Catholic Quotes

• Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

  Saint Augustine

  Faith, Spiritual, Prayer

  "Is It Okay to Pray for Material Things?" by Rick Hamlin, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 22, 2010.

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  I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

  C. S. Lewis

  Faith, God, Christian

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.229, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Go to the Madonna. Love her! Always say the Rosary. Say it well. Say it as often as you can! Be souls of prayer. Never tire of praying, it is what is essential. Prayer shakes the Heart of God, it obtains necessary graces!

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Prayer, Heart, Grace

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• The holy Rosary is a powerful weapon. Use it with confidence and you'll be amazed at the results.

  Josemaria Escriva

  Powerful, Rosary, Use

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• The difficulty of explaining ‘why I am a Catholic’ is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Reason, Explaining, Difficulty

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• The future starts today, not tomorrow.

  Pope John Paul II

  Dream, Inspiration, Future

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• Patience, prayer and silence-these are what give strength to the soul.

  Mary Faustina Kowalska

  Prayer, Giving, Silence

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• Accept the risen Jesus into your life. Even if you have been far away, take a small step towards Him. He awaits you with open arms.

  Pope Francis

  Life, Faith, God

  "Pope Francis Celebrates Easter Sunday", abcnews.go.com.

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• Master, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. We have come to believe and are convinced that you are the Holy One of God.

  John the Apostle

  Believe, Holy, Masters

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• Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Life, Deeds, Cash

  Venerable Fulton J. Sheen, Aeterna Press (1936). “The Moral Universe”, p.52, Aeterna Press

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• For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.

  Teresa of Avila

  Friendship, Prayer, Term

  Saint Teresa (of Avila), James M. Houston (2005). “Life of Prayer”, p.85, David C Cook

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• Fasting cleanses the soul, raises the mind, subjects one’s flesh to the spirit, renders the heart contrite and humble, scatters the clouds of concupiscence, quenches the fire of lust, and kindles the true light of chastity.

  Saint Augustine

  Heart, Humble, Fire

  "Why Do Christians Fast? Three Reasons Explained by St. Thomas Aquinas" by Gretchen Filz, www.catholiccompany.com. March 23, 2017.

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• He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Faith, Wise, Wisdom

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.414, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Heaven, Desperation, Should

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1873). “The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit: Sermons Preached and Revised”, p.57

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• Wherever applause breaks out in the liturgy because of some human achievement, it is a sure sign that the essence of liturgy has totally disappeared and been replaced by a kind of religious entertainment. Such attraction fades quickly - it cannot compete in the market of leisure pursuits, incorporating as it increasingly does various forms of religious titillation.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Religious, Essence, Achievement

  "The Spirit of the Liturgy". Book by Pope Benedict XVI, 2000.

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• I thank God I was raised Catholic, so sex will always be dirty.

  John Waters

  Love, Life, Witty

  "Weekly Meditations for Healthy Sex (Dec. 14-20)" by Alexandra Katehakis, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 14, 2012.

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• 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.

  Josemaria Escriva

  Rosary, Helping, Sleepy

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• Who except God can give you peace? Has the world ever been able to satisfy the heart?

  Gerard Majella

  Faith, Inspiration, Heart

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• Whenever you begin any good work you should first of all make a most pressing appeal to Christ our Lord to bring it to perfection.

  Benedict of Nursia

  Perfection, Firsts, Christ

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• For a stalk to grow or a flower to open there must be time that cannot be forced; nine months must go by for the birth of a human child; to write a book or compose music often years must be dedicated to patient research ...To find the mystery there must be patience, interior purification, silence, waiting.

  Pope John Paul II

  Faith, Children, Book

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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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• Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.

  Saint Augustine

  Inspirational, Special, Connections

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• Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Passion, Fire, Generosity

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• May we never risk the life of our souls by being resentful or by bearing grudges.

  Gregory of Nyssa

  Soul, Risk, May

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• 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, India, Holy

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