Catholic Quotes - Page 14

• Let us return from that Table like lions breathing out fire, terrifying to the devil!

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Fire, Breathing, Devil

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• Peace is defined as harmony among those who are divided. When, therefore, we end the civil war within our nature and cultivate peace within ourselves, we become at peace.

  Gregory of Nyssa

  War, Harmony, Ends

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• I doubt if anyone of any tenderness or imagination can see the hand of a child and not be a little frightened of it. It is awful to think of the essential human energy moving so tiny a thing; it is like imagining that human nature could live in the wing of a butterfly or the leaf of a tree. When we look upon lives so human and yet so small... We feel the same kind of obligation to these creatures that a deity might feel...

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Children, Moving, Butterfly

  "The Defendant". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1901.

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• Many, many people hereabouts are not becoming Christians for one reason only: there is nobody to make them Christians.

  Francis Xavier

  Christian, People, Becoming

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• Girded with faith and the performance of good works, let us follow in his [Jesus] paths by the guidance of the Gospel.

  Benedict of Nursia

  Jesus, Path, Guidance

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• War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future.

  Pope John Paul II

  War, Past, Humanity

  Pope John Paul II (1987). “Pope John Paul II, Pilgrim of Peace”, Random House Value Pub

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• Jesus needs neither books nor Doctors of Divinity in order to instruct souls; He, the Doctor of Doctors, He teaches without noise of words.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Jesus, Book, Doctors

  St. Therese of Lisieux (1915). “Thoughts of Saint Thérèse”, p.88, TAN Books

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• I am the wheat of God, and am ground by the teeth of the wild beasts, that I may be found the pure bread of God.

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Teeth, May, Wheat

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• The modern mind will accept nothing on authority, but will accept anything on no authority. Say that the Bible or the Pope says so and it will be dismissed without further examination. But preface your remark with "I think I heard somewhere," or, try but fail to remember the name of some professor who might have said "such-and-such," and it will be immediately accepted as an unshakable fact.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Thinking, Names, Mind

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• If we want to know what's most sacred in this world, all we need to do is look for what is most violently profaned.

  Christopher West

  Needs, Looks, World

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• The idea that 'preaching the Gospel' has nothing to do with sex and that 'preaching about sex' has nothing to do with the Gospel betrays layers and layers of seriously misguided thinking. When we divorce God's love from sexual love, as Pope Benedict says, 'the essence of Christianity' becomes 'decisively cut off from the complex fabric of human life.'

  Christopher West

  Sex, Divorce, Cutting

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• What is the purpose and meaning and nature of sexual intercourse? It seems to me to be quite clear. It's for two things. It's for babies and it's for bonding. And that's what happens when you have sexual intercourse - you have babies and you bond. My view is, if you don't want to have babies and you don't want to bond, then you shouldn't be having sexual intercourse.

  Janet E. Smith

  Baby, Two, Views

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• We live in a culture in which condoms can be handed out in schools and Bibles can't. And I think that tells you everything you need to know about our society.

  Janet E. Smith

  School, Thinking, Needs

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• You may be surprised to learn that, in our law, although the fetus is currently without the right to life, it does have some rights. For instance, under civil law, the unborn child has the right to inherit part of his father's estate should his father die before he is born, and he has the right to sue his Mother, or a doctor, for injuiries sustained while in the womb.

  Janet E. Smith

  Mother, Children, Father

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• Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.

  Pope John XXIII

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Let us pray for all good and faithful priests who dedicate themselves to their people with generosity and unknown sacrifices.

  Pope Francis

  Prayer, Sacrifice, People

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• We've always had issues up for discussion at Catholic universities.

  William P. Leahy

  Issues, Discussion, University

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• We do hereby command the Leaders of the Hebrew, Catholic and Protestant Churches to sanctify and have us crowned Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico.

  Emperor Norton

  Leader, Church, United States

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• I'm Catholic, he's Jewish, and it was just easier to elope.

  Marg Helgenberger

  Easier

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• Apparently God takes reception of Holy Communion seriously. Apparently some things are more sacred than politics. Apparently it's all or nothing when it comes to being Catholic.

  Carl E. Olson

  Sacred, Holy, Communion

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• Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.

  Bill Condon

  Church, Way, Dangerous

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• I was raised a Catholic and when you're raised a Catholic they don't teach you to think for yourself. You're taught not to think too deeply about things.

  Abel Ferrara

  Thinking, Taught, Think For Yourself

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have my own religion. I'm sort of one-quarter Baptist, one-quarter Catholic, one-quarter Jewish.

  Tom T. Hall

  Baptists, Quarters, My Own

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• I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood.

  Don DeLillo

  Thinking, Childhood, Literature

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.81, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• In the nineteenth century, many Anglican theologians, both evangelical and catholic, embraced positively the proposal of evolution.

  Arthur Peacocke

  Evolution, Proposal, Century

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