Sam Max 🇻🇦

Catholic
|Husband | Dad |LOTR Supremacist

[Sam Max 🇻🇦 @Burchyett]

“I row, God steers.”

[🕊️ @lichthauch]

Keep your hands rough, your belly small, your life cheap. keep your cupboard stocked, your soul ready to eat dust. so that when the locusts come for the fields, for the currency, you will stand while the softer ones kneel and beg for bread. and you will bless the name that feeds you anyway

[Augustus @AugustusDelano]

Audit your assumptions, so you don't sneakily accept limiting beliefs

Good people exist.
Marriage is beautiful.
Life is worth suffering.
There's plenty of time.
America's magnificent.
Virtues are worth defending.
Kids are the best investment.
God wants what's best for you.
You can have privacy and influence.
Ten rough years can be reconciled in a month.
You can be smart, athletic, attractive, happy, and successful without giving up one.

Etc etc

Cultivate subconscious axioms that manifest excellence, and reject all covert forms of cowardice.

[Luke Burgis @lukeburgis]

This is a beautiful reflection.

“Ron Rolheiser, O.M.I., is right when he says the home is a monastery, a place to “learn the value of powerlessness and a place to learn that time is not ours, but God’s.” Madeleine, a powerless baby, has broken my conception of self-mastery or power.”

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

God loves you just as you are, but He dreams of you being even better! The Lord allows us all to start anew, for being human and being Christian does not mean never making mistakes, but rather growing in the ability to convert, repent, make amends and, above all, to reconcile and forgive.

[qaartzz 𖣁 @qaartzz]

“Beware of despairing about yourself; you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself"

—Saint Augustine

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Selflessness is like leaven that makes the human, ethical, and spiritual dimensions of society grow, and it is a distinctive element of the “City of God.” In a world constantly influenced by a logic of self-interest and profit, where the term “growth” is reduced to the economic-financial sense, it is important to think and live according to a more authentic mentality that leads to integral human development. #ApostolicJourney
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[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

The human heart is not filled by accumulating experiences, possibilities, or temporary guarantees; it is filled when it discovers a call, when it understands that life reaches fullness only if it is given. Following Christ does not impoverish existence, but expands it. #ApostolicJourney

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

I come to #Spain to confirm, encourage, and inspire renewed fidelity to the Gospel among believers, as well as deeper reconciliation and cooperation among the different souls of this nation. Spain's own history reminds us that stability and prosperity are born not of a culture of confrontation, but of a culture of encounter. #ApostolicJourney

[Fr. Joseph Krupp @Joeinblack]

So, I make $100 and the government takes 1/3 of that.
I take the 2/3 remaining to me and I buy something that I need.
They tax that.
I take what is left over and split it in half: half to the bank and have to an investment account.
The interest I make from the bank?
They tax that.
The interest I make from my investments?
They tax that.
If somehow, after all the confiscations, I’m able to buy myself a piece of land they will tax my purchase.
Then, even though they pretend I owe the land, they charge me every year for the right to live on it.
While the Democrats and Republicans keep us fighting each other over how much billionaires are taxed, we stop looking at how much money they take from us and pour into a monstrous bureaucracy that every day seems to take away a little more of our freedoms and give us less in return.
Just a note for all of you who have picked a side in the tyrannical two party system.

[Fr. Joseph Krupp @Joeinblack]

“God did not give us a spirit of cowardice but rather of power and love and self control.”
2 Timothy 1

Power, love and self control:

Power to do and be all that God has called us to be.

Love to see the people we think are our enemies as our patients.

Self control so that we are not ruled by our emotions or circumstances but by love and truth.

Lord, You have given me all I need. Help me to seize it and be a saint.

#talkedtotheboss

[Sam Max 🇻🇦 @Burchyett]

@JacobEdwardInc Amen brother!

[Catholic Quotes @CatholicQuote12]

“People who place themselves before the sun get a tan; people who place themselves before the Eucharist become saints.”-

Saint Carlo Acutis

[Mads @europemaxxed]

The only thing an old man can tell a young man is that it goes fast, real fast, and if you're not careful it's too late. Of course, the young man will never understand this truth.
- Norm Macdonald

[Sr. Miriam James @onegroovynun]

The world is thy ship,
not thy home.
-St. Therese of Lisieux

[Kurt Steiner @Kurt_Steiner]

You might not like it, but this is what elite performance looks like.

[Kenjac @JackKennedy]

Lived long enough for Doc Holiday edits, hell yea

[Catholic Life @prayandfast2]

St. John Paul II, pray for us!

[That Trad Gal @thattradgal]

Chris Farley, a comedian and faithful Catholic, used to ask God to guide his work by praying “The Clown’s Prayer”:

As I stumble through this life,
help me to create more laughter than tears, dispense more happiness than gloom, spread more cheer than despair.
Never let me become so indifferent that I will fail to see the wonder in the eyes of a child
or the twinkle in the eyes of the aged.
Never let me forget that my total effort is to cheer people, make them happy and forget - at least momentarily - all the unpleasantness in their lives.
And, in my final moment, may I hear You whisper:
'When you made My people smile, you made Me smile!’

Amen