Catholicism Quotes

Because I am Beat, I believe in Beatitude and that God so loved the world He gave His only begotten ...

—Then, said Cranly, you do not intend to become a protestant?—I said that I had lost the faith, Step...

The language in which we are speaking is his before it is mine. How different are the words HOME, CH...

She had no need in her heart for either book or magazine. She had her own way of escape, her own pas...

Catholics have more extreme sex lives because they're taught that pleasure is bad for you. Who think...

For a Catholic understanding of the faith there is no reason why the basic concern of Evangelical Ch...

Meditating on the nature and dignity of prayer can cause saying at least one thing to God: Lord, tea...

When man is with God in awe and love, then he is praying.

Of course, I’ve told Jesus to suck it, too, which earned me a certain measure of notoriety, because ...

People always ask me if I hate the nuns. Do I make my movies extra dirty to piss them off? I always ...

The Catholic Church sees voluntary vampirism as a kind of suicide. I tend to agree. Though the Pope ...

If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric...

At every turn, while he was investigating the background for his study of Thomas Nashe, he would enc...

I never came into the church as a person who was being taught. I came in on my knees. That is the on...

It is not brains or intelligence that is needed to cope with the problems with Plato and Aristotle a...

Man of an hard heart! Hear me, Proud, Stern, and Cruel! You could have saved me; you could have rest...

In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth, a life full of the most atrocious tortures on eart...

We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution. Each of us is the result of a thought o...

It is theologically and anthropologically important for woman to be at the center of Christianity. T...

How many winds of doctrine we have known in recent decades, how many ideological currents, how many ...

The love, loyalty, and dedication of Mary and Joseph are an example for all Christian couples, who a...

The aim of all Christian education, moreover, is to train the believer in an adult faith that can ma...

This is one of the greatest challenges of our time: to convert ourselves to a type of development th...

...only the exclusive and indissoluble union between a man and a woman has a plenary role to play in...

It is one thing to be understanding of human weakness and the complexities of life, and another to a...

A child deserves to be born of that love, and not by any other means, for “he or she is not somethin...

They believe, along the lines of social networks, that love can be connected or disconnected at the ...

Narcissism makes people incapable of looking beyond themselves, beyond their own desires and needs.

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

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

Two or three angelsCame near to the earth.They saw a fat church.Little black streams of peopleCame a...

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

Let nothing disturb you,Let nothing frighten you,All things are passing away:God never changes.Patie...

...it takes great humility to find oneself unjustly condemned and be silent, and to do this is to im...

The study of truth requires a considerable effort - which is why few are willing to undertake it out...

I bear within me the seed, the rudiments, the possibility of life's capacities and endeavors. Where ...

It is this kind of consciousness, exacerbated to an extreme, which has made inevitable the so called...

The story of the Fall tells us in mythical language that "original sin" is not simply a stigma arbit...

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...

Perhaps there is nothing greater on earth than the sacrifice of youth and beauty, often of high birt...

We are all born like Catholics . . . in limbo, without religion.

Therein lies the new hope—Justice, after eighteen hundred years of impotent Charity. Ah! in a thousa...

Much water has flown under Tiber's bridges, carrying away splendour and mystery from Rome, since the...

We can only sense ourselves and our world valued and cherished by God when we feel valued and cheris...

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

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

The morning was bright and propitious. Before their departure, mass had been said in the chapel, and...

But we have no [Marian] apparitions cautioning the Church against, say, accepting the delusion of an...

Santería was traditionally an unacknowledged and underappreciated aspect of what it meant to be Cuba...

The worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself out from His mercy. That is what it would m...

If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.

Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.

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

The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable rights of man as a gift fr...

Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.

The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society.

Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive. They are too often prai...

Far better it is for you to say: "I am a sinner," than to say: "I have no need of religion." The emp...

Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang ...

Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and m...

It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in ...

Never forget that there are only two philosophies to rule your life: the one of the cross, which sta...

The egocentric is always frustrated, simply because the condition of self-perfection is self-surrend...

Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perf...

Many married women who have deliberately spurned the "hour" of childbearing are unhappy and frustrat...

Most talk of a catholic spirit but it is only till they have been brought into the pale of their own...

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

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.

The Best ideal is the true and other truth is none. All glory be ascribed to the holy Three in One.

But you do believe, don’t you," Rose implored him, "you think it’s true?" "Of course it’s true," the...

I know one thing you don't. I know the difference between Right and Wrong. They didn't teach you tha...

She was like a landscape you see from the train, and you want to stop just there.

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...

Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine co...

The Pope would have an easier job than the President of the United States in adopting a change of co...

If you cannot see that divinity includes male and female characteristics and at the same time transc...

What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.

The Church does not dispense the sacrament of baptism in order to acquire for herself an increase in...

Mary thus learns that the Most High has ever borne a Son in his bosom, and that this Son has now cho...

To be a child means to owe one's existence to another, and even in our adult life we never quite rea...

In Christ, for the first time, we see that in God himself there exists--within his inseparable unity...

God defines himself as "I am who I am", which also means: My being is such that I shall always be pr...

Her (Mary's) Son first had to be the Child of the Father in order then to become man and be capable ...

It would be unjust toward children to introduce them to Christian teaching and existence only as lit...

Only the Christian religion, which in its essence is communicated by the eternal child of God, keeps...

What the Father gives is the capacity to be a self, freedom, and thus autonomy, but an autonomy whic...

It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can ...