Top Catholic Quotes

He does not call those who are worthy, but those whom He will.

No books is more fascinating than the Bible. And no books are less fascinating than most of our commentaries on the Bible. Nothing is more formidable and unconquerable than the Church Militant. But no...

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(a.) Universal or general; as, the catholic faith.

(a.) Not narrow-minded, partial, or bigoted; liberal; as, catholic tastes.

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(n.) A person who accepts the creeds which are received in common by all parts of the orthodox Christian church.

(n.) An adherent of the Roman Catholic church; a Roman Catholic.

Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life.

When people have told me that because I am a Catholic, I cannot be an artist, I have had to reply, ruefully, that because I am a Catholic I cannot afford to be less than an artist.

The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?

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When we consider that so few generations had passed since thechurch left off disemboweling innocent men before the eyes of theirfamilies, burning old women alive in public squares, and torturingschola...

Freedom of choice makes it possible to plan our lives and to make the most of ourselves. Yet if this freedom lacks noble goals or personal discipline, it degenerates into an inability to give oneself...

I have dedicated my life to fight against the heinous rottenness of modern capitalism because it robs the laborer of this world's goods. But blow for blow I shall strike against Communism, because it...

PRAISE FOR 'THE JOURNEY HOME'Many saints are known and praised by all. We pray to them in litanies and celebrate their feast days. But the vast majority of holy men and women live heroic lives quietly...

Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.

God created us for play and amusement just as he created us for work, prayer, and community. In particular he created us for art and culture: to create and look at images; to fashion stories and music...

Love actually is a great act of the will. It's when I say, "I desire your good, not for my sake but for yours". To love is to break out of the black hole of the ego and say, "My life is about you".

I know I am awful. But how much more awful I should be without the Faith.

How like God's love yours has been to me- so wise, so generous, and so unsparing!" exclaimed Pancratius. "Promise me one thing more- that is, that you will stay near to me to the end, and carry my las...

The moment we care for anything deeply, the world - that is, all the other miscellaneous interests - becomes our enemy. Christians showed it when they talked of keeping one's self "unspotted from the...

But there is no such being as an ordinary man or woman if by ordinary you mean what so many people mean: negligible. Each human being is so tremendous that he or she merits a reverence that is really...

Turn over the rudder in God's name, and sail with the wind heaven sends us.

In moments when fever, agony, and pain make it hard to pray, the suggestion of prayer that comes from merely holding the rosary - or better still, from caressing the Crucifix at the end of it - is tre...

The world offers you comfort. But you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness