Catholic Quotes - Page 10

• For me, prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a simple look turned toward heaven, it is a cry of recognition and of love, embracing both trial and joy.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Prayer, Heart, Acceptance

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• More than once I've had discussions with persons who say things based on a misunderstanding. 'Oh you Catholics worship images.' No we don't, 'yes you do,' no we don't, 'yes you do,' no we don't! The final retort to that is: I have a doctorate in Catholic theology that I have earned the hard way - by sitting in university classrooms for twelve years. I know what we believe! You get a doctorate in Catholic theology? What do you know about it? Nothing! You don't know anything about it. You're saying things that are born of misunderstanding or ignorance.

  John Corapi

  Believe, Ignorance, Years

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• The trouble is that everyone talks about reforming others and no one thinks about reforming himself.

  Peter of Alcantara

  Thinking, Trouble

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• The devil is always discovering something novel against the truth.

  Pope Leo I

  Devil, Novel, Discovering Something

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• Any innovation in matters of faith is extremely pernicious and utterly damnable!

  John Eudes

  Innovation, Matter, Pernicious

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• Lack of prayer is the cause of lack of time.

  Peter Kreeft

  Prayer, Causes, Lack Of Time

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• Peace is a mark of the Holy Spirit.

  Peter Kreeft

  Spirit, Holy, Mark

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• The greatest obstacle in the apostolate of the Church is the timidity or rather the cowardice of the faithful.

  Pope Pius X

  Faithful, Church, Obstacles

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• Feelings come to us, passively; love comes from us, actively, by our free choice.

  Peter Kreeft

  Choices, Feelings, Free Choice

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• I cannot sufficiently be astonished that such is the insanity of some men, such the impiety of their blinded understanding, such, finally, their lust after error, that they will not be content with the rule of faith delivered once and for all from antiquity, but must daily seek after something new, and even newer still, and are always longing to add something to religion, or to change it, or to subtract from it!

  Vincent of Lerins

  Men, Errors, Insanity

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• All novelty in faith is a sure mark of heresy.

  Vincent of Lerins

  Novelty, Mark, Heresy

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• Whosoever you are who introduce new doctrines, I beseech you to spare the ears of Romans! Spare that faith which was commended by the voice of an Apostle. Why should you attempt to teach us, at the end of hundreds of years, that which we never heard before? Why bring forward what Peter and Paul did not will to make known? Until this day, the world was Christian without your doctrine. Thus, I hold as an old man onto that faith wherein I was regenerated as a boy.

  St. Jerome

  Christian, Boys, Men

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• Holy Purity is granted by God when it is asked for with humility.

  Josemaria Escriva

  Humility, Purity, Granted

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• I think one of the unique aspects of Catholic school education is the opportunity to care for the material and intellectual needs of the child in a community atmosphere.

  Mark Foley

  Children, School, Unique

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• I was brought up Catholic, and my family is still very religious.

  Donna Mills

  Religious, My Family, Stills

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• Humility is not an exaggeratedly low opinion of yourself. Humility is self-forgetfulness.

  Peter Kreeft

  Humility, Self, Opinion

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• There are people who say, 'Oh every time Catholics make the sign of the cross they re-crucify Christ.' Look, that's what comes under the theological classification of happy horse manure! That's bologna, absolute bologna! They don't know anything about our religion, and I don't purport to know anything about theirs. I respect theirs, respect ours. When we make the sign of the cross, we are simply making a statement of faith. I believe in the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, and I believe in the sign of the cross, because that is the sign of our salvation!

  John Corapi

  Horse, Father, Believe

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• In the fulfillment of your duties, let your intentions be so pure that you reject from your actions any other motive than the glory of God and the salvation of souls.

  Pope John Paul II

  Soul, Action, Glory

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• You've got to be centered on Christ. It's a work of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit forms Jesus within us. No cross? No crown. No pain? No gain. No way around it - if there was a shortcut, I'd know it and I'd tell ya.

  John Corapi

  Christian, Religious, Jesus

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• The free exchange of consent properly witnessed by the Church establishes the marriage bond. Sexual union consummates it - seals it, completes it, perfects it. Sexual union, then, is where the words of the wedding vows become flesh.

  Christopher West

  Church, Unions, Flesh

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• We must speak to them with our hands by giving, before we try to speak to them with our lips.

  Peter Claver

  Hands, Giving, Trying

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• Take care to guard against all greed, for though one may be rich, one's life does not consist of possessions.

  Luke the Evangelist

  Greed, Doe, Care

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• I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.

  Edna O'Brien

  Long, Guilt, Ireland And The Irish

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

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Friendship, Positive

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• We should not bear it with bad grace if the answer to our prayer is long delayed. Rather, let us, because of this, show great patience and resignation. For He delays for this reason: that we may offer Him a fitting occasion of honoring us through His divine providence.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Prayer, Long, Grace

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