Catholic Quotes - Page 30

• When you don't have kids and you're in a Catholic family - one of my sisters had 10 children in 11 years - she's part rabbit - you feel kind of guilty about that. So, I want to do things for other people's children.

  Marge Schott

  Children, Kids, Years

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• Do you wish to learn the secret of true Eucharistic prayer? Consider, then, all the mysteries in the light of the Blessed Sacrament. It is a divine prism through which they can all be studied. The Holy Eucharist is, indeed, 'Jesus Christ, yesterday, and today, and the same forever' (Heb 13:8). In this Sacrament He glorifies all the mysteries of His life and prolongs, as it were, the exercise of all His virtues. The Eucharist is, in a word, the great Mystery of our faith to which all Catholic truths lead

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Jesus, Prayer, Blessed

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• Hear Mass daily; it will prosper the whole day. All your duties will be performed the better for it, and your soul will be stronger to bear its daily cross. The Mass is the most holy act of religion; you can do nothing that can give greater glory to God or be more profitable for your soul than to hear Mass both frequently and devoutly. It is the favorite devotion of the saints.

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Faith, Inspiration, Giving

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• Confession is like a bridle that keeps the soul which reflects on it from committing sin, but anything left unconfessed we continue to do without fear as if in the dark.

  John Climacus

  Dark, Soul, Sin

  Saint John (Climacus) (1982). “John Climacus (CWS)”, p.107, Paulist Press

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• Our body is a cenacle, a monstrance: through its crystal the world should see God.

  Gianna Beretta Molla

  Faith, Inspiration, World

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• Everyone works in the service of man. We doctors work directly on man himself... The great mystery of man is Jesus: 'He who visits a sick person, helps me,' Jesus said... Just as the priest can touch Jesus, so do we touch Jesus in the bodies of our patients... We have opportunities to do good that the priest doesn't have. Our mission is not finished when medicines are no longer of use. We must bring the soul to God; our word has some authority... Catholic doctors are so necessary!

  Gianna Beretta Molla

  Faith, Jesus, Inspiration

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• To serve the Queen of Heaven is already to reign there, and to live under her commands is more than to govern.

  John Vianney

  Religious, Queens, Heaven

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• God draws straight with crooked lines.

  Andrew Greeley

  Lines, Draws, Crooked

  Andrew Greeley (2008). “Common Ground: A Priest and a Rabbi Read Scripture Together”, p.219, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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• We must remember that if all the manifestly good men were on one side and all the manifestly bad men on the other, there would be no danger of anyone, least of all the elect, being deceived by lying wonders. It is the good men, good once, we must hope good still, who are to do the work of Anti-Christ and so sadly to crucify the Lord afresh.... Bear in mind this feature of the last days, that this deceitfulness arises from good men being on the wrong side.

  Frederick William Faber

  Powerful, Lying, Men

  Frederick William Faber (1861). “Devotion to the Church”, p.27

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• The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Travel, Mind, Educated

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• You can always tell who went to catholic school, because they're atheists.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Sarcastic, Education, Religious

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• Jesus, help me to simplify my life by learning what you want me to be and becoming that person.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Faith, Jesus, Inspiration

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• One who belongs to the most vilified and persecuted minority in history is not likely to be insensible to the freedoms guaranteed by our Constitution... But as judges we are neither Jew nor Gentile, neither Catholic nor agnostic.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Judging, Minorities, Agnostic

  West Virginia State Bd. of Educ. v. Barnette (dissenting opinion) (1943)

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