Christian Inspirational Quotes - Page 35

• Everything is a grace, everything is the direct effect of our Father's love - difficulties, contradictions, humiliations, all the soul's miseries, her burdens, her needs - everything, because through them, she learns humility, realizes her weakness. Everything is a grace because everything is God's gift. Whatever be the character of life or its unexpected events - to the heart that loves, all is well.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Faith, Father, Inspiration

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• The brilliance of contemplated beauty opens the spirit to the mystery of God.

  Angelo Sodano

  Faith, Inspiration, Spirit

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• Each time we look upon the poor, on the farmworkers who harvest the coffee, the sugarcane, or the cotton... remember, there is the face of Christ.

  Oscar Romero

  Faith, Inspiration, Coffee

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• To love is to be transformed into what we love. To love God is therefore to be transformed into God.

  John of the Cross

  Faith, Inspiration, Love Is

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• The highest things, the things that really matter, we cannot achieve on our own; we have to accept them as gifts and enter in to the dynamic of the gift, so to speak.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Inspiration, Matter

  Pope Benedict XVI, Joseph Ratzinger (2007). “Jesus of Nazareth: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration”, p.268, Image

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• The Rosary is the book of the blind, where souls see and there enact the greatest drama of love the world has ever known; it is the book of the simple, which initiates them into mysteries and knowledge more satisfying than the education of other men.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Faith, Drama, Book

  "The World's First Love".

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• The Holy Spirit knows what a particular age's most pressing need is far better than men with their programs.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Faith, Inspiration, Men

  Hans Urs von Balthasar (1987). “Truth is Symphonic: Aspects of Christian Pluralism”, p.97, Ignatius Press

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• For in this world, marked by sin, the gravitational pull of our lives is weighted by the chains of the "I" and the "self." These chains must be broken to free us for a new love that places us in another gravitational field where we can enter new life.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Inspiration, Self

  Pope Benedict XVI (2009). “Jesus of Nazareth”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• If I ever become a Saint - I will surely be one of "darkness." I will continually be absent from heaven - to light the light of those in darkness on earth.

  Mother Teresa

  Faith, Inspiration, Light

  Mother Teresa (2016). “A Call to Mercy: Hearts to Love, Hands to Serve”, p.106, Image

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• In an age that has thrown off all tradition, the only rebellion possible is orthodoxy.

  Peter Kreeft

  Faith, Inspiration, Age

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• Sick, our nature demanded to be healed; fallen, to be raised up; dead, to rise again... Closed in the darkness, it was necessary to bring us the light; captives, we awaited a Savior... Are these things minor or insignificant? Did they not move God to descend to human nature and visit it, since humanity was in so miserable and unhappy a state?

  Gregory of Nyssa

  Faith, Inspiration, Moving

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• If we approach with faith, we too will see Jesus... for the Eucharistic table takes the place of the crib. Here the Body of the Lord is present, wrapped not in swaddling clothes but in the rays of the Holy Spirit.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Faith, Jesus, Inspiration

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• Yes, the civilization of love is possible; it is not a utopia. But it is only possible by a constant and ready reference to the "Father from whom all fatherhood and motherhood on earth is named," from whom every human family comes.

  Pope John Paul II

  Faith, Father, Inspiration

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• My television is the tabernacle.

  Mother Teresa

  Faith, Inspiration, Television

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• Let us rise above the things that pass away. Up above, the air is so pure. Jesus can hide Himself but we will find Him there.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Faith, Jesus, Inspiration

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• The Gospel is not merely a communication of things that can be known - it is one that makes things happen and is life-changing. The dark door of time, of the future, has been thrown open. The one who has hope lives differently; the one who hopes has been granted the gift of a new life.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Life Changing, Communication

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• You ask me whether I am in good spirits. How could I not be so? As long as Faith gives me strength I will always be joyful. Sadness ought to be banished from Catholic souls... the purpose for which we have been created shows us the path; even if strewn with many thorns, it is not a sad path. It is joyful even in the face of sorrow.

  Pier Giorgio Frassati

  Faith, Inspiration, Sadness

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• Sometimes we are looked upon as people who speak only of prohibitions. Nothing could be further from the truth! Authentic Christian discipleship is marked by a sense of wonder. We stand before the God we know and love as a friend, the vastness of his creation, and the beauty of our Christian faith.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Christian, Inspiration

  Pope Benedict XVI (2008). “Pope Benedict in America: The Full Texts of Papal Talks Given During His Apostolic Visit to the United States”, p.130, Ignatius Press

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• Singing is a lover's thing.

  Saint Augustine

  Faith, Inspiration, Singing

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• The proof of love is in the works. Where love exists, it works great things. But when it ceases to act, it ceases to exist.

  Pope Gregory I

  Love, Faith, Christian

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• The field of earth and of our human nature is now no longer barren but full of the seed of divine life. But it takes time for the seed to grow, for the Kingdom to come, and we are commanded to pray and work for that coming, that growth, even if we do not yet see the fruits, or even the blossoms, or even the leaves...

  Peter Kreeft

  Faith, Inspiration, Growth

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• Our first experience of God is so important, we either experience Him as the police guard that wants to punish or as Creative Love that awaits.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Inspiration, Creative

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• Can man, the finite and sinful one, cooperate with God, the Infinite and Holy One? Yes, he can, precisely because God Himself has become man, become body, and here (in the liturgy), again and again, he comes through his body to us who live in the body.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Inspiration, Men

  Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) (2016). “Joseph Ratzinger Collected Works: Theology of the Liturgy”, p.112, Ignatius Press

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• Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Faith, Believe, Inspiration

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• The heart is our hidden center, beyond the grasp of our reason and of others; only the Spirit of God can fathom the human heart and know it fully. The heart is the place of decision, deeper than our psychic drives. It is the place of truth, where we choose life or death. It is the place of encounter.

  Pope John Paul II

  Faith, Inspiration, Heart

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