the liturgy.”
― Robert Sarah, God or Nothing: A Conversation on Faith

“While Christians are dying for their faith and their fidelity to Jesus, in the West, men of the Church are trying to reduce the requirements of the Gospel to a minimum. We”
― Robert Sarah, God or Nothing: A Conversation on Faith

“Saint John of the Cross exhorts us to be constantly in prayer and adoration in the presence of God, so as to arm ourselves against activism, especially of the ideological sort, which produces nothing lasting that can raise us up to God. He wrote in his Spiritual Canticle: “Let those, then, who are singularly active, who think they can win the world with their preaching and exterior works, observe here that they would profit the Church and please God much more, not to mention the good example they would give, were they to spend at least half of this time with God in prayer, even though they may not have reached a prayer as sublime as this. They would then certainly accomplish more, with less labor, by one work than they otherwise would by a thousand. For their prayer they would merit this result, and themselves be spiritually strengthened. Without prayer, they would do a great deal of hammering but accomplish little, and sometimes nothing, and even at times cause harm.”4”
― Robert Sarah, God or Nothing: A Conversation on Faith

“Mankind has never been so rich, yet it reaches astounding heights of moral and spiritual destitution because of the poverty of our interpersonal relationships and the globalization of indifference.”
― Cardinal Robert Sarah, God or Nothing: A Conversation on Faith

“the real scandal is not the existence of sinners, for mercy and forgiveness always exist precisely for them, but rather the confusion between good and evil caused by Catholic shepherds. If men who are consecrated to God are no longer capable of understanding the radical nature of the Gospel message and seek to anaesthetize it, we will be going the wrong way. For that is the real failure of mercy. While”
― Robert Sarah, God or Nothing: A Conversation on Faith

“If we are faithful in always directing our soul toward the divine light, we will become luminous in turn, as flowers take on a resemblance to the sun. The”
― Robert Sarah, God or Nothing: A Conversation on Faith

“In your opinion, what would be the best way of summarizing the long pontificate of John Paul II? All those very productive years can be traced back to the three pillars of his interior life, which were the Cross, the Eucharist, and the Blessed Virgin, Crux, Hostia, et Virgo. His extraordinary faith sought the foundations for its strength only in the most ordinary tools of the Christian life. Before”
― Robert Sarah, God or Nothing: A Conversation on Faith

“African philosophy declares: “Man is nothing without woman, woman is nothing without man, and the two are nothing without a third element, which is the child.” Fundamentally, the African view of man is trinitarian.”
― Cardinal Robert Sarah, God or Nothing: A Conversation on Faith

“In my life, God has done everything; for my part, I just wanted to pray.”
― Robert Sarah, God or Nothing: A Conversation on Faith

“The only way to win this great combat is union with God. Christians will never succeed in overcoming the challenges of the world by appealing to political tools, human rights, or respect for religious liberty. The only true rick for the baptized is prayer and the encounter with Jesus Christ.”
― Robert Sarah, God or Nothing: A Conversation on Faith

“There is never any more authentic relation with God than in an encounter with the poor. For this is the source of life in God: poverty. Our”
― Robert Sarah, God or Nothing: A Conversation on Faith

“True charity is neither almsgiving nor humanistic solidarity nor a form of philanthropy: charity is the expression of God and an extension of Christ’s presence in our world. Charity is not an ad hoc function but the inmost nature of the Church, intima Ecclesiae natura. It urges us to evangelize; to put it simply, the Church reveals the Love of God. Often the absence of God is the deepest root of human suffering. And so the Church gives the Love of God to all. Consequently, a Christian cannot perform acts of charity only for his brethren in Christ, but must do so for all men without any distinction. What”
― Robert Sarah, God or Nothing: A Conversation on Faith

“Although there were events that made me sad, they were never anything but small wounds that never shook my love for God. I remained faithful because I truly loved God as much as a poor sinner can love him, given his own limitations. In my heart I always had the assurance that God loved me. In our lives, everything is the gift of his Love. How then could I remain indifferent to such a great mystery? How could I not respond to the Love of the heavenly Father by dedicating my whole life to him? On”
― Robert Sarah, God or Nothing: A Conversation on Faith

