Catholic Quotes - Page 4

Help me, O Lord, that my hands may be merciful and filled with good deeds, so that I may do only good to my neighbors.

The Lord has turned all our sunsets into sunrise.

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

Pray, Hope, and Don't Worry

Better that only a few Catholics should be left, staunch and sincere in their religion, than that they should, remaining many, desire as it were, to be in collusion with the Church's enemies and in conformity with the open foes of our faith.

To sing is to pray twice.

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.

God is not only true, but Truth itself.

When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.

Catholics are born for combat.

On the one hand, we all want to be happy. On the other hand, we all know the things that make us happy. But we don't do those things. Why? Simple. We are too busy. Too busy doing what? Too busy trying to be happy. This is the paradox of happiness that has bewitched our age.

Peace is defined as harmony among those who are divided. When, therefore, we end the civil war within our nature and cultivate peace within ourselves, we become at peace.

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

To love God is something greater than to know Him.

The Catholic Church is an institution I am bound to hold divine - but for unbelievers a proof of its divinity might be found in the fact that no merely human institution conducted with such knavish imbecility would have lasted a fortnight.

Many, many people hereabouts are not becoming Christians for one reason only: there is nobody to make them Christians.

No one is truly poor but except the one who lacks the truth.

Euthanasia is a grave violation of the law of God, since it is the deliberate and morally unacceptable killing of a human person.

I accept with sincere belief the doctrine of faith as handed down to us from the Apostles by the orthodox Fathers, always in the same sense and with the same interpretation.

I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.

May we never risk the life of our souls by being resentful or by bearing grudges.

Our body is a cenacle, a monstrance: through its crystal the world should see God.

May all Christians be found worthy of either the pure white crown of a holy life or the royal red crown of martyrdom.