Catholic Quotes - Page 9

• You've got to be centered on Christ. It's a work of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit forms Jesus within us. No cross? No crown. No pain? No gain. No way around it - if there was a shortcut, I'd know it and I'd tell ya.

  John Corapi

  Christian, Religious, 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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• We all have in our hearts some areas of unbelief. Let us say to the Lord: I believe! Help my unbelief.

  Pope Francis

  Faith, Christian, Religious

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• There is no such thing as low-cost Christianity. Following Jesus means swimming against the tide, renouncing evil and selfishness

  Pope Francis

  God, Faith, Christian

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• You know my God. My God is called love

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Inspirational, God

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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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• 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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• 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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• As soon as I came to believe there was a God, I understood that I could not do otherwise than live only for him.

  Charles de Foucauld

  God, Faith, Christian

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• In the poor and outcast we see Christ’s face; by loving and helping the poor, we love and serve Christ.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Religious, Jesus

  Pope Francis (2015). “The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation”, p.107, SPCK

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• Let us never give in to pessimism, to that bitterness that the devil offers us every day. Do not give in to pessimism and discouragement. We have the firm certainty that the Holy Spirit gives the Church with His mighty breath, the courage to persevere and also to seek new methods of evangelization, to bring the Gospel to the ends of the earth.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Religious, Courage

  "Vatican denies claim that Pope Francis failed to protect Argentina priests" By Laura Smith-Spark, Hada Messia, www.cnn.com. March 15, 2013.

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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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• ...whoever is guided solely by his own judgment and decision will never climb up to the summit of perfection and will not fail to be the victim of the devil's ruinous power to delude.

  John Cassian

  Christian, Failure, Power

  John Cassian, Colm Luibhéid (1985). “Conferences”, p.79, Paulist Press

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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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• In this Year of Faith, we pray to the Lord that the Church may always be a true family that brings God’s love to everyone.

  Pope Francis

  God, Faith, Christian

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• Miracles happen. But prayer is needed! Prayer that is courageous, struggling and persevering, not prayer that is a mere formality.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Prayer, Struggle

  Pope Francis (2015). “The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation”, p.72, SPCK

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• Gratitude is a flower that blooms in noble souls.

  Pope Francis

  Gratitude, Flower, Being Thankful

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• Our prayer cannot be reduced to an hour on Sundays. It is important to have a daily relationship with the Lord.

  Pope Francis

  Relationship, God, Christian

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• Let everyone who has the grace of intelligence fear that, because of it, he will be judged more heavily if he is negligent.

  Bridget of Sweden

  Religious, Fear, Judging

  Saint Bridget (of Sweden), Marguerite Tjader Harris, Albert Ryle Kezel (1990). “Life and Selected Revelations”, p.136, Paulist Press

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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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