Catholicism Quotes

• Anyone who has discovered Christ must lead others to him. A great joy cannot be kept to oneself. It has to be passed on.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Joy, Christ, Oneself

  Pope Benedict XVI (2010). “Heart of the Christian Life: Thoughts on the Holy Mass”, p.25, Ignatius Press

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• Brothers, you came from our own people. You are killing your own brothers. Any human order to kill must be subordinate to the law of God, which says, 'Thou shalt not kill'. No soldier is obliged to obey an order contrary to the law of God. No one has to obey an immoral law. It is high time you obeyed your consciences rather than sinful orders. The church cannot remain silent before such an abomination. ...In the name of God, in the name of this suffering people whose cry rises to heaven more loudly each day, I implore you, I beg you, I order you: stop the repression.

  Oscar Romero

  Brother, Names, Order

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• In the sacraments, spirit and matter "kiss." Heaven and earth embrace in a union that will never end.

  Christopher West

  Kissing, Heaven, Catholic

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• You cannot be half a saint; you must be a whole saint or no saint at all.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Catholic, Saint, Half

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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

  Catholic, Evolution, Results

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  Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Catholic, Religion, Popcorn

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• Holy Communion is the shortest and safest way to heaven.

  Pope Pius X

  Holy Eucharist, Christian Inspirational, Heaven

  "Quotable Saints". Book by Ronda Chervin, p. 79, 2003.

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• Pray, Hope, and Don't Worry

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Spiritual, Worry, Catholic

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• I am not capable of doing big things, but I want to do everything, even the smallest things, for the greater glory of God.

  Dominic Savio

  God, Religious, Christian Inspirational

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• Christianity even when watered down is hot enough to boil all modern society to rags.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Rags, Hot, Christianity

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Love, God, Faith

  Saint Bernard (of Clairvaux) (2007). “Honey and Salt: Selected Spiritual Writings of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux”, Vintage

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• The nation doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are.

  Edith Stein

  Christian Inspirational, Catholic, Needs

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• We are building a dictatorship of relativism that does not recognize anything as definitive and whose ultimate goal consists solely of one's own ego and desires.
  We, however, have a different goal: the Son of God, the true man. He is the measure of true humanism. An "adult" faith is not a faith that follows the trends of fashion and the latest novelty; a mature adult faith is deeply rooted in friendship with Christ.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Moving, Catholic, Ego

  Pope Benedict XVI's Homily during a Mass at St. Peter's Basilica before the conclave of cardinals, www.vatican.va. April 18, 2005.

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• Well, I think that Catholicism's basic foundation of faith is personal conscience. I think it's between you and God, not you and the Church.

  Martin Sheen

  Faith, Thinking, Catholic

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• I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Forgiveness, Thinking

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.148, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When the problems in Northern Ireland started, it was not a question of Protestantism or Catholicism, because the Catholic church was the only church at that time-it was a nationalist conflict.

  Harri Holkeri

  Catholic, Church, Problem

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• In regard to religion, mutual toleration in the different professions thereof is what all good and candid minds in all ages have ever practiced, and both by precept and example inculcated on mankind.

  Samuel Adams

  Mind, Atheism, Age

  John White, Cecil Calvert Baltimore (2d Baron), Charles Hudson, Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson, Massachusetts Historical Society (1904). “The planting of colonies in New England”

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• Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.

  Peter Kreeft

  Faith, Inspiration, Heart

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• The true friends of the people are neither revolutionaries, nor innovators, but traditionalists.

  Pope Pius X

  True Friend, People, Catholic

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• We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.

  Teresa of Avila

  Religious, Catholic, Suffering

  St. Teresa of Avila (2002). “Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila”, p.345, A&C Black

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• Show business offers more solid promises than Catholicism.

  John Guare

  Business, Catholic, Promise

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• I suppose you could sum up the religious aspects of my boyhood by saying it was a time of life when I was taught the difference between right and wrong as it specifically applied to Catholicism.

  Robert Vaughn

  Religious, Differences, Catholic

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• To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause with the birth of the modern world, is to experience a kind of straining against reality, a rebellious nonconformity that, again, is rare in America, where children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.

  Mary McCarthy

  Children, Past, Reality

  Mary McCarthy (2011). “Memories Of A Catholic Girlhood”, p.16, Random House

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• When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Mother, Buddhist, Catholic

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• What does the poor man do at the rich man's door, the sick man in the presence of his physician, the thirsty man at a limpid stream? What they do, I do before the Eucharistic God. I pray. I adore. I love.

  Francis of Assisi

  Men, Doors, Sick

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