Catholic Author Quotes
Catholic Author Quote of the day
The sense of the joy in anything is the sense of Christ.
An acquaintance merely enjoys your company, a fair-weather companion flatters when all is well, a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.
It is unfortunate that in most cases when the sins of the father fall on the son it is because unlike God, people refuse to forgive and forget and heap past wrongs upon innocent generations.
Powerful to alleviate, to delay, to camouflage, though money is, in the end it lets us down.
It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.
Evil influence is like a nicotine patch, you cannot help but absorb what sticks to you.
... how terrible is the pain of the mind and heart when the freedom of mankind is suppressed!
In fine, a life of good or evil, the hope of Heaven or the despair of Hell, Faustus stands as a reminder that the choice between these two absolutes also falls to us.
Since art is considered a noble field, art should be used to promote all that is good and noble, and in a noble fashion.
There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all.
If a man cannot serve two masters, neither can Christianity, or several thousand of them as the case may be.
Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they’re ratified into law.
I wanted to shut my mind, that my thoughts might closeon my own peace, I wanted to closethe peace of my love in my heartlike dew in a dark rose."From "Philip Speaks
It’s not unpatriotic to denounce an injustice committed on our behalf, perhaps it’s the most patriotic thing we can do.
They said I would never live. I lived. They said I would never think. I think. They said I would never walk. I walked. They said I would never dance, but I never danced anyway.
The devil has not vanished simply because people refuse to believe he exists, no more than God has...
Poor God, how often He is blamed for all the suffering in theworld. It’s like praising Satan for allowing all the good that happens.
... it’s a blessed thing to love and feel loved in return.
Love, like everything else in life, should be a discovery, an adventure, and like most adventures, you don’t know you’re having one until you’re right in the middle of it.
Reflect carefully on this, for it is so important that I can hardly lay too much stress on it. Fix your eyes on the Crucified and nothing else will be of much importance to you.
There are many forms of tyrants, but there are none so terrible as those stifling their own people in the name of freedom.
... what you think is right isn't the same as knowing what is right.
... love for our neighbours does not die the minute we enter heaven, it intensifies.
What could there be in this document written by a young girl in 1917?
... a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.
If you boil it down, just because someone else does the wrong thing we are not exempt from doing what’s right.
