Christian Inspirational Quotes - Page 39

• I am very far from practicing what I understand.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Faith, Inspiration

  St. Therese of Lisieux (2013). “Story of a Soul The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux: Third Edition Translated from the Original Manuscripts”, p.109, ICS Publications

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• Listen and attend with the ear of your heart.

  Benedict of Nursia

  Faith, Inspiration, Heart

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• What is capable of restoring enthusiasm and confidence, what can encourage the human spirit to rediscover its path, to raise its eyes to the horizon, to dream of a life worthy of its vocation - if not beauty?

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Dream, Inspiration

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• All my own small perception of beauty both in majesty and simplicity is founded.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Faith, Religious, Inspiration

  "The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien".

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• Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Faith, Inspiration, Men

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• Violence sometimes may have cleared away obstructions quickly, but it never has proved itself creative.

  Albert Einstein

  Faith, Inspiration, Creative

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.55, St. Martin's Press

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• Prayer is the oxygen of the soul.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Faith, Prayer, Inspiration

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• A thirst for the infinite is indelibly present in human beings. Man was created to have a relationship with God; we need him.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Inspiration, Men

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• Love is a constant challenge, thrown to us by God.

  Pope John Paul II

  Faith, Inspiration, Love Is

  Pope John Paul II, Bolesław Taborski (1980). “The jeweller's shop: a meditation on the sacrament of matrimony, passing on occasion into a drama”

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• Christ subjected himself to the law of the seed in the earth, to the law of rest and growth. He was "one of the children of the year," growing through rest, secret in his mothers womb, receiving the warmth of the sun through her, living the life of dependence, helplessness, littleness, darkness, and silence which, by a mystery of the Eternal Law, is the life of natural growth.

  Caryll Houselander

  Faith, Mother, Children

  Caryll Houselander, Thomas Hoffman (2000). “A Child in Winter: Advent, Christmas and Epiphany with Caryll Houselander”, p.96, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The deepest poverty is the inability of joy, the tediousness of a life considered absurd and contradictory. This poverty is widespread today, in very different forms in the materially rich as well as the poor countries. The inability of joy presupposes and produces the inability to love, produces jealousy, avarice - all defects that devastate the life of individuals and of the world. This is why we are in need of a new evangelization - if the art of living remains an unknown, nothing else works... this art can only be communicated by [one] who has life - he who is the Gospel personified.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Country, Art

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• What good does it do me if Christ was born in Bethlehem once if he is not born again in my heart through faith?

  Origen

  Faith, Inspiration, Heart

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• There is no good trying to be more spiritual than God. God never meant man to purely spiritual creature. That is why He uses material things like bread and wine to put the new life into us. We may think this rather crude and unspiritual. God does not: He invented eating. He likes matter. He invented it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Faith, Spiritual, Inspiration

  C.S. Lewis (1960). “Mere Christianity”

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• In silence, we are better able to listen to and understand ourselves; ideas come to birth and acquire depth... Deeper reflection helps us to discover the links between events that at first sight seem unconnected... For this to happen, it is necessary to develop an appropriate environment, a kind of 'eco-system' that maintains a just equilibrium between silence, words, images and sounds.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Inspiration, Reflection

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• The Internet causes billions of images to appear on millions of computer monitors around the planet. From this galaxy of sight and sound will the face of Christ emerge and the voice of Christ be heard? For it is only when his face is seen and his voice heard that the world will know the glad tidings of our redemption. This is the purpose of evangelization. And this is what will make the Internet a genuinely human space, for if there is no room for Christ, there is no room for man.

  Pope John Paul II

  Faith, Inspiration, Men

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• There is need for a crusade of manliness and purity to counteract and nullify the savage work of those who think man is a beast. And that crusade is your work.

  Josemaria Escriva

  Faith, Inspiration, Thinking

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• Christ assigns as a duty to every man the dignity of every woman: and simultaneously... He also assigns to every woman the dignity of every man.

  Pope John Paul II

  Faith, Inspiration, Men

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• It just takes the faith of a little seed to make a way through what might to be impossibility, and the ability will match the occasion. The outcome will defy explanation. The liberation will not be televised when it arrives like lightning in the skies.

  Josh Garrels

  Faith, Inspiration, Sky

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• Eternity is not an unending succession of days in the calendar, but something more like the supreme moment of satisfaction, in which totality embraces us and we embrace totality.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Inspiration, Calendars

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• Make yourself a "capacity" and I will make myself a "torrent."

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Faith, Inspiration, Capacity

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• Men and women cannot rest content with a superficial and unquestioning exchange of skeptical opinions and experiences of life - all of us are in search of truth and we share this profound yearning today more than ever.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Inspiration, Men

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• On the last day, when the general examination takes place, there will be no question at all on the text of Aristotle, the aphorisms of Hippocrates, or the paragraphs of Justinian. Charity will be the whole syllabus.

  Robert Bellarmine

  Faith, Inspiration, Charity

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• The sacraments infuse holiness into the terrain of man's humanity: they penetrate the soul and body, the femininity and masculinity of the personal subject, with the power of holiness.

  Pope John Paul II

  Faith, Inspiration, Men

  Pope John Paul II (2006). “Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body”

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• In a word, the consumer of mass culture is lonely, not only lonely, but spiritually impoverished.

  Walker Percy

  Faith, Lonely, Inspiration

  Walker Percy (2011). “Signposts in a Strange Land”, p.161, Open Road Media

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• No one comes unless they're drawn by the voice of desire that leads em along, to the redemption of what went wrong by the blood that covers the Innocent One.

  Josh Garrels

  Faith, Inspiration, Blood

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