“The Church opens herself to the world, not in order to win men for an institution with its own claims to power, but in order to lead them to themselves by leading them to him of whom each person can say with Saint Augustine: he is closer to me than I am to myself (cf. Confessions, III, 6, 11). He who is infinitely above me is yet”
― Cardinal Robert Sarah, God or Nothing: A Conversation on Faith

“History has shown that, when the Church becomes less worldly, her missionary witness shines more brightly.”
― Cardinal Robert Sarah, God or Nothing: A Conversation on Faith

“would like to quote also words by Paul VI, spoke on June 29, 1972, during a Mass at Saint Peter’s Basilica. The pope did not hide his pain and anguish: “Given the situation in the Church today, we have the impression that through some cracks in the wall the smoke of Satan has entered the temple of God: it is doubt, uncertainty, questioning, dissatisfaction, confrontation. There is no confidence in the Church. Instead people put their trust in the first secular prophet who comes along to talk to us about a newspaper editorial or a social movement, and they run after him to ask him whether he has the formula for true life, ignoring the fact that we already have it, that we are the owners of that formula.”
― Cardinal Robert Sarah, God or Nothing: A Conversation on Faith

“Today gender theory seems to be toying with this same illusory battle for equality. The dream, the illusion, and the artificial paradises very quickly turn into a nightmare. Man and woman form a unity in love; the denial of their differences is a destructive utopia, a deadly impulse born in a world cut off from God.”
― Cardinal Robert Sarah, God or Nothing: A Conversation on Faith

“Contemplation leads us toward the divine in an irreversible movement. The man who contemplates and encounters his Creator will never be the same again: he may fall a hundred times, sin a hundred times, deny God a hundred times, but a part of his soul has already arrived in heaven definitively.”
― Robert Sarah, God or Nothing: A Conversation on Faith

“Man is not born to manage his bank account; he is born to find God and to love his neighbor.”
― Robert Sarah, God or Nothing: A Conversation on Faith

“Stat Crux, dum volvitur orbis” (Only the Cross stands, and the world revolves around it). Calvary is the highest point in the world, from which we can see everything with new eyes, the eyes of faith, love, and martyrdom: the eyes of Christ. In”
― Robert Sarah, God or Nothing: A Conversation on Faith

“international statistics on abortions are horrifying. Worldwide, in 2014, around one pregnancy out of four was voluntarily interrupted. That means a little more than forty million abortions in just one year. What makes this figure even more ghastly is that the “right to abortion”, that is, legal permission to kill an innocent baby, fortunately remains very limited in three-quarters of the countries in the world. During the Extraordinary Synod on the Family, in October 2014, Archbishop Paul Bùi Van Doc of Thành-Phô Hô Chi Minh, explained to us that the most tragic case in the world was Vietnam. Indeed, this country performs 1,600,000 abortions per year, 300,000 of them on young women between the ages of fifteen and nineteen. This is a real catastrophe for the country. In France, 220,000 elective abortions are performed each year, which is one abortion for every three births. A”
― Robert Sarah, God or Nothing: A Conversation on Faith

“How can we not thank Paul VI for the courage he had in issuing the encyclical Humanae vitae? This document was prophetic in developing a morality that could defend human life. Despite many pressures within the Church herself, the pope saw what John Paul II called “the culture of death” forming on the horizon. I have not forgotten the violent critiques aimed at him because he refused to abdicate the elementary principles of life. In his turn, John Paul II lavishly produced a very rich teaching on the human body and sexuality. Despite the respect that he enjoyed, especially after his decisive interventions to free the peoples of Eastern Europe from the yoke of Communist dictatorship, how many bitter critiques have not been made against his view of morality? He had understood, nevertheless, that the Church must not lower her arms. By his steadfastness, he obeyed Jesus, who once said to Peter: “And when you have turned again, strengthen your brethren” (Lk 22:32). I”
― Robert Sarah, God or Nothing: A Conversation on Faith