Top Catholic Quotes Collection
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If you were Catholic, you'd singe the ears of the priest you confessed to.Collection: Catholic
Do not forget that true love sets no conditions; it does not calculate or complain, but simply loves.Collection: Catholic
A joyless Catholic is the devil's best tool. A joyful Catholic is God's greatest instrument.Collection: Catholic
I was steeped in the understanding that if 'something is Roman [Catholic], it must be wrong.Collection: Catholic
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.Collection: Catholic
All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.Collection: Catholic
I am Catholic. But I am opposed to a monopoly when it comes to faith.Collection: Catholic
The preaching of the Church truly continues without change and is everywhere the same. It has the testimony of the Prophets and Apostles and all their disciples.Collection: Catholic
If I have any worth, it is to live my life for God so as to teach these peoples; even though some of them still look down on me.Collection: Catholic
I have a mustard seed; and I am not afraid to use it.Collection: Catholic
You cannot be half a saint; you must be a whole saint or no saint at all.Collection: Catholic
Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.Collection: Catholic
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.Collection: Catholic
When one remembers how the Catholic Church has been governed, and by whom, one realizes that it must have been divinely inspired to have survived at all.Collection: Catholic
I am a Catholic. As far as possible, I go to Mass every day. This is a rosary. As far as possible, I kneel down and tell these beads every day. If you reject me on account of my religion, I shall thank God that He has spared me the indignity of being your representative.Collection: Catholic
I went to work for Catholics United for the Faith, and I basically found myself in the midst of the traditionalist branch of the Catholic revival. There is an intellectual rigor that is very much valued there and that I was in awe of.Collection: Catholic
There was no known cure for a Catholic education.Collection: Catholic
Once the Roman Catholic Church in the West became the church most closely connected with the state, the Roman Catholic Church did not recognize the validity of any religion other than its own.Collection: Catholic
After Bruno's death, during the first half of the seventeenth century, Descartes seemed about to take the leadership of human thought... in promoting an evolution doctrine as regards the mechanical formation of the solar system... but his constant dread of persecution, both from Catholics and Protestants, led him steadily to veil his thoughts and even to suppress them. ...Since Roger Bacon, perhaps, no great thinker had been so completely abased and thwarted by theological oppression.Collection: Catholic
Catholics are born for combat.Collection: Catholic
God is not only true, but Truth itself.Collection: Catholic
Hence from all we have hitherto said, it is clear beloved Catholics that we cannot approve the opinions which some [Protestants, Jews, and other heretics] comprise under the head of Americanism [freedom].Collection: Catholic
By our actions we tell Him of our love.Collection: Catholic
He should first show them in deeds rather than words all that is good and holy.Collection: Catholic
You always leave the Rosary for later, and you end up not saying it at all because you are sleepy. If there is no other time, say it in the street without letting anybody notice it. It will, moreover, help you to have presence of God.Collection: Catholic
The greatest obstacle in the apostolate of the Church is the timidity or rather the cowardice of the faithful.Collection: Catholic
I will go peaceably and firmly to the Catholic Church: for if Faith is so important to our salvation, I will seek it where true Faith first began, seek it among those who received it from God Himself.Collection: Catholic
Fly to the Catholic Church! Adhere to the only faith which continues to exist from the beginning, that faith which was preached by Paul and is upheld by the Chair of Peter.Collection: Catholic
The great argument used now against any theological proposition is not, that it is untrue, or unthinkable, or unedifying, or unscriptural, or unorthodox, but simply, that the modern mind cannot accept it.Collection: Catholic
May we never risk the life of our souls by being resentful or by bearing grudges.Collection: Catholic
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.Collection: Catholic
Let nothing novel be introduced!Collection: Catholic
There is a species of moral, legal, and social modernism which we condemn, no less decidedly than we condemn theological modernism.Collection: Catholic
Be a Catholic: When you kneel before an altar, do it in such a way that others may be able to recognize that you know before whom you kneel.Collection: Catholic
A single Mass offered for oneself during life may be worth more than a thousand celebrated for the same intention after death.Collection: Catholic
When Hitler came for the Jews... I was not a Jew, therefore, I was not concerned. And when Hitler attacked the Catholics, I was not a Catholic, and therefore, I was not concerned. And when Hitler attacked the unions and the industrialists, I was not a member of the unions and I was not concerned. Then, Hitler attacked me and the Protestant church - and there was nobody left to be concerned.Collection: Catholic
First they went after the Communists, and I did not stand up, because I was not a Communist. Then they went after the homosexuals and infirm, and I did not stand up, because I was neither. Then they went after the Jews, and I did not stand up, because I was not a Jew. Then they went after the Catholics, and I did not stand up, because I was Protestant. Finally, they went after me, and there was no one left to stand up for me.Collection: Catholic
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.Collection: Catholic
No one is truly poor but except the one who lacks the truth.Collection: Catholic
If Vulcans had a church, they’d be Catholics.Collection: Catholic
I’ve been a nun. A Catholic nun.Collection: Catholic
Our religion seems foolish to you, but so does yours to me. The Baptists and Methodists and Presbyterians and the Catholics all have a different God. Why cannot we have one of our own?Collection: Catholic
The best way not to find the bed too cold is to go to bed colder than the bed is.Collection: Catholic
The intention of Paul VI with regard to what is commonly called the Mass, was to reform the Catholic liturgy in such a way that it should almost coincide with the Protestant liturgy - but what is curious is that Paul VI did that to get as close as possible to the Protestant Lord's supper... there was with Paul VI an ecumenical intention to remove, or at least to correct, or at least to relax, what was too Catholic, in the traditional sense, and, I repeat, to get the Catholic Mass closer to the Calvinist Mass.Collection: Catholic
Anything done for another is done for oneself.Collection: Catholic
I am just an ordinary Catholic.Collection: Catholic
I am a practicing Catholic, but my lineage is Jewish, so if someone asks me if I'm Jewish, I say yes.Collection: Catholic
In many ways, American evangelicalism is somewhat stronger today than it was in, say 1955 - certainly more mainstream and influential in the culture as a whole. But, the increased strength of evangelicalism hasn't increased fast enough to compensate for the total collapse of mainline Protestantism and the pretty steady weakening of my own Roman Catholic Church.Collection: Catholic
I read a lot of G.K. Chesterton. It was a fairly conventional intellectual path to the Catholic church, I would say.Collection: Catholic
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.Collection: Catholic