175 quotes found
“Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life.”
“just show a little humility. If you know your weaknesses you will not be enslaved by them.”
“The beauty of Catholicism is every human being's right.”
“God's love is based on nothing, and the fact that it is based on nothing makes us secure. Were it based on anything we do, and that 'anything' were to collapse, then God's love would crumble as wel...”
“Unwittingly, the feminists acknowledge the superiority of the male sex by wishing to become like men.”
“One thing is certain: When the time has come, nothing which is man made will subsist. One day, all human accomplishments will be reduced to a pile of ashes. But every single child to whom a woman h...”
“The State which would provide everything, absorbing everything into itself, would ultimately become a mere bureaucracy incapable of guaranteeing the very thing which the suffering personevery perso...”
“I held the Host with two fingers and thought: How small Jesus made Himself, in order to show us that He doesn't expect great things of us, but rather little things with great love.”
“We are all constantly being refined by fire and smoothed over by grace.”
“I think one of the things that has always stopped me from truly leaning into my fears is that I'm not always sure whether my dreams line up well with God's plan for my life. I might be willing to t...”
“Only when we cease to rely on our own strength can we discover that God's strength is always there for us.”
“Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.”
“When Abbess Ebba received tidings of the near approach of the pagan hordes, who had already wrecked vengeance upon ecclesiastics, monks, and consecrated virgins, she summoned her nuns to Chapter, a...”
“Turn over the rudder in God's name, and sail with the wind heaven sends us.”
“I'm Catholic. I don't pray, I just ask for forgiveness after.”
“God withholds Himself from no one who perseveres.”
“A person's faith goes at its own pace. The trouble with church is the service. A service is conducted for a mass audience. Just when I start to like the hymn, everyone plops down to pray. Just when...”
“Without radical humility that is expressed in gestures of adoration and in sacred rituals, no friendship with God is possible. Silence manifests this connection in an obvious way. True Christian si...”
“Many fervent Christians who are moved by the Passion and death of Christ on the Cross no longer have the strength to weep or to utter a cry of pain to the priests and bishops who make their appeara...”
“Now: unlike ourselves, the Father of Jesus loves men and women, not for what He finds in them, but for what lies within Himself. It is not because men and women are good that He loves them, nor onl...”
