Christian Inspirational Quotes - Page 33

• Every ordinary thing in your life is a word of God's love: your home, your work, the clothes you wear, the air you breathe, the food you eat.... the flowers under your feet are the courtesy of God's heart flung down on You! All these things say one thing only: "See how I love you."

  Caryll Houselander

  Love, Life, God

  Caryll Houselander, Thomas Hoffman (2000). “A Child in Winter: Advent, Christmas and Epiphany with Caryll Houselander”, p.38, Rowman & Littlefield

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• He pours light into our minds, arouses our desire and gives us strength... As the soul is the life of the body, so the Holy Spirit is the life of our souls.

  Peter Damian

  Faith, Inspiration, Light

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• God wastes nothing - not even sin. The soul that has struggled and come through is enriched by it's experiences, and Grace does not merely blot out the evil past but in the most literal sense "makes it good."

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Faith, Inspiration, Past

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• God speaks silently, God speaks in your heart; if your heart is noisy, chattering, you will not hear.

  Caryll Houselander

  Faith, Inspiration, Heart

  Caryll Houselander, Thomas Hoffman (2000). “A Child in Winter: Advent, Christmas and Epiphany with Caryll Houselander”, p.38, Rowman & Littlefield

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• You gotta fight every day to keep mediocrity at bay.

  Van Morrison

  Faith, Inspiration, Fighting

  Song: Keep Mediocrity at Bay, Album: Magic Time, 2005

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• We need to make our own the ancient pastoral wisdom which... encouraged Pastors to listen more widely to the entire People of God. Significant is Saint Benedict's reminder to the Abbot of a monastery, inviting him to consult even the youngest members of the community: "By the Lord's inspiration, it is often a younger person who knows what is best".

  Pope John Paul II

  Faith, Inspiration, People

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• Discouragement itself is a form of pride.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Faith, Inspiration, Pride

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• Remember who you are and whose you are.

  Thea Bowman

  Faith, Christian, Religious

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• The happiness you have a right to enjoy has a name and a face: it is Jesus of Nazareth, hidden in the Eucharist.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Jesus, Inspiration

  Pope Benedict XVI (2006). “God's Revolution: World Youth Day and Other Cologne Talks”, p.34, Ignatius Press

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• Christianity is God's marriage proposal to the soul.

  Peter Kreeft

  Faith, Inspiration, Soul

  Peter Kreeft (1988). “Fundamentals of the Faith: Essays in Christian Apologetics”, p.50, Ignatius Press

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• Making the sign of the Cross - as we will do during the Blessing - means saying a visible and public "yes" to the One who died and rose for us, to God who in the humility and weakness of his love is the Almighty, stronger than all the power and intelligence of the world.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Inspiration, Humility

  Pope Benedict XVI's Angelus, w2.vatican.va. September 11, 2005.

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• We do not exist for ourselves.

  Thomas Merton

  Life, Happiness, Success

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.21, Shambhala Publications

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• You can call happy those who saw Him... But, come to the altar and you will see Him, you will touch Him, you will give to Him holy kisses, you will wash Him with your tears, you will carry Him within you like Mary Most Holy.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Faith, Inspiration, Kissing

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• And if the years vanish in their course, they are still only successions of days that pass right through us as we pass through them in order to seek constantly what You have to show us... to remain constantly in Your embrace, just as the whole of time remains in the embrace of eternity.

  Adrienne von Speyr

  Faith, Inspiration, Order

  Adrienne von Speyr (1995). “With God and with Men: Prayers”, p.22, Ignatius Press

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• A Christian knows when it is time to speak of God and when it is better to say nothing and to let love alone speak. He knows that God is love and that God's presence is felt at the very time when the only thing we do is to love.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Christian, Inspiration

  "Deus Caritas Est - First Encyclical of Pope Benedict XVI". w2.vatican.va. December 25, 2005.

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• To work is simple enough; but to rest, there is the difficulty.

  Ernest Hello

  Faith, Inspiration, Simple

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• Lent stimulates us to let the Word of God penetrate our life and in this way to know the fundamental truth: who we are, where we come from, where we must go, what path we must take in life.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Inspiration, Catholic

  Pope Benedict XVI's Address delivered during The General Audience on Ash Wednesday In St. Peter’s Square, zenit.org. March 1, 2006.

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• The history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family... The family is placed at the center of the great struggle between good and evil, between life and death, between love and all that is opposed to love.

  Pope John Paul II

  Faith, Struggle, Inspiration

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• We are united to Him, we are one, and it is when His Passion becomes real to us, through experience and love, that we grow aware of His presence in us.

  Caryll Houselander

  Faith, Real, Inspiration

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• Faith in the resurrection of Jesus says that there is a future for every human being; the cry for unending life which is a part of the person is indeed answered... God exists: that is the real message of Easter. Anyone who even begins to grasp what this means also knows what it means to be redeemed.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Jesus, Easter

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• Do not wander far and wide but return into yourself. Deep within man there dwells the truth.

  Saint Augustine

  Faith, Inspiration, Men

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• In the context of the "great mystery" of Christ and of the Church, all are called to respond - as a bride - with the gift of their lives to the inexpressible gift of the love of Christ, who alone, as the Redeemer of the world, is the Church's Bridegroom.

  Pope John Paul II

  Faith, Inspiration, Church

  John Paul II, Brooke Williams Deely (2014). “Pope John Paul II Speaks on Women”, p.171, CUA Press

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• In the world in which we live, it is almost a necessity to be able to regain one's strength of body and spirit, especially for those who live in the city, where the conditions of life, often feverish, leave little room for silence, reflection and relaxed contact with nature.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Inspiration, Reflection

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• The call for a sincere gift of self is the fullest way to realize our personal freedom.

  Pope John Paul II

  Faith, Inspiration, Self

  Pope John Paul II (1996). “The Encyclicals of John Paul II”, Our Sunday Visitor (IN)

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• The world needs more than just itself. Amid the dreariness, people do not need a distraction that will in the end become dreary itself; they are asking for mystery, even if they do not realize this themselves. They need the sign of the wholly Other, the living Word of God, entering into this our age in unadulterated trustworthiness and dynamism.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Inspiration, People

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