Why We're Catholic Quotes

“Evil is not a thing God created but an absence of good that God tolerates.”
― Trent Horn, Why We're Catholic: Our Reasons for Faith, Hope, and Love

“Accept whatever is brought upon you, and in changes that humble you be patient. For gold is tested in the fire, and acceptable men in the furnace of humiliation. Trust in him [God], and he will help you; make your ways straight, and hope in him (Sir. 2:4-6).”
― Trent Horn, Why We're Catholic: Our Reasons for Faith, Hope, and Love

“God doesn’t call the perfect—he perfects the called.”
― Trent Horn, Why We're Catholic: Our Reasons for Faith, Hope, and Love

“God is not present everywhere by being identical to everything in the universe (as in pantheism). God is not dispersed through the universe like an invisible gas. Instead God is present in the universe by sustaining and affecting every part of it.”
― Trent Horn, Why We're Catholic: Our Reasons for Faith, Hope, and Love

“Who Started Your Church? • Calvary Chapel, 1965: Chuck Smith • Mormon church, 1830: Joseph Smith • Disciples of Christ, 1809: Thomas Campbell • Baptist church, 1609: John Smyth • Presbyterian church, 1560: John Knox • Calvinist church, 1536: John Calvin • Lutheran church, 1517: Martin Luther • Eastern Orthodox church, 1054: Eastern Patriarchs • Catholic Church, 33: Jesus Christ”
― Trent Horn, Why We're Catholic: Our Reasons for Faith, Hope, and Love

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― Trent Horn, Why We're Catholic: Our Reasons for Faith, Hope, and Love

“plane. As you look down at the ground two miles beneath your feet and see the tops of clouds passing by, I ask you this: “Are you nervous?”13 Probably! Even with so much evidence that you will survive jumping out of an airplane you still need to trust that evidence. You still need to make a “leap of faith.” This is not a blind leap or belief without evidence. It is a reasonable belief that trusts a conclusion based on the weight of the evidence.”
― Trent Horn, Why We're Catholic: Our Reasons for Faith, Hope, and Love

“deist.”
― Trent Horn, Why We're Catholic: Our Reasons for Faith, Hope, and Love

“Baptism cannot prevent our physical deaths, because it does not change our physical natures. However, it does change our spiritual nature, so through baptism we are saved from spiritual death by being united to Jesus Christ.”
― Trent Horn, Why We're Catholic: Our Reasons for Faith, Hope, and Love

“but God doesn’t call the perfect—he perfects the called.”
― Trent Horn, Why We're Catholic: Our Reasons for Faith, Hope, and Love

“Submit to the bishop as you would to Jesus Christ. —St. Ignatius, A.D. 110.80 • Happy is our sacrament of water, in that, by washing away the sins of our early blindness, we are set free and admitted into eternal life. —Tertullian, A.D. 203.81 • The Church received from the apostles the tradition of giving baptism even to infants. —Origen, A.D. 248.82 • Of how much greater faith and salutary fear are they who . . . confess their sins to the priests of God in a straightforward manner. —St Cyprian, A.D. 251.83”
― Trent Horn, Why We're Catholic: Our Reasons for Faith, Hope, and Love

“There is no quicker way for a scientist to bring discredit upon himself and upon his profession than roundly to declare—particularly when no declaration of any kind is called for—that science knows or soon will know the answers to all questions worth asking.”5”
― Trent Horn, Why We're Catholic: Our Reasons for Faith, Hope, and Love

“Many non-Catholics struggle with the concept of praying to saints because they think prayer and worship are the same thing. Since the Bible says we should only worship God, then shouldn’t we only pray to God? But the word “worship” refers to giving someone “worth-ship,” or the honor that person is due. We call judges “your honor,” for example, as a way of paying them respect, but we don’t treat them like gods. “Prayer” comes from the Latin word precarius and refers to making a request for something. In Old English a person might have said to a friend, “I pray you will join us for dinner tomorrow night.” They aren’t worshipping their friend as a god, but simply making a request of them.”
― Trent Horn, Why We're Catholic: Our Reasons for Faith, Hope, and Love

“In hell, sinners will eternally receive the one thing they cared the most about in life—themselves.”
― Trent Horn, Why We're Catholic: Our Reasons for Faith, Hope, and Love

“It is natural for humans to want to make up for the wrong they have done, but no amount of work on our part can make up for the wrong caused by our sins against an infinitely holy God. (Only Christ’s sacrifice can do that.)”
― Trent Horn, Why We're Catholic: Our Reasons for Faith, Hope, and Love

“Accept whatever is brought upon you, and in changes that humble you be patient. For gold is tested in the fire, and acceptable men in the furnace of humiliation. Trust in him [God], and he will help you; make your ways straight, and hope in him”
― Trent Horn, Why We're Catholic: Our Reasons for Faith, Hope, and Love

“Objective truths cannot be true only for some people. They are true or false for everyone because they describe reality, and reality is something everyone has to accept, like it or not.”
― Trent Horn, Why We're Catholic: Our Reasons for Faith, Hope, and Love

“A truth is subjective if it is only true for the person who is making the statement.”
― Trent Horn, Why We're Catholic: Our Reasons for Faith, Hope, and Love

“subjective truths describe people’s feelings toward the world rather than facts about the world.”
― Trent Horn, Why We're Catholic: Our Reasons for Faith, Hope, and Love

