Catholic Quotes

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?

We were looking for a 'good shepherd,' and instead we got a German shepherd.

I have my own religion. I'm sort of one-quarter Baptist, one-quarter Catholic, one-quarter Jewish.

Action and contemplation are very close companions; they live together in one house on equal terms. Martha and Mary are sisters.

Catholicism is more than a religion, it is a political power. Therefore I'm led to believe there will be no peace in Ireland until the Catholic Church is crushed

I have a mustard seed; and I am not afraid to use it.

Help me, O Lord, that my hands may be merciful and filled with good deeds, so that I may do only good to my neighbors.

The Mass is the most perfect form of prayer.

To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

The Lord has turned all our sunsets into sunrise.

Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.

To sing is to pray twice.

God is not only true, but Truth itself.

Catholics are born for combat.

Peace is defined as harmony among those who are divided. When, therefore, we end the civil war within our nature and cultivate peace within ourselves, we become at peace.

Many, many people hereabouts are not becoming Christians for one reason only: there is nobody to make them Christians.

When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.

Pray, Hope, and Don't Worry

No one is truly poor but except the one who lacks the truth.

I accept with sincere belief the doctrine of faith as handed down to us from the Apostles by the orthodox Fathers, always in the same sense and with the same interpretation.

To love God is something greater than to know Him.

May all Christians be found worthy of either the pure white crown of a holy life or the royal red crown of martyrdom.

May we never risk the life of our souls by being resentful or by bearing grudges.

Our body is a cenacle, a monstrance: through its crystal the world should see God.

I'm free of an abusive cult, based on money and power that worships a fictional deity and safely back with the Catholic Church.

Those who are called to the table of the Lord must glow with the brightness.

Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine, There’s always laughter and good red wine. At least I’ve always found it so. Benedicamus Domino!

The sense of the joy in anything is the sense of Christ.

Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

For Catholics before Vatican II, the land of the free was pre-eminently the land of Sister Says-except, of course, for Sister, for whom it was the land of Father Says.

Euthanasia is a grave violation of the law of God, since it is the deliberate and morally unacceptable killing of a human person.

Now a Protestant confronting a Catholic ghost is exactly Shakespeare's way of grappling with what was not simply a general social problem but one lived out in his own life.

I have never been brought up a Catholic - I mean, a Roman Catholic - we're all Catholics, aren't we? We're Protestant Catholics, whether we're from Methodist or Baptist or what.

The preaching of the Church truly continues without change and is everywhere the same. It has the testimony of the Prophets and Apostles and all their disciples.

Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.

True charity consists in doing good to those who do us evil, and in thus winning them over.

Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.

Neutrinos have mass? i didn't even know they're Catholic!" Robert to Vittoria

When one remembers how the Catholic Church has been governed, and by whom, one realizes that it must have been divinely inspired to have survived at all.

Take care to guard against all greed, for though one may be rich, one's life does not consist of possessions.

Let your modesty be a sufficient incitement, yea, an exhortation to everyone to be at peace on their merely looking at you.

The holy Rosary is a powerful weapon. Use it with confidence and you'll be amazed at the results.

Every morning prepare your soul for a tranquil day.

God does not ask for 'religious' art or 'Catholic' art. The art he wants for himself is Art, with all its teeth

Master, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. We have come to believe and are convinced that you are the Holy One of God.

I grew up in a very old-fashioned Roman Catholic, Italian-Irish family in Philly.

When lies have been accepted for some time, the truth always astounds with an air of novelty.

The more you devote yourself to study of the sacred utterances, the richer will be your understanding of them, just as the more the soil is tilled, the richer the harvest.

Christ asks for a home in your soul, where he can be at rest with you, where he can talk easily to you, where you and he, alone together, can laugh and be silent and be delighted with one another.