Catholic Quotes - Page 9

• I cannot sufficiently be astonished that such is the insanity of some men, such the impiety of their blinded understanding, such, finally, their lust after error, that they will not be content with the rule of faith delivered once and for all from antiquity, but must daily seek after something new, and even newer still, and are always longing to add something to religion, or to change it, or to subtract from it!

  Vincent of Lerins

  Men, Errors, Insanity

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• The devil is always discovering something novel against the truth.

  Pope Leo I

  Devil, Novel, Discovering Something

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• We do not innovate anything ... How is it that novelties are introduced which were never even thought of by our predecessors?

  Ambrose

  Novelty, Predecessors

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• Whosoever you are who introduce new doctrines, I beseech you to spare the ears of Romans! Spare that faith which was commended by the voice of an Apostle. Why should you attempt to teach us, at the end of hundreds of years, that which we never heard before? Why bring forward what Peter and Paul did not will to make known? Until this day, the world was Christian without your doctrine. Thus, I hold as an old man onto that faith wherein I was regenerated as a boy.

  St. Jerome

  Christian, Boys, Men

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• All novelty in faith is a sure mark of heresy.

  Vincent of Lerins

  Novelty, Mark, Heresy

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• Any innovation in matters of faith is extremely pernicious and utterly damnable!

  John Eudes

  Innovation, Matter, Pernicious

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• New revelations regarding faith or morals ... have always been abhorred and challenged in the Church ... Hence, the Sovereign Pontiffs, the Councils, and the Fathers have been most careful to reject all novelties or new doctrines on matters of faith which differed from those already received.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Father, Church, Matter

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• I was brought up Catholic, and my family is still very religious.

  Donna Mills

  Religious, My Family, Stills

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• I think one of the unique aspects of Catholic school education is the opportunity to care for the material and intellectual needs of the child in a community atmosphere.

  Mark Foley

  Children, School, Unique

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• Let us pray for peace: peace in the world and in each of our hearts.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Peace, Prayer

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• Dear young people, don't be afraid to marry. A faithful and fruitful marriage will bring you happiness.

  Pope Francis

  Relationship, Happiness, Happy

  Pope Francis “The Blessing of Family: Inspiring Words from Pope Francis”, Franciscan Media

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• We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.

  John Henry Newman

  Inspirational, Friends, Attitude

  Blessed John Henry Newman, Aeterna Press (2009). “The Idea of a University”, p.170, Aeterna Press

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• Without Easter, Good Friday would have no meaning. Without Easter, there would be no hope that suffering and abandonment might be tolerable. But with Easter, a way out becomes visible for human sorrows, an absolute future: more than a hope, a divine expectation.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  God, Friday, Spiritual

  Hans Von Balthasar, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Adrienne von Speyr (2010). “To the Heart of the Mystery of Redemption”, p.39, Ignatius Press

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• When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony.

  Pope Pius XI

  God, Christian, Jesus

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• In life we do many things, say many things, but the voice of suffering offered out of love - which is perhaps unheard by and unknown to others - is the loudest cry that can penetrate Heaven

  Chiara Lubich

  Love, Life, Loud Voices

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• Sometimes it may seem to us that there is no purpose in our lives, that going day after day for years to this office or that school or factory is nothing else but waste and weariness. But it may be that God has sent us there because but for us, Christ would not be there. If our being there means that Christ is there, that alone makes it worthwhile.

  Caryll Houselander

  Life, God, Religious

  Caryll Houselander, Marie Anne Mayeski (1991). “A Rocking-Horse Catholic: A Caryll Houselander Reader”, p.74, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Christ has made my soul beautiful with the jewels of grace and virtue. I belong to Him Whom the Angels serve.

  Agnes of Rome

  Beautiful, God, Christian

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• He who desires anything but God deceives himself, and he who loves anything but God errs miserably.

  Philip Neri

  Love, God, Christian

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• Hold your eyes on God and leave the doing to him. That is all the doing you have to worry about.

  Jane Frances de Chantal

  God, Christian, Eye

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• Do not try to excuse your faults; try to correct them

  John Bosco

  Imperfection, Trying, Saint

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• Anyone, then, who desires to live chastely in Christ Jesus, must flee not only the mouse of lust, but even from its very scent.

  Anthony of Padua

  God, Christian, Religious

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• Wars shatter so many lives. I think especially of children robbed of their childhood.

  Pope Francis

  Children, War, Thinking

  Pope Francis (2015). “The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation”, p.160, SPCK

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• Auschwitz cries out with the pain of immense suffering and pleads for a future of respect, peace and encounter among peoples.

  Pope Francis

  Respect, Peace, Pain

  Pope Francis‏ @Pontifex, twitter.com. January 27, 2015.

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• If we live the faith in our daily life, then our work too becomes a chance to spread the joy of being a Christian.

  Pope Francis

  God, Faith, Christian

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• God does not reveal himself in strength or power, but in the weakness and fragility of a newborn babe.

  Pope Francis

  Strength, God, Christian

  Pope Francis “The Blessing of Family: Inspiring Words from Pope Francis”, Franciscan Media

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