Catholic Quotes - Page 5

• Because of its divine institution for the propagation of man, the seed is not to be vainly ejaculated, nor is it to be damaged, nor is it to be wasted.

  Pope Clement I

  Men, Divine, Institutions

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• The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins.

  Saint Patrick

  Heart, Understanding, Sin

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• Haste is of the Devil.

  St. Jerome

  Devil, Haste

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• Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.

  Teresa of Avila

  Inspirational, Humility, Saint

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1946). “Book of the foundations. Minor prose works. Poems. Documents. Indices”

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• To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.

  Teresa of Avila

  Humility, Saint, Gone

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• Receiving the Eucharist means adoring Him whom we receive. Only in this way do we become one with Him, and are given, as it were, a foretaste of the beauty of the heavenly liturgy. The act of adoration outside Mass prolongs and intensifies all that takes place during the liturgical celebration itself.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Mean, Holy Eucharist, Receiving

  Alcuin Reid, Pope Benedict XVI (2012). “From Eucharistic Adoration to Evangelization”, p.81, A&C Black

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• Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Saint, Deeds, Brilliant

  St. Therese of Lisieux (1915). “Thoughts of Saint Thérèse”, p.8, TAN Books

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• Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire.

  Pope John Paul II

  Hard Work, People, Evil

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• Marriage is a living sign that truly communicates the love of Christ and the Church.

  Christopher West

  Church, Christ, Communicate

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• The way to begin healing the wounds of the world is to treasure the Infant Christ in us; to be not the castle but the cradle of Christ; and, in rocking that cradle to the rhythm of love, to swing the whole world back into the beat of the Music of Eternal Life.

  Caryll Houselander

  Faith, Inspiration, Healing

  Caryll Houselander, Thomas Hoffman (2000). “A Child in Winter: Advent, Christmas and Epiphany with Caryll Houselander”, p.52, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Badness cannot succeed even in being bad in the same way in which goodness is good. Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness. Evil is a parasite, not an original thing.

  C. S. Lewis

  Evil, Way, Succeed

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.50, HarperCollins UK

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• Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.

  John Henry Newman

  Soul, And Love, Purity

  John Henry Newman, James Tolhurst (1849). “Discourses Addressed to Mixed Congregations”, p.63, Gracewing Publishing

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• Many who confess their venial sins out of custom and concern for order but without thought of amendment remain burdened with them for their whole life and thus lose many spiritual benefits and advantages.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Spiritual, Order, Benefits

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• True humility scarcely ever utters words of humility.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Humility, True Humility

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• I had to have some balls to be Irish Catholic in South London. Most of that time I spent fighting.

  Pierce Brosnan

  Fighting, Balls, London

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• We can never attain to perfection while we have an affection for any imperfection.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Perfection, Imperfection, Affection

  Saint Francis de Sales, Aeterna Press (2015). “The Spiritual Maxims of Saint Francis de Sales”, p.15, Aeterna Press

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• The observance of Lent is the very badge of Christian warfare. By it we prove ourselves not to be enemies of Christ. By it we avert the scourges of divine justice. By it we gain strength against the princes of darkness, for it shields us with heavenly help. Should men grow remiss in their observance of Lent, it would be a detriment to God’s glory, a disgrace to the Catholic religion, and a danger to Christian souls. Neither can it be doubted that such negligence would become the source of misery to the world, of public calamity, and of private woe.

  Pope Benedict XIV

  Christian, Men, Catholic Religion

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• Fly to the Catholic Church! Adhere to the only faith which continues to exist from the beginning, that faith which was preached by Paul and is upheld by the Chair of Peter.

  Hippolytus of Rome

  Church, Chairs, Peter

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• In 1953 there were two ways for an Irish Catholic boy to impress his parents: become a priest or attend Notre Dame.

  Phil Donahue

  Boys, Two, Parent

  Phil Donahue (1979). “My own story, Donahue”

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• The preaching of the Church truly continues without change and is everywhere the same. It has the testimony of the Prophets and Apostles and all their disciples.

  Irenaeus of Lyons

  Church, Prophet, Testimony

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• The Puritan has passed; the Catholic remains.

  William Henry O'Connell

  Puritan, Remains

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• In God, the characteristics of men and women that we admire in men and women are combined. That's been a traditional Catholic teaching that God is the combination of opposites.

  Andrew Greeley

  Teaching, Men, Opposites

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• If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

  Saint Augustine

  Friendship, Hands, Two Friends

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• Once a Catholic always a Catholic.

  Angus Wilson

  'The Wrong Set' (1949) p. 168

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• True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

  St. Jerome

  Friendship, Thinking, Qualities Of A Friend

  St. Jerome (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)”, p.354, Jazzybee Verlag

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