Top 35 Scott Hahn Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “A joyless Catholic is the devil’s best tool. A joyful Catholic is God’s greatest instrument.”

— Scott Hahn

2. “If we do not fill our mind with prayer, it will fill itself with anxieties, worries, temptations, resentments, and unwelcome memories.”

— Scott Hahn

3. “The Mass-and I mean every single Mass-is heaven on earth. Literally.”

— Scott Hahn

4. “God sometimes gives us what we want so we’ll learn to trust Him to give us what we need.”

— Scott Hahn

5. “To go to Mass is to go to Heaven.”

— Scott Hahn

6. “Saint Augustine said that the New Testament is concealed in the Old, and the Old is revealed in the New.”

— Scott Hahn

7. “Only when we cease to rely on our own strength can we discover that God’s strength is always there for us.”

— Scott Hahn

8. “Loving difficult people will refine us. Perhaps only in heaven will our love be so perfected that we can actually like these people, too. St. Augustine spoke of a man who, on earth, had chronic gas problems; in heaven, his flatulence became perfect music.”

— Scott Hahn

9. “Love is something worth suffering for...”

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10. “The laws of God, like the law of gravity, do not depend upon how I feel about them. They are inexorable.”

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11. “Christ has no body now but yours, No hands, no feet on earth but yours, Yours are the eyes with which He looks Compassion on this world, Yours are the feet with which He walks to do good, Yours are the hands, with which He blesses all the world.”

— Scott Hahn

12. “At the root of all misery is unfulfilled desire.”

— Scott Hahn

13. “Redemptive suffering is an essential part of our master story. This is what it means for us to bear the image and likeness of God. By the power of the Holy Spirit, our suffering refines our charity, just as our charity transforms our suffering into a living sacrifice that allows God to have his way into our lives.”

— Scott Hahn

14. “The Church is the Body of Christ, and as such it is both heavenly and earthly. The Church is the communion of saints, and it includes as members both angels and shepherds – cherubim and seraphim, and you, and me.”

— Scott Hahn

15. “To deny the force of divine judgment, then, is to make God less than God, and to make us less than His children. For every father must discipline His children, and paternal discipline is itself a mercy, a fatherly expression of love.”

— Scott Hahn

16. “The family is the key of Christmas.”

— Scott Hahn

17. “If Catholics would simply live the Sacrament of Matrimony for one generation, we would witness a transformation of society and have a Christian culture.”

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18. “The first Christians were eucharistic by nature: they gathered for “the breaking of the bread and the prayers.” They were formed by the Word of God, the “apostles’ teaching.” When they met as a Church, their worship culminated in “fellowship” – the Greek word is koinonia, communion. The Mass was the center of life for the disciples of Jesus, and so it has ever been. Even today, the Mass is where we experience the apostolic teaching and communion, the breaking of the bread and the prayers.”

— Scott Hahn

19. “Dogma is by definition nothing other than an interpretation of Scripture.” The defined dogmas of our faith, then, encapsulate the Church’s infallible interpretation of Scripture, and theology is a further reflection upon that work.”

— Scott Hahn

20. “What makes the new ark holy? The old ark contained the word of God written in stone; Mary contained in her womb the Word of God Who became man and dwelt among us. The ark contained manna; Mary contained the living bread come down from heaven. The ark contained the rod of the high priest Aaron; Mary’s womb contained the eternal high priest, Jesus Christ. In the heavenly temple, the Word of God is Jesus, and the ark in whom he resides is Mary, His mother.”

— Scott Hahn

21. “If you complain to someone, you assume that it’s someone who really cares about you.”

— Scott Hahn

22. “We are created for the sake of love. When we experience love in family life, it is heavenly, but it is still only an image of the greater glory we hope to behold in heaven.”

— Scott Hahn

23. “The Catholic life – the great Christian tradition – is a tremendous inheritance from two millennia of saints in many lands and circumstances.”

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24. “God gave us the Scriptures not just to inform or motivate us; more than anything he wants to save us.”

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25. “Down through the centuries, the Church has carefully preserved, protected, and defended its Marian teachings, because to give them up would be to give up the gospel.”

— Scott Hahn

26. “The belief is that Jesus is made present to his people in word and sacrament, both in the inspired accounts of the evangelists and in the consecrated elements of the Eucharist.”

— Scott Hahn

27. “Sometimes suffering is what’s best for us, if only because it keeps us from sinning or tempting others to sin.”

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28. “Revelation unveils that bride. The climax of the Apocalypse, then, is the communion of the Church and Christ: the marriage supper of the Lamb.”

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29. “In the Book of Genesis, God creates the world in six days and seals his covenant with humanity on the seventh. Because of this, the Hebrew verb used for swearing a covenant oath is, literally translated, “to seven oneself.”

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30. “Thus, I repeat, anti-Semitism and anti-Judaism are spiritually destructive and stupid. In the words of Pope Pius XI: “Spiritually, we are Semites.” You cannot be a good Catholic until you’ve fallen in love with the religion and people of Israel. WALK.”

— Scott Hahn

31. “The problem of corrupt clergy haunts God’s family in every age. Priests who misuse and abuse their authority inflict untold damage upon the people of God.”

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32. “Remember that Israel’s tradition always had men worshiping in imitation of angels. Now, as Revelation shows, both heaven and earth participate together in a single act of loving worship.”

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33. “God’s fatherhood does not lessen the severity of His wrath or lower the standard of His justice. On the contrary, a loving father requires more from his children than judges demand from defendants. Yet a good father also shows greater mercy.”

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34. “If God welcomed newborns into Israel by means of ritual circumcision for two thousand years, why would He suddenly close the kingdom to babies because they could not understand ritual baptism?”

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35. “Moreover, we cannot ascend to heaven if we flee the battle. God has destined us, the Church, to be the Bride of the Lamb. Yet we cannot rule if we do not first conquer the forces that oppose us, the powers who are pretenders to our throne.”

— Scott Hahn