175 quotes found
“If there is a true measure of a person's soul, if there is a single gauge of real divinity, of how beautifully a fellow human honors this life, has genuine spiritual fire and is full of honest love...”
“You will all be assailed, my dear friends, by the very real temptation to believe that you have been forsaken by God that your priesthood is in vain, and that the weight of mortal grief and sin is...”
“It is not the sanctuary that is in danger; it is civilization. It is not infallibility that may go down; it is personal rights. It is not the Eucharist that may pass away; it is freedom of conscien...”
“If I invite God into my life, I am and always will be good enough.”
“Every time I think about that girl, my mind commits a sin.”
“Truth can prevail only in virtue of truth itself.”
“St. Triduana devoted herself to God in a solitary life at Rescobie in Angus (now Forfarshire). While dwelling there, a prince of the country having conceived an unlawful passion for her is said to ...”
“Or maybe, he thought, returning to the boxes, it was part of being Catholic--you were made to feel guilty about everything”
“In the Code of Canon Law, it states clearly: 'A person who is conscious of grave sin is not to celebrate Mass or receive the body of the Lord without previous sacramental confession.' I havent atte...”
“When I am away from Liturgy for too long, I find I burn for it now, for the steadiness of the calendar, the words" that ring out in repetition, the heavy scented air. When I return each week, I am ...”
“You can't have a vocation of No”
“1862 ...although we can judge that an act is in itself a grave offense, we must entrust judgment of persons to the justice and mercy of God.”
“I come from a Catholic religion, but I'm not Catholic.”
“By becoming clearly contemplative in a matter of weeks, my prayer had been given a particular and novel cast; and this was matched by the distinctness in the reprecussions my daily sessions of exer...”
“When Benedict dies, he will have the pleasure of standing before whatever furious God he believes in, to answer for how it was that he knew for undeniable fact that one -- if not dozens -- of his p...”
“The beauty of Catholicism is every human being's right.”
“God withholds Himself from no one who perseveres.”
“By what route the infant Hansen found his way to the Jesuits, the file did not relate. Perhaps the mother converted. Those were dark years still, and if expediency required it, she may have swallow...”
“One of my confreres sketched an explanation that attracted me: since the process of digestion is under the control of the brain, its cessation gave repose to the brain, allowed it a vacation.”
“. . .fasting gives me singularly happy afternoons.”
