Catholic Faith Quotes

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

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Father, Catholic, India

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• 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.

  Godfried Danneels

  Philosophy, Rome, Catholic

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• 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.

  Godfried Danneels

  Determination, Issues, Catholic

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• Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

  Saint Augustine

  Inspirational, Faith, Spiritual

  "Strive to Love, Anticipate with Hope, Believe in Faith". Book by Catherine Basten, 2004.

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• Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Positive, Happiness

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• Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Mother Teresa of Calcutta (2010). “In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories & Prayers (Easyread Large Edition)”, p.6, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I attribute all of my success to my Catholic faith. My faith has given me the ability to be a good father, a good husband and most importantly a good person.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Husband, Father, Catholic

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.

  Mother Teresa

  Smile, God, Mother

  Mother Teresa (2010). “Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others”, p.289, Image

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• Spread love everywhere you go; first of all in your house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor. Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Life, Children

  "Worldwide Laws Of Life: 200 Eternal Spiritual Principles". Book by John Templeton, p. 448, 1998.

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• Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Faith, Hope, Philosophical

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• The only cure for sagging or fainting faith is Communion. Though always Itself, perfect and complete and inviolate, the Blessed Sacrament does not operate completely and once for all in any of us. Like the act of Faith it must be continuous and grow by exercise. Frequency is of the highest effect. Seven times a week is more nourishing than seven times at intervals.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Faith, Blessed, Inspiration

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.338, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The Catholic faith never changes. But the language and mode of manifesting this one faith can change according to peoples, times and places.

  Francis Arinze

  Catholic, Language, Never Change

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• 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.

  Elizabeth Ann Seton

  Catholic, Important, Church

  Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton (2000). “Elizabeth Ann Seton: A Woman of Prayer : Meditations, Reflections, Prayers, and Poems Taken from Her Writings”, University Press of Amer

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• To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Faith, Powerful, Thoughtful

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• We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Believe, Saint, May

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• Never forget that there are only two philosophies to rule your life: the one of the cross, which starts with the fast and ends with the feast. The other of Satan, which starts with the feast and ends with the headache.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Philosophy, Two, Catholic

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• If a future Pope teaches anything contrary to the Catholic Faith, do not follow him.

  Pope Pius IX

  Catholic, Pope, Teach

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• God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

  Saint Augustine

  Love, Faith, God

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• y feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God's truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders.

  Adolf Hitler

  Christian, Religious, Loneliness

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  One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

  Joan of Arc

  Faith, Courage, Believe

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• As Lent is the time for greater love, listen to Jesus' thirst...'Repen t and believe' Jesus tells us. What are we to repent? Our indifference, our hardness of heart. What are we to believe? Jesus thirsts even now, in your heart and in the poor -- He knows your weakness. He wants only your love, wants only the chance to love you.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Believe, Love You

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• For nothing, how little soever, that is suffered for God's sake, can pass without merit in the sight of God.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Sight, Catholic, Littles

  "The Imitation of Christ".

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• If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

  Saint Augustine

  God, Faith, Believe

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• For what is faith unless it is to believe what you do not see?

  Saint Augustine

  Inspirational, Faith, Religious

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• Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Powerful, Ethos, Catholic

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1955). “Theological texts”

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