Catholic Quotes - Page 3

• As a proud Catholic, I know the impact that faith-based education can have in our society and have witnessed it first hand in my district.

  Joe Baca

  Impact, Hands, Proud

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• Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Personality, Doubt, Survival

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• Every day Catholics prove that you can be a good Catholic and a good Democrat and have a different position from the Church on abortion.

  James Carville

  Abortion, Church, Different

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• The Catholic faith never changes. But the language and mode of manifesting this one faith can change according to peoples, times and places.

  Francis Arinze

  Language, Never Change, Manifest

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• The fact remains that we are invited to forget ourselves on purpose, cast our awful solemnity to the wind, and join in the general Dance.

  Thomas Merton

  Faith, Inspiration, Wind

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  Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

  Pope Paul VI

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• We've had enough of exhortations to be silent! Cry out with a hundred thousand tongues. I see that the world is rotten because of silence.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Silence, Rotten, World

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• Faith is what gets you started. Hope is what keeps you going. Love is what brings you to the end.

  Mother Angelica

  Love Is, Ends

  Mother Angelica (2016). “Mother Angelica's Answers, Not Promises: Straightforward Solutions to Life's Puzzling Problems”, p.23, Sophia Institute Press

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• You see, some non-Catholic friends of mine have questioned the depth of my faith because of the fact that I have a good education.

  Robert Vaughn

  Education, Depth, Facts

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• You know, my children go to a local, local catholic school just down the road.

  John Deacon

  Children, School, Down The Road

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• Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Spiritual, Men, Addiction

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• We are no longer able to hear God - There are too many frequencies filling our ears.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Ears, Able, Filling

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• We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution. Each of us is the result of a thought of God.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Evolution, Results, Casual

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• Catholic theology believes that God gave man free will, and you can't give somebody free will and then send in a play from the sidelines.

  Roger Ebert

  Believe, Men, Play

  Interview With Brit Hume, progressive.org. August 1, 2003.

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• The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Matter, Dogma, Scrutiny

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• It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.

  Francis of Assisi

  Leadership, Faith, Spiritual

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• The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?

  Dorothy Day

  Heart, Challenges, Growth

  "Loaves and Fishes". Book by Dorothy Day, 1963.

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• Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed in the human heart a desire to know the truth- in a word, to know himself- so that, by knowing and loving God, men and women may also come to the fullness of truth about themselves.

  Pope John Paul II

  Faith, Inspiration, Heart

  Pope John Paul II (1998). “Faith and Reason: Encyclical Letter Fides Et Ratio of the Supreme Pontiff John Paul II to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Relationship Between Faith and Reason”

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• So the divine love is sacrificial love. Love does not mean to have and to own and to possess. It means to be had and to be owned and to be possessed. It is not a circle circumscribed by self, it is arms outstretched to embrace all humanity within its grasp.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Mean, Love Is, Self

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• In Christ and through Christ man has acquired full awareness of his dignity.

  Pope John Paul II

  Men, Dignity, Awareness

  Catholic Church. Pope (1978-2005 : John Paul II), Pope John Paul II (1979). “The Redeemer of man: encyclical”

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• I have a mustard seed; and I am not afraid to use it.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Use, Mustard Seed, Not Afraid

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• Souls do not wish to be bullied, but gently brought back; such is the nature of man.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Men, Soul, Wish

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• Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Inspirational, Heartbreak, Faith

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• The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.

  Pope John Paul II

  Family, Lying, Selfish

  Pope John Paul II (1984). “John Paul II and the Laity”, Le Jacq Pub

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• Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.

  Pope John Paul II

  Love, Family, Anniversary

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