Catholic Quotes - Page 8

If God is not a Trinity, God is not love. For love requires three things: a lover, a beloved, and a relationship between them.

A joyless Catholic is the devil's best tool. A joyful Catholic is God's greatest instrument.

The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.

If you learn from Saint Thérèse to depend on God alone and serve him with a wholly pure and detached heart, then you can join with your whole soul in singing the jubilant song of the holy Virgin, “My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior. For he has done great things for me, and holy is his name.” And like little St. Thérèse you will be able to say at the end, “I do not regret that I have given myself to love.”

I was raised Catholic and I have a lot of respect for the good in the Catholic Church. But I don't go to church.

It is easier to live as a Protestant, but better to die as a Catholic.

We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God

Canon law pertains to Catholics. Jewish law pertains only to Jews. But the sharia dictates every basic aspect of human life, asserts its authority over non-Muslims, unlike Jewish law and unlike canon law, which is why they're slaughtering Christians, they're slaughtering secular Muslims across the Muslim world.

What does it take to become a saint? Will it.

Maintain a spirit of peace and you will save a thousand souls.

Two works of mercy set a person free: Forgive and you will be forgiven, and give and you will receive.

These enemies of divine revelation extol human progress to the skies, and with rash and sacrilegious daring would have it introduced into the Catholic religion as if this religion were not the work of God but of man, or some kind of philosophical discovery susceptible of perfection by human efforts.

I don't trust Catholics," I said, "because they take advantage of you." "And Protestants?" he asked with a laugh. "I loathe the way they fumble around with their consciences." "And atheists?" He was still laughing. "They bore me because all they ever talk about is God.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity.

He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.

No one can be, at the same time, a sincere Catholic and a true Socialist.

Any appellative at all savouring of arbitrary rank is unsuitable to a man of liberal and catholic mind.

The nation doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are.

Peace is built on the foundation of justice.

The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision.

Silence does good to the soul.

When you see the storm coming, if you seek safety in that firm refuge which is Mary, there will be no danger of your wavering or going down.

One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.

We must practice modesty, not only in our looks, but also in our whole deportment, and particularly in our dress, our walk, our conversation, and all similar actions.