Catholic Quotes

There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.

Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.

Faith is what gets you started. Hope is what keeps you going. Love is what brings you to the end.

Love God, serve God; everything is in that.

Do everything calmly and peacefully. Do as much as you can as well as you can. Strive to see God in all things without exception, and consent to His will joyously. Do everything for God, uniting yourself to him in word and deed. Walk very simply with the Cross of the Lord and be at peace with yourself.

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

Be a Catholic: When you kneel before an altar, do it in such a way that others may be able to recognize that you know before whom you kneel.

Whenever anything disagreeable or displeasing happens to you, remember Christ crucified and be silent.

A man who governs his passions is master of his world. We must either command them or be enslaved by them. It is better to be a hammer than an anvil.

Do not forget that true love sets no conditions; it does not calculate or complain, but simply loves.

The spirit of humility is sweeter than honey, and those who nourish themselves with this honey produce sweet fruit.

First they came for the Jews, but I did nothing because I'm not a Jew. Then they came for the socialists, but I did nothing because I'm not a socialist. Then they came for the Catholics, but I did nothing because I'm not a Catholic. Finally, they came for me, but by then there was no one left to help me.

We've had enough of exhortations to be silent! Cry out with a hundred thousand tongues. I see that the world is rotten because of silence.

The way Jesus shows you is not easy. Rather, it is like a path winding up a mountain. Do not lose heart! The steeper the road, the faster it rises towards ever wider horizons.

The gate of heaven is very low; only the humble can enter it.

A Catholic may sin and sin as badly as anyone else, but no genuine Catholic ever denies he is a sinner. A Catholic wants his sins forgiven - not excused or sublimated.

God is not satisfied with appearance. God wants the garment of justice. God wants his Christians dressed in love.

We suffer with those who have disappeared, those who have had to flee their homes, and those who have been tortured.

If I were not a Catholic, and were looking for the true Church in the world today, I would look for the one Church which did not get along well with the world; in other words, I would look for the Church which the world hated.

Do not try to excuse your faults; try to correct them

Remember that nothing is small in the eyes of God. Do all that you do with love.

We must sow the seed, not hoard it.

It is impossible for us not to speak about what we have seen and heard.

Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.

Whenever you begin any good work you should first of all make a most pressing appeal to Christ our Lord to bring it to perfection.