Catholic Quotes - Page 23

• The proper effect of the Eucharist is the transformation of man into God.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Faith, Inspiration, Men

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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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• The best way not to find the bed too cold is to go to bed colder than the bed is.

  Carlo Borromeo

  Bed, Way, Cold

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• Persecution shows who is a hireling, and who a true pastor.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Pastor, Persecution, Shows

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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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• Believing is an act of the intellect assenting to the divine truth by command of the will moved by God through grace.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Believe, Grace, Divine

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• The declared enemies of God and His Church, heretics and schismatics, must be criticized as much as possible, as long as truth is not denied. It is a work of charity to shout: 'Here is the wolf!' when it enters the flock or anywhere else.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Powerful, Long, Enemy

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• If I have any worth, it is to live my life for God so as to teach these peoples; even though some of them still look down on me.

  Saint Patrick

  Looks, Living My Life, God Life

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• Every morning prepare your soul for a tranquil day.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Morning, Soul, Tranquil

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• It is unlawful to add anything to the words of Holy Scripture regarding the sense.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Add, Scripture, Holy

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• There being an imminent danger for the faith, prelates must be questioned, even publicly, by their subjects.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Danger, Paved Roads, Subjects

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• There is a species of moral, legal, and social modernism which we condemn, no less decidedly than we condemn theological modernism.

  Pope Pius XI

  Moral, Social, Modernism

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• Wherever a Scotsman goes, here goes Burns. His grand whole, catholic soul squares with the good of all; therefore we find him in everything, everywhere.

  John Muir

  Squares, Scotland, Soul

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• And I'm a Catholic, from an Irish Catholic family, and we know plenty of stuff about guilt.

  Bob Gunton

  Guilt, Stuff, Knows

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My home base - pop music and the Catholic Church.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Home, Church, Pops

  "Pop Sovereign: A Conversation With Madonna". Interview With T. Cole Rachel, pitchfork.com. March 2, 2015.

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• Current Catholic worship often ignores the essential connection between truth and beauty, body and soul, at the center of the Catholic worldview. The Church requires that we be faithful, but must we also be deaf, dumb, and blind? I deserve to suffer for my sins, but must so much of that punishment take place in church?

  Dana Gioia

  Punishment, Dumb, Soul

  "The Catholic Writer Today". www.firstthings.com. December 2013.

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• The reality is that while heliocentrism was discussed and often accepted within Catholic circles - it was effectively the only place where it could be - the more traditional view of the solar system still prevailed even among leading scientists. So it's hardly surprising that Galileo's Catholic judges had difficult accepting his views, especially when they saw themselves as defending scientific orthodoxy and were supported in this by the scientific establishment.

  Michael Coren

  Reality, Views, Circles

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• In early Judaism, the priesthood was maintained within various families and passed down from father to son, thus necessitating marriage. But this is the old covenant, and even within this model priests were required to abstain from having sex with their wives during the time they served in the Temple. Catholics believe that priests fulfill this Temple relationship ever day - the Mass and the Eucharist mean they are serving in the Temple every day of their ordained lives.

  Michael Coren

  Sex, Father, Believe

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• We cannot by a little verbal sophistry confound the qualities of different minds, nor force opposite excellences into a union by all the intolerance in the world. If we have a taste for some one precise style or manner, we may keep it to ourselves and let others have theirs. If we are more catholic in our notions, and want variety of excellence and beauty, it is spread abroad for us to profusion in the variety of books and in the several growth of men's minds, fettered by no capricious or arbitrary rules.

  William Hazlitt

  Book, Men, Opposites

  "Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners". Book by William Hazlitt. Chapter: "On Criticism", 1822.

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• It’s the strangest thing about this church - it is obsessed with sex, absolutely obsessed. Now they will say we, with our permissive society and rude jokes, are obsessed. No, we have a healthy attitude. We like it, it’s fun, it’s jolly; because it’s a primary impulse it can be dangerous and dark and difficult. It’s a bit like food in that respect, only even more exciting. The only people who are obsessed with food are anorexics and the morbidly obese, and that in erotic terms is the Catholic church in a nutshell.

  Stephen Fry

  Sex, Fun, Attitude

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• It was manifest to me that there was something in the Roman Catholic religion which made the priests very dear to the people; for I doubt whether in any village in England, had such an accident happened to the rector, all the people would have roused themselves at midnight to wreak their vengeance on the assailant.

  Bill Vaughan

  Catholic Religion, People, Doubt

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