"We cannot allow the problems of the Church to affect our spiritual lives. It doesn't matter if someone's put the knife in your back. It doesn't matter how bad things are. If it's starting to affect your spiritual life, you have to get your mind off it."
(August 2019)
‘Everyone is so worried about offending some human being... virtually nobody is talking about the fact that with the levels of sin that are going on right now, God is offended by them.’
“When you see others committing sin, even against yourself, you should try to make reparation for them rather than harp on the other person's defect. This is what Christ did at Calvary.”
“‘Real men don’t cry.’ That's just hog phooey. It’s just garbage. There are certain things that if you don’t cry, it's disordered. If your wife dies and you don’t cry, there's something wrong with that.”
“Catholic Traditionalists are some of the most immodest people I have ever met, and I’m not talking about the way they dress... because they are in pain, instead of learning to suffer well they have become extraordinarily immodest in their speech.”
“We get the leaders we deserve. I mean, this is the one thing people just don’t seem to get in regard to the stuff that is going on in the Church and all of the people who have kind of gained ascendancy in the Church.”
‘This is a sign that people are listening actually more to psychologists than God, partly due to the fact that modern psychologists have inserted themselves in the place of God.’
“Let's cut to the chase- we are not living in a political atmosphere where there are differences of ideas. We are living in a political atmosphere where it's good on one side and evil on another.”
'The average layman should pray a minimum of 15-30 minutes per day.
Obviously, this ebbs and flows depending upon one’s obligations and state in life... but normally it should be a minimum of 15-30 minutes per day.'
'The fact that we know when the Pope is sneezing today is a huge problem because what's happening is people are just hyper focused on the guy rather than leading their Catholic life.'
“Christ is not only the king of the supernatural order... but also of the natural order. That is that Christ is the king in all secular affairs and his sovereignty extends to every aspect of creation.”
“Most people don’t make the distinction between the fact that God loves all of us and the fact that there's some people he's pleased with and some people he's not, and anybody who's a parent of a teenager knows that distinction.”
‘There’s a failure to recognize that the career is there for the family, and not the family for the career- that's the most danger you see with guys with workaholism.’
“If you are unwilling to embrace all of the suffering necessary to become sanctified and perfect, you are willing to allow the works of Satan to persist in your own life.”
‘A lot of the Protestants today are uncatechized even in their own religion. So, a lot of times they are actually more open if you're just rational, calm, that they see you’re a normal person, that you just want the best for them.’
"All you have to do is look at Bill Gates and realize you can be a complete moron and still be a billionaire. There's nothing special about Bill Gates whatsoever. And I don't mean to be rude and obnoxious, but the fact is, that's just the nature of the beast."
‘This authority the man has over the household is not for his own benefit, let's get that clear. It is ordered toward the spiritual and physical welfare of his family.’
'It's not good enough to read St. Thomas through a translation, you actually have to read him in Latin at some point if you're going to claim to be a scholar.'
“One nephew of mine said ‘Well, I think (tattoos, piercings, etc.) is a great form of self-expression.’ And I said ‘Well, why don't you just hack your arm off then? That's a form of self expression.'”
“There's one way that God will let you know that you've done your bit for him as far as having children- it's called menopause.”
(Sermon on Contraception & NFP)
‘(God) may recognize that your husband is going to be a loser, or that your wife will be perceived as an albatross. So, what does he do? He puts you in those circumstances not so that you will fight them and become disgruntled, but so that you will rise to the occasion.’
‘The Earth is basically the intersection between Heaven and Hell and how much it’s like Heaven is up to us and how much it’s like Hell is up to us.’
(2022 interview, The Chis Stefanick Show)
@IdidaRod
"I’m not suggesting that men go around bawling all the time, because if a guy is crying all the time it's kind of a lack of masculinity. He should be able to heal and deal with these things on a more rational level. But crying also at times for him is suited, it's appropriate."
The infamous Walmart quote is making the rounds again.
IMO, the comment was made in passing, and wasn't made maliciously but instead as an observation of how ill-mannered our society can be in public.
I always source the quotes, which can be consulted for greater context.
Even if it were true, this seems contrary to Christian charity.
But, beyond that, it's far from true: when I go into Walmart, I usually find the people kind & busy doing reasonable things like buying food or clothes for their families.
On AOC: 'You see her going from this ditzy, unregulated, delightful attitude towards things to just unregulated malice- anger. She is getting more and more angry as it goes on, which is a sign of immaturity.'
“No child, or adult for that matter, will ever have a deep reverence for the Holy Eucharist if he has no reverence for the clergy, his parents, or civil authorities.”
“When you get on the road, you have to understand that you’re entering a sphere of idiots- and by the way, you’re one of the idiots.”
(2014 conference)
UPDATE: Fr Ripperger is going to write a book called ‘Shop Talk' about the philosophical and theological lessons he learned while working for his dad as a mechanic.
“The reason tattooing is immoral... it is against the first category of natural inclination in the natural law, which is to preserve our being as it is.”
“Only a truly evil age would label fatherhood, which is rooted in authentic manhood, as something evil.”
(Funeral Sermon for Charles Anthony Ripperger)
‘If a guy has a problem with the 6th commandment, one of the first things you have to tell him is ‘stop listening to the music and stop playing the video games.’��
(Conference on The Influence of Music)
"(Music) does need regulation even on a societal level in order to make sure that it doesn't corrupt the morals of the citizenry."
(Conference on The Influence of Music)