Christian Inspirational Quotes - Page 32

• God passionately desires and ardently yearns for our salvation... Nothing is greater than this: that the blood of God was poured out for us.

  Pope John Paul II

  Faith, Inspiration, Blood

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• The Church therefore has one inescapable task: To lift up Christ. When she seeks to lift herself up she becomes weak, but when she acknowledges her own weakness and proclaims her Lord, she is strong.

  Avery Dulles

  Faith, Strong, Inspiration

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• Faced with the sacredness of life and of the human person, and before the marvels of the universe, wonder is the only appropriate attitude.

  Pope John Paul II

  Faith, Attitude, Inspiration

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• God must be allowed the right to speak unpredictably.... We must find him in our enemy, or we may lose him even in our friend. We must find him in the pagan or we will lose him in our own selves, substituting for his living presence an empty abstraction.

  Thomas Merton

  Faith, Inspiration, Self

  Thomas Merton, Ernesto Cardenal (2017). “From the Monastery to the World: The Letters of Thomas Merton and Ernesto Cardenal”, p.312, Counterpoint Press

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• I know now one thing only matters in these days... true love... love and love alone.

  James Taylor

  Faith, Inspiration, And Love

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• We must open our eyes to admire God who hides and at the same time reveals himself in things and introduces us into the realms of mystery... we must be pure and simple like children, capable of admiring, being astonished, of marveling, and being enchanted by the divine gestures of love and closeness we witness.

  Pope John Paul II

  Faith, Children, Inspiration

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• Let us listen to what all the faithful say, because in every one of them the Spirit of God breathes.

  Paulinus of Nola

  God, Faith, Religious

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• In this oasis of quiet, before the wonderful spectacle of nature, one easily experiences how profitable silence is, a good that today is ever more rare... In reality, only in silence does man succeed in hearing in the depth of his conscience the voice of God, which really makes him free. And vacations can help to rediscover and cultivate this indispensable interior dimension of human life.

  Pope John Paul II

  Faith, Inspiration, Vacation

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• Only the silent hear and those who do not remain silent do not hear.

  Josef Pieper

  Faith, Inspiration, Silent

  Josef Pieper (2015). “Leisure: The Basis of Culture”, p.27, Ignatius Press

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• Love alone allows man to forget himself... it alone can still redeem even the darkest hours of the past since it alone finds the courage to believe in the mercy of the holy God.

  Karl Rahner

  Faith, Believe, Inspiration

  Karl Rahner (1961). “Theological investigations”, Not Avail

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• It is seldom we have the heart to throw ourselves, if I may so speak, on the Divine Arm; we dare not trust ourselves on the waters, though Christ bids us. We have not St. Peter's love to ask leave to come to him upon the sea. When we once are filled with that heavenly charity, we can do all things, because we attempt all things - for to attempt is to do.

  John Henry Newman

  Faith, Inspiration, Heart

  John Henry Newman (1895). “Selection, Adapted to the Seasons of the Ecclesiastical Year: From the Parochial & Plain Sermons”

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• I will go anywhere and do anything in order to communicate the love of Jesus to those who do not know Him or have forgotten Him.

  Frances Xavier Cabrini

  Faith, Religious, Jesus

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• Seek in reading and you will find in meditation; knock in prayer and it will be opened to you in contemplation.

  John of the Cross

  Faith, Inspiration, Reading

  "The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross".

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• We've been invited to come and believe the Unbelievable, receive the Inconceivable, and see beyond our wildest imaginations... Lord, we come with great expectations.

  Steven Curtis Chapman

  Faith, Believe, Inspiration

  Song: Great Expectations

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• O Jesus, come back into our society, our family life, our souls and reign there as our peaceful Sovereign. Enlighten with the splendor of faith and the charity of Your tender heart the souls of those who work for the good of the people, for Your poor. Impart to them Your own spirit, a spirit of discipline, order and gentleness, preserving the flame of enthusiasm ever alight in their hearts... May that day come very soon, when we shall see You restored to the center of civic life, borne on the shoulders of Your joyful people.

  Pope John XXIII

  Faith, Jesus, Inspiration

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• If you see things as in eternity, you are less a prey to the pain of their passing, and so you can learn the more easily not to clutch at them as they pass... you learn to be reverent and not proudly possessive.

  Gerald Vann

  Faith, Pain, Inspiration

  Gerald Vann (1997). “The Seven Sweet Blessings of Christ: And How to Make Them Yours”, Sophia Inst Press

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• What good is it if the Eucharistic table is overloaded with golden chalices when your brother is dying of hunger. Start by satisfying his hunger and then with what is left you may adorn the altar as well.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Faith, Brother, Inspiration

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• It is part of God's plan for us that Christ shall come to us in everyone; it is in their particular role that we must learn to know him. He may come as a little child, making enormous demands, giving enormous consolation. He may come as a stranger, so that we must give the hospitality to a stranger that we should like to give to Christ.

  Caryll Houselander

  Faith, Children, Inspiration

  "A Child in Winter: Advent, Christmas and Epiphany with Caryll Houselander".

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• God is constantly knocking at the gate of my heart to invite me to go beyond the state I have reached, because my whole life should be a journey on the way to Love.

  Charles Journet

  Faith, Inspiration, Heart

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• If you practice the holy exercise of Spiritual Communion a good many times each day, within a month you will see yourself completely changed.

  Leonard of Port Maurice

  Faith, Spiritual, Inspiration

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• The eternal God asks a favor of his bride: "Hold me close to your heart, close as locket or bracelet fits." No matter whether we walk or stand still, eat or drink, we should at all times wear the golden locket "Jesus" upon our heart.

  Henry Suso

  Faith, Jesus, Inspiration

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• Your soul must hold fast to Him, you must follow after Him in your thoughts, you must tread His ways by faith, not in outward show.

  Ambrose

  Faith, Inspiration, Catholic

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• It is a lesson we all need - to let alone the things that do not concern us. He has other ways for others to follow Him; all do not go by the same path. It is for each of us to learn the path by which He requires us to follow Him, and to follow Him in that path.

  Katharine Drexel

  God, Faith, Christian

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• In the pierced heart of the Crucified, God's own heart is opened up - here we see who God is and what he is like. Heaven is no longer locked up. God has stepped out of his hiddenness.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Inspiration, Heart

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

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• If we let Christ into our lives, we lose nothing, nothing, absolutely nothing of what makes life free, beautiful, and great. No! Only in this friendship are the doors of life opened wide. Only in this friendship is the great potential of human existence truly revealed.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Beautiful, Faith, Inspiration

  Pope Benedict XVI (2006). “God's Revolution: World Youth Day and Other Cologne Talks”, p.35, Ignatius Press

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