Catholic Quotes

All travellers agree that protestant are both richer and more populous than catholic countries;and the reason is, because the habits of the former are more conducive to production.

We are unprofitable servants, we have done what we were obliged to do.

When the problems in Northern Ireland started, it was not a question of Protestantism or Catholicism, because the Catholic church was the only church at that time-it was a nationalist conflict.

Humility is not an exaggeratedly low opinion of yourself. Humility is self-forgetfulness.

Marriage is the most basic expression of the vocation to love that all men and women have as persons made in God's image.

That text-books be permitted in Catholic schools such as will not offend the religious views of the minority, and which from an educational standpoint shall be satisfactory to the advisory board.

I distrust a charity that costs nothing and does not hurt.

The one thing that the Catholic Church desires, and that I seek as Bishop of Rome, “the Church which presides in charity”, is communion with the Orthodox Churches.

The Puritan has passed; the Catholic remains.

I would not believe in the Gospel, if the authority of the Catholic Church did not bid me to do so.

We should not accept in silence the benefactions of God, but return thanks for them.

Down through the centuries, the Church has carefully preserved, protected, and defended its Marian teachings, because to give them up would be to give up the gospel.

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

Through Mary, we come to her Son more easily.

Action is the stream, and contemplation is the spring.

Our teaching may contain nothing impious, nothing diluted.

A large psychic void is left by a loss of faith. So many Catholics have tried so many things to replace it.

The Catholic priest, from the moment he becomes a priest, is a sworn officer of the pope.

Always remain close to the Catholic Church, because it alone can give you true peace, since it alone possesses Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, the true Prince of Peace.

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.

You will never enjoy the sweetness of a quiet prayer unless you shut your mind to all worldly desires and temporal affairs.

Wisdom is vindicated by all her children.

Most readers will be shocked by the clear record of history linking Adolf Hitler and the Roman Catholic Church in a conspiracy to exterminate the Jews

The real ecumenical crisis today is not between Catholics and Protestants but between traditional and experimental forms of church life.

Beyond our grasp, He chose to come within our grasp. Existing before time began, He began to exist at a moment in time.

People do think I'm Jewish. But we're Irish Catholic. My father had a brogue.

I was an altar boy in the Roman Catholic Church and no priest ever laid a hand on me. That's me, always the bridesmaid.

He who reads much and understands much, receives his fill. He who is full, refreshes others.

Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!

I'm not a beatnik. I'm a Catholic.

Show business offers more solid promises than Catholicism.

It is now for the Catholic Church to bend herself to her work with calmness and generosity. It is for you to observe her with renewed and friendly attention.

War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future.

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

True humility scarcely ever utters words of humility.

In the end, forever, you and I will be in Heaven or Hell. Period.

He who does not believe according to the tradition of the Catholic Church is an unbeliever.

Powerful to alleviate, to delay, to camouflage, though money is, in the end it lets us down.

Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks of chastity, but the whole body reveals impurity.

You know you're in a bad movie when the Catholic clergy is being played by Jews.

Holiness is not first a matter of doing anything. It is first and foremost a matter of letting it be done. Holiness is to conceive the love of God within and to bring it forth to the world.

I belong to the middle class that grew up very influenced by the Catholic church. The people of the novel are from a more pagan and practical world in which the Christianity is just a veneer.

You need to know your faith. You cannot give what you do not have.

Never measure your generosity by what you give, but rather by what you have left.

It's amazing how much detail Catholics will go into documenting why people shouldn't do the things that they all do anyway.

When it comes to labor and politics, I am inclined to be sympathetic to the left, but when it comes to the Catholic Church, then I am far to the right.

In the realm of evil thoughts none induces to sin as much as do thoughts that concern the pleasure of the flesh.

Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.

For nothing, how little soever, that is suffered for God's sake, can pass without merit in the sight of God.

Marriage is a living sign that truly communicates the love of Christ and the Church.