Catholic Quotes - Page 22

• There is still time for endurance, time for patience, time for healing, time for change. Have you slipped? Rise up. Have you sinned? Cease. Do not stand among sinners, but leap aside.

  Saint Basil

  Faith, Inspiration, Healing

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• It is impossible for us not to speak about what we have seen and heard.

  Saint Peter

  Faith, Inspiration, Impossible

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• Few souls understand what God would effect in them if they should give themselves entirely into his hands and allow his grace to act.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Faith, Inspiration, Hands

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• To love God is something greater than to know Him.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Faith, Inspiration, Saint

  St Thomas Aquinas (2013). “Summa Theologica, Volume 3 (Part II, Second Section)”, p.1302, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The Blessed Eucharist is the perfect Sacrament of the Lord's Passion, since It contains Christ Himself and his Passion.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Faith, Blessed, Inspiration

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• True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  True Love, Honor, Suffering

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• Just as in one man there is one soul and one body, yet many members; even so the Catholic Church is one body, having many members. The soul that quickens this body is the Holy Spirit; and therefore in the Creed after confessing our belief in the Holy Spirit, we are bid to believe in the Holy Catholic Church.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Believe, Men, Soul

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• What does it take to become a saint? Will it.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Doe, Saint

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• The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in His divinity, assumed our nature, so that He, made man, might make men gods.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Son, Men, Divinity

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• Private boarding schools and Catholic schools on the East Coast are something. Choate really ruined my father's life. He's had nightmares about Choate every since he went there. Treat Williams, who's a good friend, went to Kent School, in Connecticut. The stories I've heard about those places - didn't you have one nun who was just the worst nightmare?

  Laura Dern

  School, Good Friend, Nightmare

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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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• Sand camouflage army men
  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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• Above the clouds the sky is always blue.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Faith, Inspiration, Clouds

  St. Therese of Lisieux (2013). “The Poetry of St. Therese of Lisieux: The Complete Edition”, p.206, ICS Publications

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• The cross means there is no shipwreck without hope; there is no dark without dawn; nor storm without haven.

  Pope John Paul II

  Faith, Inspiration, Mean

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• The great method of prayer is to have none. If in going to prayer one can form in oneself a pure capacity for receiving the spirit of God, that will suffice for all method.

  Jane Frances de Chantal

  Faith, Prayer, Inspiration

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• Prayer is the oxygen of the soul.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Faith, Prayer, Inspiration

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• At the end of our life, we shall all be judged by charity.

  John of the Cross

  Faith, Inspiration, Charity

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• Charity may be a very short word, but with its tremendous meaning of pure love, it sums up man's entire relation to God and to his neighbor.

  Aelred of Rievaulx

  Love, God, Faith

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• What will be the crown of those who, humble within and humiliated without, have imitated the humility of our Savior in all its fullness!

  Bernadette Soubirous

  Faith, Inspiration, Humble

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