Catholic Quotes - Page 7

Love of Christ does not distract us from interest in others, but rather invites us to responsibility for them, to the exclusion of no one….

Filthy talk makes us feel comfortable with filthy action. But the one who knows how to control the tongue is prepared to resist the attacks of lust

But above all preserve peace of heart. This is more valuable than any treasure.

Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.

We live in a culture in which condoms can be handed out in schools and Bibles can't. And I think that tells you everything you need to know about our society.

Grace flows through wounds.

Haste is of the Devil.

Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.

Catholic extremism should be resisted as fiercely at home as we oppose the Taliban abroad.

We, as Catholics are not permitted to believe anything of our own will, nor to choose what someone has believed of his. We have God's apostles as authorities, who did not themselves of their own wills choose anything of what they wanted to believe, but faithfully transmitted to the nations, the teachings of Christ.

Power isn't having the world at your fingertips; it is having the world at your fingertips and being able to give it up!

The faith of those who live their faith is a serene faith. What you long for will be given you; what you love will be yours for ever.

Writing is a vocation and, as in any other calling, a writer should develop his talents for the greater glory of God. Novels should be neither homilies nor apologetics: the author's faith, and the grace he has received, will become apparent in his work even if it does not have Catholic characters or a Catholic theme.

Lord, if your people need me, I will not refuse the work. Your will be done.

I have held and hold souls to be immortal.... Speaking as a Catholic, they do not pass from body to body, but go to paradise, purgatory or hell. But I have reasoned deeply, and, speaking as a philosopher, since the soul is not found without body and yet is not body, it may be in one body or in another, and pass from body to body.

All the evils of the world are due to lukewarm Catholics.

The distinctive mark of the Christian, today more than ever, must be love for the poor, the weak, the suffering.

Happy is the soul that knows how to find Jesus in the Eucharist, and the Eucharist in all things!

The more we study the early Church, the more we realize that it was a society of ministers. About the only similarity between the Church at Corinth and a contemporary congregation, either Roman Catholic or Protestant, is that both are marked, to a great degree, by the presence of sinners.

You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being.

The greatest method of praying is to pray the Rosary.

Love endures everything, love is stronger than death, love fears nothing.

The coming of the kingdom of God cannot be observed, and no one will announce, 'Look, here it is,' or, 'There it is.' For behold, the kingdom of God is among you.

Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.

The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins.