It took like 5 hours to complete my virgin Mary. I was raised Catholic and it seemed like a good idea.
Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.
God is Love. We eventually have to ask ourselves the question; why was Love nailed to a cross?
Let us thank all those who teach in Catholic schools. Educating is an act of love; it is like giving life.
If the churches ever did reunite, it would have to be into something that was as sacramental and liturgical and authoritative as the Roman Catholic Church and as protesting against abuses and as much focused on the individual in his direct relationship with Christ as the Evangelicals, as charismatic as the Pentecostals, as missionary-minded as the old mainline denominations, as focused on holiness as the Methodists or the Quakers, as committed to the social aspects of the Gospel as the social activists, as Biblical as fundamentalists, and as mystical as the Eastern Orthodox.
First they went after the Communists, and I did not stand up, because I was not a Communist. Then they went after the homosexuals and infirm, and I did not stand up, because I was neither. Then they went after the Jews, and I did not stand up, because I was not a Jew. Then they went after the Catholics, and I did not stand up, because I was Protestant. Finally, they went after me, and there was no one left to stand up for me.
Temptation is necessary to make us realize that we are nothing in ourselves.
You cannot be half a saint; you must be a whole saint or no saint at all.
I have neither permitted, nor shall I permit, the things which have been settled by the holy fathers to be violated by any innovation.
Life with Christ is a wonderful adventure.
Beyond a doubt, they perish eternally who do not keep the Catholic faith entire and unchanged.
Any innovation in matters of faith is extremely pernicious and utterly damnable!
Marital love is a reflection of how God loves. It is free, total, faithful and fruitful.
Irish Catholics are more interested in the rosary beads than in the rosary.
Time spent in honor of God for the salvation of souls is never badly spent.
The catholic church has a lot more money than any Colombian cartel and they leave a lot more bodies in their wake.
He [Christ] protects their faith and gives strength to believers in proportion to the trust that each man who receives that strength is willing to place in him.
Your soul must hold fast to Him, you must follow after Him in your thoughts, you must tread His ways by faith, not in outward show.
I tell you that victory consists in conquering self. That is the greatest enemy.
A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.
I'm not Catholic, but I gave up picking my belly button for lint.
In a world that has lost a sense of sin, one sin remains: Thou shalt not make people feel guilty (except, of course, about making people feel guilty). In other words, the only sin today is to call something a sin.
If we want to know what's most sacred in this world, all we need to do is look for what is most violently profaned.
Whatever skills I have acquired, whatever gifts I have been given, I place them at Your service.
Let no Christian therefore, whether philosopher or theologian, embrace eagerly and lightly whatever novelty happens to be thought up from day to day, but rather let him weigh it with painstaking care and a balanced judgment, lest he lose or corrupt the truth he already has, with grave danger and damage to his faith.
