Catholicism Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• Be obedient to the bishop and to one another, as Jesus Christ was in the flesh to the Father, and the apostles to Christ and to the Father and to the Spirit, so that there may be unity in flesh and in spirit.

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Jesus, Father, Catholic

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• Grant that we may be one flock and one shepherd! Do not allow your net to be torn, help us to be servants of unity!

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Catholic, Unity, Shepherds

  "Mass, Imposition of the Pallium And Conferral of the Fisherman's Ring For the Beginning of the Petrine Ministry Of the Bishop of Rome". Speech by Pope Benedict XVI at the St. Peter's Square, w2.vatican.va. April 24, 2005.

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• Advent is the spiritual season of hope par excellence, and in this season the whole Church is called to be hope, for itself and for the world.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Spiritual, Excellence, Church

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• The Lord did nothing either of himself or through his apostles without his Father, with whom he is united; so too, you should undertake nothing without the bishop and the presbyters priests.

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Father, Catholic, Bishops

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• Give something, however small, to the one in need. For it is not small to one who has nothing. Neither is it small to God, if we have given what we could.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Giving, Catholic, Saint

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• Wherever the bishop shall appear, there let the multitude also be; even as, wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church.

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Jesus, Catholic, Church

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• There is one God and one Christ, and one Church, and one chair founded on Peter by the word of the Lord. It is not possible to set up another altar or for there to be another priesthood besides that one altar and that one priesthood. Whoever has gathered elsewhere is scattering.

  Cyprian

  Church, Christ, Lord

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• Don't you long to shout to those youths who are bustling around you: Fools! Leave those worldly things that shackle the heart - and very often degrade it - leave all that and come with us in search of Love!

  Josemaria Escriva

  Heart, Long, Saint

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• It is impossible to approve in Catholic publications of a style inspired by unsound novelty which seems to deride the piety of the faithful and dwells on the introduction of a new order of Christian life, on new directions of the Church, on new aspirations of the modern soul, on a new vocation of the clergy, on a new Christian civilisation.

  Pope Pius X

  Christian, Order, Faithful

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• Take care, then, to be firmly grounded in the teachings of the Lord and his apostles so that you may prosper in all your doings both in body and in soul, in faith and in love, in the Son, and in the Father and in the Spirit, in the beginning and in the end, along with your most worthy bishop and his spiritual crown, your presbyters, and with the deacons, who are men of God.

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Spiritual, Father, Teaching

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• But look at the men who have those perverted notions about the grace of Jesus Christ which has come down to us, and see how contrary to the mind of God they are. . . . They even abstain from the Eucharist and from the public prayers, because they will not admit that the Eucharist is the self-same body of our Savior Jesus Christ which flesh suffered for our sins, and which the Father of His goodness raised up again.

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Jesus, Prayer, Father

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• Let us go forward in peace, our eyes upon heaven, the only one goal of our labors.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Eye, Goal, Heaven

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• They knew only too well the intimate bond which unites faith with worship, 'the law of belief with the law of prayer,' and so, under the pretext of restoring it to its primitive form, they corrupted the order of the liturgy in many respects to adapt it to the errors of the Innovators.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Prayer, Errors, Order

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• To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Philosophical, Hands, 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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• If we truly think of Christ as our source of holiness, we shall refrain from anything wicked or impure in thought or act and thus show ourselves to be worthy bearers of his name. For the quality of holiness is shown not by what we say but by what we do in life.

  Gregory of Nyssa

  Life, Christian, Jesus

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• Never forget that there are only two philosophies to rule your life: the one of the cross, which starts with the fast and ends with the feast. The other of Satan, which starts with the feast and ends with the headache.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Philosophy, Two, Catholic

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• On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every commandment. Everything else we do is a means to an end. But love is an end already, since God is love.

  Edith Stein

  Spiritual, Mean, Love Is

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• Apart from the cross, there is no other ladder by which we may get to heaven.

  Rose of Lima

  God, Faith, Christian

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

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Catholic, Religion, Popcorn

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• If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.

  Lenny Bruce

  Jesus, Children, School

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