Catholic Quotes

I think of a sister as a mirror. She reflects Christ's love for His Church in her life and in that reflection, I see my truest identity. I am Christ's forever and He loves me. There is no greater joy than that.

What the Church is on a large scale, the family is on a small scale: an image of God’s love in human fellowship.

In these images, faith and art combine so as to penetrate our heart and summon us to conversion. When faith’s gaze is pure and authentic, beauty places itself at its service and is able to depict the mysteries of our salvation in such a way as to move us profoundly and transform our hearts, as Saint Teresa of Jesus herself experienced while contemplating an image of the wounded Christ (cf. Autobiography, 9:1).

Cheerfulness strengthens the heart and makes us persevere in a good life. Therefore, the servant of God ought always to be in good spirits.

What is an optimist? I can answer for myself in a very simple fashion: He or she is a person who has the conviction that God knows, can do, and will do what is best for mankind.

Something strange is happening - there is a great silence on earth today, a great silence and stillness. The whole earth keeps silence because the King is asleep. The earth trembled and is still because God has fallen asleep in the flesh and he has raised up all who have slept ever since the world began. God has died in the flesh and hell trembles with fear.

Every argument is a theological argument.

King of kings, yet born of Mary,
As of old on earth He stood,
Lord of lords, in human vesture,
In the body and the blood;
He will give to all the faithful
His own self for heavenly food.

One had to be patient to thrive in Rome, where time is measured not in centuries but in millennia, where patience and the long view have always distinguished political life.

King of kings, yet born of Mary,
As of old on earth He stood,
Lord of lords, in human vesture,
In the body and the blood;
He will give to all the faithful
His own self for heavenly food.

The Catholics in China are struggling to have the right to do things as the rest of the Church, that it really strikes me--hard--when I see an American priest just plain ignoring these things because he feels like it.

The greatest persecution of the church doesn't come from enemies on the outside but is born from the sin within the church.

The greatest persecution of the church doesn't come from enemies on the outside but is born from the sin within the church.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

The novelty of biblical revelation consists in the fact that God becomes known through the dialogue which he desires to have with us.

Catholicism is a deep matter, you cannot take it in a teacup.

The Feast of the Assumption is for days when the rent is due, when the baby is crying, and its raining outside...This Feast reminds us of the bigger picture. One day God will reward all of our hidden earthly sacrifice with a crown in heaven, just as He honored Our Blessed Mother.

There are not over a hundred people in the United States who hate the Catholic Church. There are millions, however, who hate what they wrongly believe to be the Catholic Church... As a matter of fact, if we Catholics believed all of the untruths and lies which were said against the Church, we probably would hate the Church a thousand times more than they do.

A life time of belief has convinced me that real, genuine, authentic faith still doubts. I must doubt. Otherwise it's not faith, but witless conformity.

It's perfectly okay that you have hesitations about statements from the Fathers of the Church, the present day administration of the Church, even with Jesus himself - as long as you find some honest way to resolve these difficulties, a way which keeps in mind not only your discomforts with a particular saying, but also with the powerful source of the saying itself.