Christian Inspirational Quotes - Page 37

• Humanity, its dignity and its balance, will depend at every moment and on every place on the globe,on who man is for woman and who woman is for man.

  Pope John Paul II

  Faith, Inspiration, Men

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• It is not enough to long for a person as a good for oneself, one must also, and above all, long for that person's good.

  Pope John Paul II

  Faith, Inspiration, Long

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• Do you remember the time darlin' when everything made more sense in the world? Oh I remember, I remember... when life made more sense... Take me back, take me back, take me way back... to when life made more sense.

  Van Morrison

  Faith, Inspiration, World

  Van Morrison (2014). “Lit Up Inside: Selected Lyrics”, p.157, Faber & Faber

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• How will the Tower of Babel be undone? How will we understand each other in Heaven? Will we all speak English or Dutch or Latin? No, we will speak music.

  Peter Kreeft

  Faith, Latin, Inspiration

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• Music, great music, distends the spirit, arouses profound emotions and almost naturally invites us to raise our minds and hearts to God in all situations of human existence, the joyful and the sad. Music can become prayer.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Prayer, Inspiration

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• From the point of view of the Christian faith, man comes in the profoundest sense to himself not through what he does but through what he accepts. He must wait for the gift of love, and love can only be received as a gift... One must wait for it, let it be given to one. And one cannot become wholly man in any other way than by being loved, by letting oneself be loved... If he declines to let himself be presented with the gift, then he destroys himself.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Christian, Inspiration

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• Love alone makes us happy, because we live in relation, and we live to love and to be loved.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Inspiration, Relation

  Pope Benedict XVI (2011). “Great Christian Thinkers: From the Early Church Through the Middle Ages”, p.223, Fortress Press

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• We live our lives by philosophies, amid worldly affairs and occupations that totally absorb us and are a great distance from the manger. In all kinds of ways, God has to prod us and reach out to us again and again, so that we can manage to escape from the muddle of our thoughts and activities and discover the way that leads to him. But a path exists for all of us. The Lord provides everyone with tailor-made signals.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Philosophy, Distance

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• To the family is entrusted the task of striving, first and foremost, to unleash the forces of good.

  Pope John Paul II

  Faith, Inspiration, Tasks

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• The love of husband and wife is the force that welds society together.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Faith, Husband, Inspiration

  Saint John Chrysostom, Catharine P. Roth, David Anderson (1986). “On Marriage and Family Life”, p.44, St Vladimir's Seminary Press

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• Seeing the sun, the moon and the stars, I said to myself, 'Who could be the Master of these beautiful things?' I felt a great desire to see him, to know him and to pay him homage.

  Josephine Bakhita

  Beautiful, God, Faith

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• God seeks us where we are, not so that we stay there, but so that we may come to be where He is, so that we may get beyond ourselves.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Inspiration, May

  Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) (2016). “Joseph Ratzinger Collected Works: Theology of the Liturgy”, p.86, Ignatius Press

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• He won me over entirely by giving Himself entirely to me.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Faith, Inspiration, Giving

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• All about us, in earth and air, wherever the eye or ear can reach, there is a power ever breathing itself forth in signs, now in daisy, now in a wind-waft, a cloud, a sunset; a power that holds constant and sweetest relation with the dark and silent world within us. The same God who is in us, and upon whose tree we are the buds, if not yet the flowers, also is all about us- inside, the Spirit; outside, the Word. And the two are ever trying to meet in us.

  George MacDonald

  Faith, Flower, Inspiration

  George MacDonald (1978). “The World of George Macdonald: Selections from His Works of Fiction”, Shaw

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• God loves us; we need only to summon up the humility to allow ourselves to be loved.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Inspiration, Humility

  Pope Benedict XVI, Stephan Otto Horn, Vinzenz Pfnür (2003). “God is Near Us: The Eucharist, the Heart of Life”, p.37, Ignatius Press

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• It means that though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still that she did not know. Her knowledge goes back only to the dawn of Time. But if she could have looked a little further back, into the stillness and darkness before Time began, she would have read there a different incantation. She would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the Table would crack and death itself would work backwards.

  C. S. Lewis

  Faith, Inspiration, Mean

  C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol I: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe”, p.117, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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• Mad with the love of a wife for her husband... sing for the Most High sing for no other. We are all notes in this eternal song. God plays His flute and we all dance along.

  Trevor Hall

  Faith, Song, Husband

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• The big, blazing truth about man is that he has a heaven-sized hole in his heart, and nothing else can fill it. We pass our lives trying to fill the Grand Canyon with marbles. As Augustine said: Thou hast made us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless until they rest in Thee.

  Peter Kreeft

  Faith, Inspiration, Heart

  Peter Kreeft (1988). “Fundamentals of the Faith: Essays in Christian Apologetics”, p.159, Ignatius Press

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• The great method of prayer is to have none. If in going to prayer one can form in oneself a pure capacity for receiving the spirit of God, that will suffice for all method.

  Jane Frances de Chantal

  Faith, Prayer, Inspiration

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• We live in a society in which it seems that every space, every moment must be 'filled' with initiatives, activity, sound; often there is not even time to listen and dialogue... Let us not be afraid to be silent outside and inside ourselves, so that we are able not only to perceive God's voice, but also the voice of the person next to us, the voices of others.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Inspiration, Voice

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• In the life of husband and wife together, fatherhood and motherhood represent such a sublime "novelty" and richness as can only be approached "on one's knees".

  Pope John Paul II

  Faith, Husband, Inspiration

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• Creating the human race in His own image and continually keeping it in being, God inscribed in the humanity of man and woman the vocation... of love and communion. Love is therefore the fundamental and innate vocation of every human being.

  Pope John Paul II

  Faith, Inspiration, Love Is

  Pope John Paul II, J. Michael Miller (1998). “The Post-synodal Apostolic Exhortations of John Paul II”, p.156, Our Sunday Visitor Publishing

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• Man cannot live without love. He remains a being that is incomprehensible for himself, his life is senseless, if love is not revealed to him, if he does not encounter love, if he does not experience it and make it his own, if he does not participate intimately in it.

  Pope John Paul II

  Love, Faith, Inspiration

  Pope John Paul II, J. Michael Miller (1998). “The Post-synodal Apostolic Exhortations of John Paul II”, p.163, Our Sunday Visitor Publishing

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• How can it be that the most wonderous and sacred human space - the womb - has become a place of unutterable violence?

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Inspiration, Space

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• God came into the world to reawaken the thirst for great things in us.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Inspiration, World

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