Catholic Quotes - Page 2

• By your work you show what you love and what you know.

  Bruno of Cologne

  Shows, Knows, What You Love

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• As soon as you willfully allow a dialogue with temptation to begin, the soul is robbed of peace, just as consent to impurity destroys grace.

  Josemaria Escriva

  Temptation, Grace, Soul

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• The spirit of humility is sweeter than honey, and those who nourish themselves with this honey produce sweet fruit.

  Anthony of Padua

  Sweet, Humility, Honey

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• Love our Lady. And she will obtain abundant grace to help you conquer in your daily struggle.

  Josemaria Escriva

  Religious, Struggle, Grace

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  The things that we love tell us what we are.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Love, Christian, Greatness

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• Why persist in walking difficult and toilsome paths? There is no repose where you are seeking it. Search as you like, it is not where you are looking. You are seeking a happy life in the realm of death, and it will not be found there. How could life be happy where there is no life at all?

  Saint Augustine

  Happy Life, Path, Life Is

  Saint Augustine (1997). “The Confessions”, p.104

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• It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Doubt, Gone, Might

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• I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction.

  Frederik Pohl

  Fiction, Science Fiction

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• God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Happiness, Religious

  C.S. Lewis (1960). “Mere Christianity”

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• Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.

  St. Jerome

  Devil, May, Engaged

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• How could I bear a crown of gold when the Lord bears a crown of thorns? And bears it for me!

  Elizabeth of Hungary

  God, Spiritual, Humility

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• Catholic school graduates exhibit a wide variety of qualities that will not only help them in their careers but also in their family and community lives.

  Joe Baca

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• Pain is never permanent.

  Teresa of Avila

  Single, Spiritual, Pain

  "The Book of Positive Quotations" edited by John Cook, Steve Deger, and Leslie Ann Gibson, (p. 333), 2007.

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• Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity.

  Saint Augustine

  Lust, Purity And Love, Habit

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• It is now for the Catholic Church to bend herself to her work with calmness and generosity. It is for you to observe her with renewed and friendly attention.

  Pope John XXIII

  Generosity, Church, Friendly

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• I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic.

  John F. Kennedy

  Party, Hymns, Political

  Address to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association, delivered 12 September 1960 at the Rice Hotel in Houston, TX

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• My mom's a Catholic, and my dad's a Jew, and they didn't want anything to do with anything.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Inspiring, Mom, Dad

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• In the gay (Catholic) community, it would seem, the maxim is: love the sin and love the sinner, but hate anyone who calls it a sin or him a sinner.

  Richard John Neuhaus

  Hate, Gay, Community

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• If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will be through ignorance and not through malice. This may be taken as certain, and also that, through God's goodness, I am, and shall always be, as I always have been, subject to her.

  Teresa of Avila

  Taken, Ignorance, Say Anything

  St. Teresa of Avila (2002). “Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila”, p.200, A&C Black

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• Be humble in this life.

  Stephen I of Hungary

  Humble, Be Humble, This Life

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• I have neither permitted, nor shall I permit, the things which have been settled by the holy fathers to be violated by any innovation.

  Pope Leo I

  Father, Innovation, Holy

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• Love to be real, it must cost—it must hurt—it must empty us of self.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Christian, Hurt

  Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa of Calcutta (2010). “In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories & Prayers”, p.45, New World Library

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• Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.

  John Henry Newman

  Heaven

  John Henry Newman (1837). “Lyra apostolica”, p.98

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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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• We need to realize that a society in which contraceptives are widely used is going to have a very difficult time keeping free of abortions since the lifestyles and attitudes that contraception fosters create an alleged "need" for abortion.

  Janet E. Smith

  Attitude, Time Keeping, Abortion

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