Catholic Quotes - Page 6

Catholic education aims not only to communicate facts but also to transmit a coherent, comprehensive vision of life, in the conviction that the truths contained in that vision liberate students in the most profound meaning of human freedom.

The more you devote yourself to study of the sacred utterances, the richer will be your understanding of them, just as the more the soil is tilled, the richer the harvest.

Those who join the Carmelite Order are not lost to their near and dear ones, but have been won for them, because it is our vocation to intercede to God for everyone.

I grew up in a very old-fashioned Roman Catholic, Italian-Irish family in Philly.

As the sun shines both on the cedar and the smallest flower, so the Divine sun illumines each soul.

Faith is a beam radiating from the face of God.

Believing is an act of the intellect assenting to the divine truth by command of the will moved by God through grace.

We're seeing a much larger ministry here for the general community. Not just Catholics, but others are calling us too. They're not looking for lawyers or suing their grandfathers, but counseling and healing.

Peace is not just the absence of war. Like a cathedral, peace must be constructed patiently and with unshakable faith.

God is very generous and does not deny His grace to anyone. Indeed he gives more than what we ask of Him. Faithfulness to the inspirations of the Holy Spirit-that is the shortest route.

Rome should sometimes intervene and say this or that is not in conformity with the Catholic faith. Theologians should understand that. Some theologians go too far, for example, reducing the Catholic faith to a universal philosophy.

And I myself a Catholic will be, So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee. Hail, Bard triumphant! and some care bestow On us, the Poets militant below.

I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

At the end of our life, we shall all be judged by charity.

The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith.

There is a very well-defined procedure that allows the Vatican to raise issues with a particular theologian about something that does not appear in conformity with the Catholic faith. It is not always easy to make this determination.

As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction

Apparently God takes reception of Holy Communion seriously. Apparently some things are more sacred than politics. Apparently it's all or nothing when it comes to being Catholic.

There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.

Be humble in this life, that God may raise you up in the next. Be truly moderate and do not punish or condemn anyone immoderately. Be gentle so that you may never oppose justice. Be honorable so that you may never voluntarily bring disgrace upon anyone. Be chaste so that you may avoid all the foulness of lust like the pangs of death.

Far, far from the clergy be the love of novelty!

Only the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of true love.

I have always condemned Liberal Catholicism and I will condemn it again forty times over if it be necessary.

All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.

Good strong thick stupefying incense-smoke!