“188 In the Old Testament the word “hell” usually referred to sheol, or the abode of the dead. The Church teaches that after his Crucifixion, Christ preached to the spirits in sheol (1 Pet. 4:6), an event the Apostles’ Creed refers to as Christ’s “descent into hell.” Regarding this event, the Catechism clearly says, “Jesus did not descend into hell to deliver the damned, nor to destroy the hell of damnation, but to free the just who had gone before him” (CCC 633).”
― Trent Horn, Why We're Catholic: Our Reasons for Faith, Hope, and Love

“the Rite of Election, where the Church formally recognizes a person’s desire to become Catholic. The Sacraments of Initiation: For most people, the RCIA process reaches its climax at the Easter Vigil, where non-Christian catechumens receive baptism, confirmation, and the Eucharist. Catechumens from other Christian denominations with valid baptisms receive confirmation and the Eucharist. It is a joyous occasion that celebrates how God has brought his children into full communion with Christ’s “one, holy, Catholic, and apostolic Church.”
― Trent Horn, Why We're Catholic: Our Reasons for Faith, Hope, and Love

“The Period of Inquiry: This time allows prospective converts to learn about the Catholic Church by attending Mass, spending time with the Lord in an adoration chapel, meeting with a priest or knowledgeable Catholic, or even by listening to Catholic radio or television. Above all else, the catechumen should pray for guidance through the RCIA process in order to develop a personal relationship with God through his son, Jesus Christ. The Order of Catechumens: An inquirer who wishes to become Catholic enters the order of catechumens. In order to do this, he is required to select a sponsor, a practicing Catholic who will guide and support him through the process and will be present when he receives the sacraments of initiation. Catechesis: The catechumen is formally taught the doctrines of the Faith and instructed in how to live the Christian life. This period culminates in”
― Trent Horn, Why We're Catholic: Our Reasons for Faith, Hope, and Love

“How to Become Catholic If you (or someone you know) are interested in becoming Catholic, seek out a nearby Catholic parish and inquire about its RCIA program. RCIA stands for “Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults” and has always been present, in some form, since the beginning of Church history, as a way of preparing adults and older children to enter the Church. It’s also available to Catholics who have fallen from the practice of the Faith and want to come back, or who just want to learn more. Prospective converts to the Catholic faith are called catechumens, which means “ones being instructed.” A local priest or religious education director can determine what level of instruction a catechumen needs, but normally they will encourage the person to take part in a process that includes:”
― Trent Horn, Why We're Catholic: Our Reasons for Faith, Hope, and Love

“If you have been away from the Church, no matter how long, or even if you aren’t Catholic, I’d like to invite you to experience God’s love and discover his plan for you in the Catholic Church. I’d like to invite you to come home.”
― Trent Horn, Why We're Catholic: Our Reasons for Faith, Hope, and Love

“Then I Shall Understand Fully” St. Paul once compared our knowledge of God in this life to our knowledge of ourselves when we see our reflection in a dirty bronze mirror. At this time in history glass mirrors were just beginning to be invented and were not as popular as polished metal. He said, “For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall understand fully, even as I have been fully understood” (1 Cor. 13:12). Because of sin and our fallen human natures, we only perceive God indirectly; our relationship with him lacks the intimacy and wonder that it will have in heaven.”
― Trent Horn, Why We're Catholic: Our Reasons for Faith, Hope, and Love

“This mystery of blessed communion with God and all who are in Christ is beyond all understanding and description” (CCC 1027). Paul, quoting the promises given to the prophet Isaiah, said, “No eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man conceived, what God has prepared for those who love him” (1 Cor. 2:9).”
― Trent Horn, Why We're Catholic: Our Reasons for Faith, Hope, and Love

“In his letter to the Galatians, St. Paul said that everyday sins like jealousy, anger, selfishness, sexual immorality, and drunkenness can prevent an otherwise good person from going to heaven (Gal. 5:19-20).”
― Trent Horn, Why We're Catholic: Our Reasons for Faith, Hope, and Love

“The Reality of the Damned “There can be people who have totally destroyed their desire for truth and readiness to love, people for whom everything has become a lie, people who have lived for hatred and have suppressed all love within themselves. This is a terrifying thought, but alarming profiles of this type can be seen in certain figures of our own history. In such people all would be beyond remedy and the destruction of good would be irrevocable: this is what we mean by the word hell.”194 —Pope Benedict XVI”
― Trent Horn, Why We're Catholic: Our Reasons for Faith, Hope, and Love

“The clergy abuse scandal does not prove there is no God or that Christ did not establish the Catholic Church. If anything, the revulsion we have against child abuse shows that some acts are always wrong—no matter what. Since universal moral laws must come from a universal moral lawgiver, or God, this means the clergy abuse scandal should push someone away from atheism, not toward it. The scandal also doesn’t justify leaving Catholicism for a Protestant church, since sex abuse is not only a “Catholic” problem.”
― Trent Horn, Why We're Catholic: Our Reasons for Faith, Hope, and Love

“Why We Believe: Mass and the Eucharist • Jesus is the new Passover lamb who was sacrificed to take away the sins of the world. • The Passover lamb had to be eaten, which is why Jesus gave us his flesh and blood under the form of bread and wine. • Christ is not sacrificed again at Mass. Rather, his one sacrifice on the cross is re-presented to the Father and through it we receive God’s grace.”
― Trent Horn, Why We're Catholic: Our Reasons for Faith, Hope, and Love