Christian Inspirational Quotes - Page 31

• The Magi are filled with awe by what they see; heaven on earth and earth in heaven; man in God and God in man; they see enclosed in a tiny body the One whom the entire world cannot contain.

  Peter Chrysologus

  Faith, Inspiration, Men

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• The human person is a unique composite - a unity of spirit and matter, soul and body, fashioned in the image of God and destined to live forever. Every human life is sacred, because every human person is sacred.

  Pope John Paul II

  Faith, Inspiration, Unique

  Pope John Paul II, Greg Burke (1999). “An Invitation to Joy”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• Love looks to the eternal. Love is indeed "ecstasy," not in the sense of a moment of intoxication, but rather as a journey, an on-going exodus out of the closed inward-looking self toward its liberation through self-giving... toward authentic self-discovery and indeed the discovery of God.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Inspiration, Journey

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• Throughout history there have been many men and women who have chosen to imitate Jesus as he withdraws into the desert... To pass time in the desert means to create a little emptiness and silence around us, to rediscover the road to our heart, to remove ourselves from the noise and external distractions, to enter into contact with the deepest source of our being and our faith.

  Raniero Cantalamessa

  Faith, Jesus, Inspiration

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• One solitary God-centered, God-intoxicated man can do more to keep God's love alive and His presence felt in the world than a thousand half-hearted, talkative busy men living frightened, fragmented lives of quiet desperation.

  Robert McNamara

  Faith, Inspiration, Men

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• Each morning we must hold out the chalice of our being to receive, to carry, and give back. It must be held out empty - for the past must only be reflected in its polish, its shape, its capacity.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Faith, Morning, Inspiration

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• At the judgment, in response to our questions, the Lord will show us his wounds, and we will understand. In the meantime, however, he simply expects us to stand by him and to believe what these wounds tell us, even though we cannot work right through the logic of this world.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Inspiration, Believe

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• Only from God does true revolution come... the definitive way to change the world.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Inspiration, Doe

  Pope Benedict XVI (2006). “God's Revolution: World Youth Day and Other Cologne Talks”, p.49, Ignatius Press

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• All the troubles of the Church, all the evils in the world, flow from this source: that men do not by clear and sound knowledge and serious consideration penetrate into the truths of Sacred Scripture.

  Teresa of Avila

  Faith, Inspiration, Men

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• It has always been one of my unclerical sermons to myself, that that remark which Peter made on seeing the vision of a single hour, ought to be made by us all, in contemplating every panoramic change in the long Vision we call life... "It is good for us to be here - it is good for us to be here", repeating itself eternally.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Faith, Inspiration, Long

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• The world needs transparent lives, clear souls, pure minds that refuse to be perceived as mere objects of pleasure.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Inspiration, Soul

  Pope Benedict XVI (2011). “Holiness Is Always in Season”, p.320, Ignatius Press

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• The cross means there is no shipwreck without hope; there is no dark without dawn; nor storm without haven.

  Pope John Paul II

  Faith, Inspiration, Mean

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• Eternal Trinity... mystery deep as the sea, You could give me no greater gift than the gift of Yourself. For You are a fire ever burning and never consumed, which itself consumes all the selfish love that fills my being.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Faith, Selfish, Inspiration

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• Holy is the dish and drain, the soap and sink, and the cup and plate and the warm wool socks, and the cold white tile, showerheads and good dry towelsand frying eggs sound like psalms, with bits of salt measured in my palm. It's all a part of a sacrament, as holy as a day is spent.

  Carrie Newcomer

  Faith, Inspiration, Eggs

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• Everything is a grace, everything is the direct effect of our Father's love - difficulties, contradictions, humiliations, all the soul's miseries, her burdens, her needs - everything, because through them, she learns humility, realizes her weakness. Everything is a grace because everything is God's gift. Whatever be the character of life or its unexpected events - to the heart that loves, all is well.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Faith, Father, Inspiration

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• The brilliance of contemplated beauty opens the spirit to the mystery of God.

  Angelo Sodano

  Faith, Inspiration, Spirit

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• Each time we look upon the poor, on the farmworkers who harvest the coffee, the sugarcane, or the cotton... remember, there is the face of Christ.

  Oscar Romero

  Faith, Inspiration, Coffee

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• To love is to be transformed into what we love. To love God is therefore to be transformed into God.

  John of the Cross

  Faith, Inspiration, Love Is

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• The highest things, the things that really matter, we cannot achieve on our own; we have to accept them as gifts and enter in to the dynamic of the gift, so to speak.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Inspiration, Matter

  Pope Benedict XVI, Joseph Ratzinger (2007). “Jesus of Nazareth: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration”, p.268, Image

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• The Rosary is the book of the blind, where souls see and there enact the greatest drama of love the world has ever known; it is the book of the simple, which initiates them into mysteries and knowledge more satisfying than the education of other men.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Faith, Drama, Book

  "The World's First Love".

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• The Holy Spirit knows what a particular age's most pressing need is far better than men with their programs.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Faith, Inspiration, Men

  Hans Urs von Balthasar (1987). “Truth is Symphonic: Aspects of Christian Pluralism”, p.97, Ignatius Press

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• For in this world, marked by sin, the gravitational pull of our lives is weighted by the chains of the "I" and the "self." These chains must be broken to free us for a new love that places us in another gravitational field where we can enter new life.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Inspiration, Self

  Pope Benedict XVI (2009). “Jesus of Nazareth”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• If I ever become a Saint - I will surely be one of "darkness." I will continually be absent from heaven - to light the light of those in darkness on earth.

  Mother Teresa

  Faith, Inspiration, Light

  Mother Teresa (2016). “A Call to Mercy: Hearts to Love, Hands to Serve”, p.106, Image

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• I had rather be in hell with Christ, than be in heaven without him.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Heaven, Hell

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• It ought to be the business of every day to prepare for our last day.

  Matthew Henry

  Christian, Lasts, Last Day

  Matthew Henry (1866). “Directions for daily communion with God, in 3 discourses, and The communicant's companion”, p.81

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