Catholic Church Quotes

• Judge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest to it.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Judging, Catholic, Church

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• Only the [Catholic] Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler’s campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel a great affection and admiration because the Church alone has had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual truth and moral freedom. I am forced thus to confess that what I once despised I now praise unreservedly.

  Albert Einstein

  Persistence, Catholic, Intellectual

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• A cloud of incense was rising on high; the people suddenly all bowed low; what could it mean? The truth flashed on him, fearfully yet sweetly; it was the Blessed Sacrament - it was the Lord Incarnate who was on the altar, who had come to visit and bless his people. It was the Great Presence, which makes a Catholic Church different from every other place in the world; which makes it, as no other place can be - holy.

  John Henry Newman

  Blessed, Mean, Clouds

  John Henry Newman, Trevor Lipscombe (2012). “Loss and Gain: The Story of a Convert”, p.351, Ignatius Press

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• If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will be through ignorance and not through malice. This may be taken as certain, and also that, through God's goodness, I am, and shall always be, as I always have been, subject to her.

  Teresa of Avila

  Taken, Ignorance, Catholic

  St. Teresa of Avila (2002). “Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila”, p.200, A&C Black

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• Just as in one man there is one soul and one body, yet many members; even so the Catholic Church is one body, having many members. The soul that quickens this body is the Holy Spirit; and therefore in the Creed after confessing our belief in the Holy Spirit, we are bid to believe in the Holy Catholic Church.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Believe, Men, Catholic

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• It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Catholic, Saint, Hard

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• Who except God can give you peace? Has the world ever been able to satisfy the heart?

  Gerard Majella

  Faith, Inspiration, Heart

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• I will go peaceably and firmly to the Catholic Church: for if Faith is so important to our salvation, I will seek it where true Faith first began, seek it among those who received it from God Himself.

  Elizabeth Ann Seton

  Catholic, Important, Church

  Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton (2000). “Elizabeth Ann Seton: A Woman of Prayer : Meditations, Reflections, Prayers, and Poems Taken from Her Writings”, University Press of Amer

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• The Roman Catholic Church, had it captured me, as it nearly did, would have sent me on some mission of danger and sacrifice and utilised me as a martyr; the Church established by law transformed me into an unbeliever and an antagonist.

  Annie Besant

  Sacrifice, Law, Catholic

  Annie Besant (1893). “Annie Besant: An Autobiography”

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• The fact that the Vatican is concluding a treaty with the new Germany means the acknowledgement of the National Socialist state by the Catholic Church. This treaty shows the whole world clearly and unequivocally that the assertion that National Socialism is hostile to religion is a lie.

  Adolf Hitler

  Lying, Mean, Catholic

  Letter to the Nazi Party, July 22, 1933.

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• Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.

  Lance Morrow

  Catholic, Mind, Religion

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• Becoming Catholic involves entering into a relationship with the Catholic Church.

  Carl E. Olson

  Relationship, Catholic, Church

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• Moving from unbelief, to Evangelicalism, and finally home to the Catholic Church, Professor Holly Ordway reveals how a gifted mind, longing for transcendence, can only appropriate it if it is wholly given by the reach and power of God's grace.

  Francis J. Beckwith

  Moving, Home, Catholic

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• The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Children, Men, Catholic

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• Only the Catholic Church protested against the Hitlerian onslaught on liberty. Up till then I had not been interested in the Church, but today I feel a great admiration for the Church, which alone has had the courage to struggle for spiritual truth and moral liberty

  Albert Einstein

  Spiritual, Struggle, Catholic

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• It has always been the habit of Catholic in danger and in troublous times to fly for refuge to Mary, and to seek for peace in Her maternal goodness; showing that the Catholic Church has always, and with justice, put all her hope and trust in the Mother of God. And truly the Immaculate Virgin, chosen to be the Mother of God and thereby associated with Him in the work of man's salvation, has a favour and power with Her Son greater than any human or angelic creature has ever obtained, or ever can gain

  Pope Leo X

  Mother, Son, Men

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• I am drawn to Christ but I have real problems with the Catholic Church.

  Andres Serrano

  Real, Catholic, Church

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• It is now for the Catholic Church to bend herself to her work with calmness and generosity. It is for you to observe her with renewed and friendly attention.

  Pope John XXIII

  Generosity, Catholic, Church

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• As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction

  Dan Simmons

  Catholic, Church, Predictions

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• The Roman Catholic church... carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion

  Robin Morgan

  Abortion, Catholic, Church

  Robin Morgan (1970). “Sisterhood is powerful: an anthology of writings from the women's liberation movement”, Vintage

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• I grew up a Catholic and I dont want to talk badly about the Catholic Church but theres a lot of routine stuff going on. You say the same prayers, you sit, you kneel, whatever.

  Bernhard Langer

  Sports, Prayer, Catholic

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• See that ye all follow the bishop, even as Jesus Christ does the Father, and the presbytery as ye would the apostles; and reverence the deacons, as being the institution of God. Let no man do anything connected with the Church without the bishop. [] Wherever the bishop shall appear, there let the multitude [of the people] also be; even as, wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church. [] Whatsoever [the bishop] shall approve of, that is also pleasing to God, so that everything that is done may be secure and valid.

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Jesus, Father, Men

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• And so, lastly, does the very name of "Catholic", which, not without reason, amid so many heresies, the Church has thus retained; so that, though all heretics wish to be called Catholics, yet when a stranger asks where the Catholic Church meets, no heretic will venture to point to his own chapel or house.

  Saint Augustine

  Names, House, Catholic

  Saint Augustine of Hippo (2016). “Saint Augustine of Hippo Collection [50 Books]”, p.1259, Aeterna Press

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• My mother converted when I was 16. She was the driving force behind religion in our family. So, I'm sure I was heavily influenced by that. But, I also was, and still am, convinced by the Catholic churches historical claims to represent the continuity with the early Church that other forms of Western Christianity lack.

  Ross Douthat

  Mother, Historical, Catholic

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• The old Catholic church traditions are worth more than all you have said. Here is a principle of logic that most men have no more sense than to adopt. I will illustrate it by an old apple tree. Here jumps off a branch and says, I am the true tree, and you are corrupt. If the whole tree is corrupt, are not its branches corrupt? If the Catholic religion is a false religion, how can any true religion come out of it? If the Catholic church is bad, how can any good thing come out of it?

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Men, Apples, Catholic Religion

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