Catholic Quotes - Page 19

• When you feel the assaults of passion and anger, then is the time to be silent as Jesus was silent in the midst of His ignominies and sufferings.

  Paul of the Cross

  Faith, Jesus, Inspiration

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• The saints have always been the source and origin of renewal in the most difficult moments in the Church's history.

  Pope John Paul II

  Faith, Inspiration, Church

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• Stop entertaining those vain fears. Remember it is not feeling which constitutes guilt but the consent to such feelings. Only the free will is capable of good or evil. But when the will sighs under the trial of the tempter and does not will what is presented to it, there is not only no fault but there is virtue.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Faith, Inspiration, Evil

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• The Holy Rosary is the storehouse of countless blessings.

  Alanus de Rupe

  Faith, Inspiration, Blessing

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• Those whose hearts are pure are temples of the Holy Spirit.

  Saint Lucy

  Faith, Inspiration, Heart

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• All the wealth in the world cannot be compared with the happiness of living together happily united.

  Marie-Marguerite d'Youville

  Happiness, Happy, Faith

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• Human progress planned as alternatives (to God's plan) introduce in justice, evil and violence rising against the divine plan of justice and salvation. And despite transitory and apparent successes, they are reduced to simple machinations destined to dissolution and failure.

  Pope John Paul II

  Faith, Inspiration, Simple

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• Think well. Speak well. Do well. These three things, through the mercy of God, will make a man go to Heaven.

  Camillus de Lellis

  Faith, Inspiration, Men

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• It is because of faith that we exchange the present for the future.

  Fidelis of Sigmaringen

  Faith, Inspiration, Catholic Saint

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• Earthly riches are like the reed. Its roots are sunk in the swamp, and its exterior is fair to behold; but inside it is hollow. If a man leans on such a reed, it will snap off and pierce his soul.

  Anthony of Padua

  Faith, Inspiration, Men

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• This my goodness does to endow the souls of the just more fully with spiritual riches when for my love they are stripped of material goods because they have renounced the world and all its pleasures and even their own will. These are the ones who fatten their souls, enlarging them in the abyss of my charity. Then I become their spiritual provider. The Holy Spirit becomes their servant.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Faith, Spiritual, Inspiration

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• O Jesus, if I but considered attentively your immense solicitude for me, how greatly should I not excel in every virtue? Pardon me, O Jesus, so much carelessness, pardon such great ignorance. My God, Jesus my Love, Increated Goodness, what would have become of me if you had not drawn me to yourself? Open your heart to me, open to me your sacramental breast; I open mine to you.

  Gemma Galgani

  Faith, Jesus, Inspiration

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• He who labors as he prays lifts his heart to God with his hands.

  Benedict of Nursia

  Faith, Inspiration, Heart

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  CCF sponsorin, world conquerin, telephone monitorin
  Louis Vuitton modelin, pornographic actress honorin
  String theory ponderin, bullimic vomitin
  Catholic priest fondlin, pre-emptive bombin and Osama and no bombin them
  They breakin in my car again, deforestation and overloggin and
  Hennessy and Hypnotic swallowin, hydroponic coughin and
  All the world's ills, sittin on chrome 24-inch wheels, like that

  Lupe Fiasco

  Army, Men, Car

  Song: Hurts Me Soul

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• What does it mean to be Catholic and not a Catholic? I feel adrift, homeless. My Catholic imagination allows me to see the soul as a lit breath, seeking the divine. It persists.

  Julianna Baggott

  Mean, Imagination, Soul

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• Going to Catholic school was what fueled me into comedy. The nuns were so brutal so I used to try to make my friends laugh.

  Downtown Julie Brown

  School, Laughing, Trying

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• There was plenty of dysfunction in my family and I went to Catholic School with these psychotic nuns. I would always try to be funny to lighten the mood.

  Downtown Julie Brown

  School, Dysfunction, Trying

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• I had grown up in a privileged, upper-caste Hindu community; and because my father worked for a Catholic hospital, we lived in a prosperous Christian neighborhood.

  Aravind Adiga

  Christian, Father, Community

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• I was brought up a Catholic, so I suppose I have to believe in the goodness of human beings. I think we're not so bad after all.

  Pauline Collins

  Believe, Thinking, Goodness

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• I just try to be the best Catholic.

  Jim Caviezel

  Trying, Being The Best

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• Being raised Catholic myself, I think people who are Catholic tend to carry a lot of guilt. It's almost a joke.

  Linda Cardellini

  Thinking, People, Guilt

  "The Mad Men GQ+A: Linda Cardellini on Sylvia Rosen's Extramarital Bombshell". Interview with Gwynne Watkins, www.gq.com. June 12, 2013.

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• Respect for the dignity of the human person is the foundational principle of any just society. From a Catholic perspective, it also forms the foundation of all of our Church's social teachings.

  Salvatore J. Cordileone

  Teaching, Perspective, Church

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• Like many Catholics, I was very affected by the personality of Jesus and that impression, pious as it was, has stayed with me.

  Simon Callow

  Jesus, Personality, Impression

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• I'm a Catholic by background. I was raised in Goa, a part of India that was visited by Portuguese missionaries a few hundred years ago, which explains my last name.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Years, Names, India

  Interview with Heidi Benson, www.sfgate.com. November 30, 2008.

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• I would not have stayed at a university if it told me upfront that a condition for me getting tenure. my views have to be filtered through Catholic values. I would consider it a betrayal of my parents' legacy.

  Norman Finkelstein

  Betrayal, Views, Parent

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