Catholic Quotes

• Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

  Saint Augustine

  Faith, Spiritual, Prayer

  "Is It Okay to Pray for Material Things?" by Rick Hamlin, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 22, 2010.

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  I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

  C. S. Lewis

  Faith, God, Christian

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.229, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Holiness doesn't mean doing extraordinary things, but doing ordinary things with love and faith.

  Pope Francis

  Love, Faith, Christian

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• Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.

  Saint Augustine

  Inspirational, Special, Connections

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• Remember that nothing is small in the eyes of God. Do all that you do with love.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Eye, Remember

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• Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Fashion, Atheist, Orthodoxy

  "The Illustrated London News" Magazine, April 19, 1930.

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  Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.

  Saint Augustine

  Forever, Soul, Body

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• If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Friendship, Positive

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• Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Patience, Love Yourself, Recovery

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• To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.

  Teresa of Avila

  Inspirational, Courage, Lying

  "The Little Lamp" by Eknath Easwaran, (p. 80), 1981.

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• There are no part-time Christians.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Religious, Believer

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• Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Positive, Happiness

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• Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it.

  Pope John Paul II

  Silly, Stupidity, Misuse

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• There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.

  Teresa of Avila

  Prayer, Humility, Tears

  Attributed in "The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes" by Carolyn Warner, 1992.

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• To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Faith, Powerful, Thoughtful

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• As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

  Pope John Paul II

  Family, Faith, Inspiration

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

  Saint Augustine

  God, Faith, Believe

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• Whenever you begin any good work you should first of all make a most pressing appeal to Christ our Lord to bring it to perfection.

  Benedict of Nursia

  Perfection, Firsts, Christ

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• If God is not a Trinity, God is not love. For love requires three things: a lover, a beloved, and a relationship between them.

  Peter Kreeft

  Three, Lovers, Beloved

  Peter Kreeft (2016). “Fundamentals of the Faith: Essays in Christian Appologetics”, p.144, Ignatius Press

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  I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Positive, Marriage

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• If you follow the will of God, you know that in spite of all the terrible things that happen to you, you will never lose a final refuge. You know that the foundation of the world is love, so that even when no human being can or will help you, you may go on, trusting in the One that loves you.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Love You, Foundation, Finals

  Pope Benedict XVI, Joseph Ratzinger (2007). “Jesus of Nazareth: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration”, p.38, Image

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• Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Jealousy, Envy, Genius

  "Walk with God".

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• God doesn't ask that we succeed in everything, but that we are faithful. However beautiful our work may be, let us not become attached to it. Always remain prepared to give it up, without losing your peace.

  Mother Teresa

  Beautiful, Giving, Faithful

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• The most powerful weapon to conquer the devil is humility. For, as he does not know at all how to employ it, neither does he know how to defend himself from it.

  Vincent de Paul

  Christian, Powerful, Humility

  "A Year with the Saints" by P. J. Kenedy, (p. 47), 1891.

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• Apart from the cross, there is no other ladder by which we may get to heaven.

  Rose of Lima

  God, Faith, Christian

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