Catholicism Quotes

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

  Pope Pius X

  True Friend, People, 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother.

  Martin Sheen

  God, Mother, Believe

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• Whether, therefore, we receive what we ask for, or do not receive it, let us still continue steadfast in prayer. For to fail in obtaining the desires of our heart, when God so wills it, is not worse than to receive it; for we know not as He does, what is profitable to us.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Prayer, Heart, Catholic

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• Ham will continue to be servant of servants, as the Lord decreed, until the curse is removed. will the present struggle free the slave? No; but they are now wasting away the black race by thousands.... Treat the slaves kindly and let them live, for Ham must be the servant of servants until the curse is removed. Can you destroy the decrees of the Almighty? You cannot. Yet our Christian brethren think that they are going to overthrow the sentence of the Almighty upon the seed of Ham. They cannot do that, though they may kill them by thousands and tens of thousands.

  Brigham Young

  Christian, Struggle, Thinking

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• The founders of that ancient empire were robbers and women stealers, and made laws favoring monogamy in consequence of the scarcity of women among them, and hence this monogamic system which now prevails throughout all Christendom, and which has been so fruitful a source of prostitution and whoredom throughout all the Christian monogamic cities of the Old and New World, until rottenness and decay are at the root of their institutions both national and religious.

  Brigham Young

  Christian, Religious, Roots

  Brigham Young (1867). “Journal of Discourses”, p.128

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• True charity consists in doing good to those who do us evil, and in thus winning them over.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Winning, Evil, Catholic

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• Love is the most necessary of all virtues. Love in the person who preaches the word of God is like fire in a musket. If a person were to throw a bullet with his hands, he would hardly make a dent in anything; but if the person takes the same bullet and ignites some gunpowder behind it, it can kill. It is much the same with the word of God. If it is spoken by someone who is filled with the fire of charity- the fire of love of God and neighbor- it will work wonders.

  Anthony Mary Claret

  Love, Christian, Fire

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• Charity is that with which no man is lost, and without which no man is saved.

  Robert Bellarmine

  Religious, Men, People

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• Love God, serve God; everything is in that.

  Clare of Assisi

  Catholic, Saint, God Love

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• Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church; by means of that prayer the Church prays, since it is the Holy Spirit living in the Church, Who in every single soul 'prays in us with unspeakable groanings'.

  Edith Stein

  Prayer, Mean, Catholic

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• Faith is like a bright ray of sun light. It enables us to see God in all things as well as all things in God.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Light, Sun, Rays

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• And the angel said unto me: Behold the formation of a church which is most abominable above all other churches, which slayeth the saints of God, yea, and tortureth them and bindeth them down, and yoketh them with a yoke of iron, and bringeth them down into captivity.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Angel, Iron, Church

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• We must not seek the child Jesus in the pretty figures of our Christmas cribs. We must seek him among the undernourished children who have gone to bed at night with nothing to eat, among the poor newsboys who will sleep covered with newspapers in doorways.

  Oscar Romero

  Jesus, Children, Sleep

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• This law of monogamy, or the monogamic system, laid the foundation for prostitution and the evils and diseases of the most revolting nature and character under which modern Christendom groans.

  Orson Pratt

  Character, Law, Evil

  Orson Pratt (1874). “The Bible & Polygamy: Does the Bible Sanction Polygamy? A Discussion Between Professor Orson Pratt and Rev. Doctor J.P. Newman in the New Tabernacle, Salt Lake City, August 12, 13, and 14, 1870”, p.83

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• And the angel spake unto me, saying: Behold the gold, and the silver, and the silks, and the scarlets, and the fine-twined linen, and the precious clothing, and the harlots, are the desires of this great and abominable church.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Angel, Desire, Gold

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• In the Catholic Church, there are many other things which most justly keep me in her bosom. The consent of peoples and nations keeps me in the Church; so does her authority, inaugurated by miracles, nourished by hope, enlarged by love, established by age. The succession of priests keeps me, beginning from the very seat of the Apostle Peter, to whom the Lord, after His resurrection, gave it in charge to feed His sheep (Jn 21:15-19), down to the present episcopate.

  Saint Augustine

  Sheep, Miracle, Catholic

  Saint Augustine of Hippo (2016). “Saint Augustine of Hippo Collection [50 Books]”, p.1259, Aeterna Press

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• And so, lastly, does the very name of "Catholic", which, not without reason, amid so many heresies, the Church has thus retained; so that, though all heretics wish to be called Catholics, yet when a stranger asks where the Catholic Church meets, no heretic will venture to point to his own chapel or house.

  Saint Augustine

  Names, House, Catholic

  Saint Augustine of Hippo (2016). “Saint Augustine of Hippo Collection [50 Books]”, p.1259, Aeterna Press

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• All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Philosophical, Thoughtful, Love Is

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• The Church's basic moral principle regarding reproductive technologies is this: if a given technology assists the marital embrace in achieving its natural end, it can be morally acceptable, even praiseworthy. However, if it replaces the marital embrace as the means by which the child is conceived, it's not in keeping with God's design.

  Christopher West

  Children, Mean, Technology

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