Religious Quote: Joseph Ratzinger

A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society.
Joseph Ratzinger

Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia.
Joseph Ratzinger

Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards.
Joseph Ratzinger

The wrath of God is a way of saying that I have been living in a way that is contrary to the love that is God. Anyone who begins to live and grow away from God, who lives away from what is good, is turning his life toward wrath.
Joseph Ratzinger

To me, its seems necessary to rediscover - and the energy to do so exists - that even the political and economic spheres need moral responsibility, a responsibility that is born in man's heart and, in the end, has to do with the presence or absence of God.
Joseph Ratzinger

The Cross is the approbation of our existence, not in words, but in an act so completely radical that it caused God to become flesh and pierced this flesh to the quick; that, to God, it was worth the death of his incarnate Son.
Joseph Ratzinger

We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires.
Joseph Ratzinger

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Joseph Ratzinger

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

A Wintry Scene


Author's Note- This is just a short little scene that I created based off of winter. We did this in Language Arts for our bellwork. Look for some figurative language as you read this short story.  

Oh, the wintry snow. How the color of its soft flakes is as calming as a the ocean blue. Snow adds delight and happiness into winter, when the children make up to a 50 foot snowman! The shoveling makes great exercise for the adults and the kids have an enjoyable time, almost killing each other with snowballs. The snow is as light as a piece of dust, putting smiles on all of the children’s faces. The little snow, with their soft, white hands, creates a quiet and peaceful feeling in everyone’s hearts. When a blizzard occurs, everyone is inside, enjoying a nice, warm, hot cup of coco, and relaxing by the calming fire. When the blizzard is over, the children run back outside, as fast as lightning, to restart their fabulous day in the white, fluffy snow. The parents watch their children run around like wild dogs and chasing each other in the snow like a dog chasing his tail. The snow keeps falling and falling and falling, when everyone sticks out their tongues to catch these small little fluffy flakes. At the end of the day, the children say goodbye to the wintry fun, and wait until the next sunrise to go out and start the day again with the enjoyable sensation of the white, soft and fluffy flakes.

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