Catholic Quotations

Christians

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Bishop Terence Prendengast
Diognetus

Christianity (DIOGNETUS)

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What the soul is in a body, this the Christians are in the world.

Christians (BISHOP TERRENCE PRENDERGAST, S.J.)

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Salt does not exist for itself; it cannot salt itself. Just so Christians do not exist for themselves alone, but in relation to the world.

Chastity

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Father Ron Rolheiser

Chastity (FATHER RON ROLHEISER, O.M.I.)

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Chastity is not so much about sex as it is about reverence and respect. To be chaste is to experience in such a way as to be fully reverential and respectful. When this is done, when one is not chaste, then experience fragments and disintegrates the soul rather than builds it. Hence it is important to know that we can violate chastity as much by prematurity as by substance. Chastity is not just about what we experience, but also about when we experience it. An experience can be wrong simply because it is premature.

Thus, chastity is about waiting for the right moment for something, about living in tension and accepting incompleteness and inconsummation in life.

Atheism

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Archbishop Fulton Sheen

Atheism (ARCHBISHOP FULTON J. SHEEN)

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So much of what people call atheism is not so much the negation of God as the deification of the ego. All atheists believe in God, but the god is themselves.

Sacred Art

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Catechism of the Catholic Church

Sacred Art (Catechism of the Catholic Church, #2502)

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Genuine sacred art draws man to adoration, to prayer and to the love of God, Creator and Saviour, the Holy One and the Sactifier.

M

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Master

Master

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Michaelangelo Bounarroti

Master (MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI)

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It is not enough to merely imitate the masters of old, one must seek to surpass them.

Anti-semitism

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Pope John Paul II

Anti-semitism

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The Catholic Church is deeply saddened by the hatred, acts of persecution and displays of anti-semitism directed against Jews by Christians.

Anger

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St. John Chrysostom

Anger (ST. JOHN CHRYSOSTOM)

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However just your words, you spoil everything when you speak with anger.

Advent

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Thomas Merton

Conviction (BLESSED FREDERIC OZANAM)

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Learn to defend your convictions without hating your adversaries and love those who think differently from yourselves.

Advent (THOMAS MERTON)

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The Advent mystery is the beginning of the end of all in us that is not yet Christ.

Abstinence

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St. Basil

Abstinence (ST. BASIL)

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Abstinence does not consist in refraining from material goods ... but in the complete giving up of one's own will.

Christianity

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Archbishop Oscar A. Romero

Christianity (ARCHBISHOP OSCAR A. ROMERO of San Salvador)

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Christianity cannot be thought of except in terms of relationships with other persons, brothers and sisters in whom we make real the comradely love that we preach.

Church

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Church (BLESSED FREDERIC OZANAM)

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Being a Christian I glory in belonging to no other school than that of truth, which is the Church ... I live by my faith.

Church (ST. CYPRIAN, Bishop of Carthage)

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You cannot have God for your Father if you have not the Church for your mother.

Church (CARDINAL JOHN HENRY NEWMAN)

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Trust the Church of God implicitly even when your natural judgment would take a different course from hers and would induce you to question her prudence or correctness.

Church (ST. THOMAS BECKET)

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Remember then how our fathers worked out their salvation; remember the sufferings through which the Church has grown, and the storms the ship of Peter has weathered because it has Christ on board.

Church (ST. AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO)

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The Church, which is founded upon Christ, received from Him the keys of the kingdom of heaven -- that is, the power of binding and forgiving sins -- in the person of Peter. Therefore this Church, by loving and following Christ, is set free from evil.

Christ

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Christ (ST. AMBROSE)

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In Christ we are all things, He is everything to us. If you have wounds to heal, He is a physician; if fever scorches you, He is a fountain. Would you punish evil doing, He is justice. If you need help, He is strength; if you fear death, He is life; if you hunger, He is food.

Christ (ST. CLARE OF ASSISSI)

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Gaze upon Christ, Consider him, Contemplate him and desire to imitate him. -- ST. CLARE OF ASSISSI, to her nuns

Christ (POPE JOHN PAUL II)

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Christ is a divine judge with a human heart, a judge who wants to give life.

Christ (ST. THOMAS AQUINAS)

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By his divine nature, Christ is simple, by his human nature, he is complex.

Children

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Mother Theresa of Calcutta

Children (MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA)

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How can there be too many children? That is like saying that there are too many flowers.

Book

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Book (THOMAS A KEMPIS, author of Imitation of Christ

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Everywhere have I sought rest and found it not, except sitting apart in a nook with a little book.

Books (ST. ANTHONY MARY CLARET)

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Since we cannot send missionaries everywhere, let us send good books, which can do as much as the missionaries themselves.

Angels (BISHOP FULTON J. SHEEN)

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God sets many angels in our paths but often we know them not; in fact we may go through life never knowing that they were agents or messengers of God to lead us in to virtue or to deter us from vice. But they symbolize that constant and benign intervention of God in human history, which stops us on the path to destruction or leads us to success or happiness.

Angel

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