Catholic Quotes

I am an atheist and I consider religions to be a form of collective neurosis. I am not an enemy of t...

The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution whi...

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

Everything in my head was secondhand, too: Catholicism; Ireland's sad history, a litany of suffering...

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

All love tends to become like that which it loves. God loved man; therefore He became man. For nine ...

In moments when fever, agony, and pain make it hard to pray, the suggestion of prayer that comes fro...

It is not the sanctuary that is in danger; it is civilization. It is not infallibility that may go d...

Conscience, Christ, and the gift of faith make evil men uneasy in their sin. They feel that if they ...

The mark of man is initiative, but the mark of woman is cooperation. Man talks about freedom; woman ...

The usual notion of prayer is so absurd. How can those who know nothing about it, who pray little or...

Lust is a mysterious wound in the side of humanity; or rather, at the very source of its life! To co...

O miracle—thus to be able to give [peace] we ourselves do not possess, sweet miracle of our empty ha...

Satan is too hard a master. He would never command as did the Other with divine simplicity: 'Do like...

Teaching is no joke, sonny! ... Comforting truths, they call it! Truth is meant to save you first, a...

We pay a heavy, very heavy price for the superhuman dignity of our calling. The ridiculous is always...

His face frankly displays his suffering, expressing it with a truly royal simplicity. At such moment...

A Christian people doesn't mean a lot of goody-goodies. The Church has plenty of stamina, and isn't ...

The wish to pray is a prayer in itself.

I think that it [the Church] stands for everything most hostile to the mental emancipation and stimu...

Roman Catholicism is a broken and utterly desperate thing, capable only of malignant mischief in our...

The most evil institution in the world is the Roman Catholic Church.

I perceived or thought of the Light of God and in it suspended one small mote (or millions of motes ...

Mr Kingsley begins then by exclaiming- 'O the chicanery, the wholesale fraud, the vile hypocrisy, th...

A person's faith goes at its own pace. The trouble with church is the service. A service is conducte...

By what route the infant Hansen found his way to the Jesuits, the file did not relate. Perhaps the m...

It is well known how the monks wrote silly lives of Catholic Saints over the manuscripts on which th...

I come from a Catholic religion, but I'm not Catholic.

I held the Host with two fingers and thought: How small Jesus made Himself, in order to show us that...

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

Thus [the altar] brings heaven into the community assembled on earth, or rather it takes the communi...

Creation exists to be a place for the covenant that God wants to make with man. The goal of creation...

Thus there is need of deeper reflection. Before entering into an examination of individual texts, we...

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

The State which would provide everything, absorbing everything into itself, would ultimately become ...

The intellectual climate of the 1970s, for which the 1950s had already paved the way, contributed to...

Jesus assumes, as it were, the fall of man, lets himself into man's fallenness, prays to the Father ...

We throw ourselves down, as Jesus did, before the mystery of God's power present to us, knowing that...

Freedom of choice makes it possible to plan our lives and to make the most of ourselves. Yet if this...

Mercy will always be greater than any sin, no one can put a limit on the love of the all-forgiving G...

When we consider that so few generations had passed since thechurch left off disemboweling innocent ...

Could there be any doubt that the Jews would seek to harm the Son of God again, knowing that his bod...

Reflect carefully on this, for it is so important that I can hardly lay too much stress on it. Fix y...

God withholds Himself from no one who perseveres.

Prayer and comfortable living are incompatible.

No one, on his deathbed, ever regretted having been a Catholic.

I'd be willing to bet that the notion of the end of time is more common today in the secular world t...

Only by having a sense of history's trajectory (even if one does not believe in Parousia) can one lo...

The people of God cannot be changed until the outcasts are restored to its body.

One spiritual writer has observed that human beings are born with two diseases: life, from which we ...

The only cure for suffering is to face it head on, grasp it round the neck and use it.

God's love is based on nothing, and the fact that it is based on nothing makes us secure. Were it ba...

If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach it in the public school, t...