Catholic Quotes - Page 16

If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!

Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks of chastity, but the whole body reveals impurity.

True humility scarcely ever utters words of humility.

Let nothing novel be introduced!

War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future.

It is Jesus who stirs in you the desire to do something great with your lives, the will to follow an ideal, the refusal to allow yourselves to be ground down by mediocrity, the courage to commit yourselves humbly and patiently to improving yourselves and society, making the world more human and more fraternal.

Let us remember Paul VI's words: "For the Catholic Church, no one is a stranger, no one is excluded, no one is far away" (Homily for the closing of the Second Vatican Council, 8 December 1965). Indeed, we are a single human family that is journeying on toward unity, making the most of solidarity and dialogue among peoples in the multiplicity of differences.

In the Catholic Worker we must try to have the voluntary poverty of St. Francis, the charity of St. Vincent de Paul, the intellectual approach of St. Dominic, the easy conversations about things that matter of St. Philip Neri, the manual labor of St. Benedict.

Show business offers more solid promises than Catholicism.

In the end, forever, you and I will be in Heaven or Hell. Period.

If you were Catholic, you'd singe the ears of the priest you confessed to.

I'm not a beatnik. I'm a Catholic.

But the saints are never the kind of killjoy spinster aunts who go in for faultfinding and lack all sense of humor. (Nor should the Karl Barth who so loved and understood Mozart be regarded as such.)For humor is a mysterious but unmistakable charism inseparable from Catholic faith, and neither the "progressives" nor the "integralists" seem to possess it - the latter even less than the former.

Never measure your generosity by what you give, but rather by what you have left.

There's only one difference between Jews and Catholics. Jews are born with guilt, and Catholics have to go to school to learn it.

Contemporary Christianity, diverse and complex as we find it, actually may show more unanimity than the Christian churches of the first and second centuries. For nearly all Christians since that time, Catholics, Protestants, or Orthodox, have shared three basic premises. First, they accept the canon of the New Testament; second, they confess the apostolic creed; and third, they affirm specific forms of church institution. But every one of these - the canon of Scripture, the creed, and the institutional structure - emerged in its present form only toward the end of the second century.

When it comes to labor and politics, I am inclined to be sympathetic to the left, but when it comes to the Catholic Church, then I am far to the right.

Holiness is not first a matter of doing anything. It is first and foremost a matter of letting it be done. Holiness is to conceive the love of God within and to bring it forth to the world.

Wee do freely profess that our Lord the King hath no more power over their Roman Catholics' coonsciences than over ours, and that is none at all ... let people be heretikes, Turks, Jews, or whatsoever, it apperteynes not to the earthly power to punish them in the least measure.

In the realm of evil thoughts none induces to sin as much as do thoughts that concern the pleasure of the flesh.

Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.

For nothing, how little soever, that is suffered for God's sake, can pass without merit in the sight of God.

I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.

God bestows more consideration on the purity of the intention with which our actions are performed than on the actions themselves.

The purpose of all wars, is peace.