Catholic Quotes - Page 15

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

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Positive, Happiness

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• It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.

  H. L. Mencken

  Women, Pregnancy, Science

  Minority Report: H. L. Mencken's Notebooks (1956)

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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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• One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.

  George Orwell

  Atheist, Religion, Atheism

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• The Roman Catholics teach that unless you're a Roman Catholic you do not go to heaven.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Heaven, Teach, Roman Catholic

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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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• 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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• 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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• The Catholic Church has never really come to terms with women. What I object to is being treated either as Madonnas or Mary Magdalenes.

  Shirley Williams

  Women, Church, Mary

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• If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Christian

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• All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Philosophical, Thoughtful, Love Is

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• I was brought up Roman Catholic. I'm not even baptized.

  Billy Corgan

  Roman Catholic, Baptized

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• I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

  T. S. Eliot

  Literature, Classicists

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• I am saying voluntarily that I have sung for almost every religious group in the country, from Jewish and Catholic, and Presbyterian and Holy Rollers and Revival Churches.

  Pete Seeger

  Country, Religious, Church

  "When Pete Seeger Faced Down the House Un-American Activities Committee" by Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. January 28, 2014.

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• I have four children which is not bad considering I'm not a Catholic.

  Peter Ustinov

  Children, Four, Considering

  "Ustinov's comic touch". BBC obituary, news.bbc.co.uk. March 29, 2004.

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• Now a Protestant confronting a Catholic ghost is exactly Shakespeare's way of grappling with what was not simply a general social problem but one lived out in his own life.

  Stephen Greenblatt

  Way, Ghost, Problem

  "An interview about Will in the World". "Bookworm" with Michael Silverblatt, stephengreenblatt.com. March 16, 2013.

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• I try hard to be a good Catholic.

  Paul Begala

  Trying, Hard

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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, Church, Birth Control

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

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• BC is not going to replace the hierarchy, and BC is not going to lead some major reform in the Catholic Church - that's got to come out of the whole Catholic community.

  William P. Leahy

  Community, Church, Reform

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• We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

  Mother Teresa

  Motivational, Wise, Peace

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• Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.

  Mother Teresa

  Smile, God, Mother

  Mother Teresa (2010). “Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others”, p.289, Image

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• Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Powerful, Ethos, Unity

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1955). “Theological texts”

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• Without the burden of afflictions it is impossible to reach the height of Grace. The gift of Grace increases as the struggle increases.

  Rose of Lima

  Sympathy, Struggle, Grace

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• We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.

  Teresa of Avila

  Religious, Suffering, Saint

  St. Teresa of Avila (2002). “Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila”, p.345, A&C Black

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