841 Quotes About Catholic

Apart from the cross there is no other ladder by which we may get to heaven.

You cannot sodomize a Sacrament and expect God to say, 'Well done.

Never do anything that your heart tells you is displeasing to Mary; and in addition, never deny her anything that you know she would welcome and desire from you.

We are impatient, anxious to see the whole picture, but God lets us see things slowly, quietly.

Where others teach that man does not find himself until he finds God, John Paul gives an empathetic yes and then adds this: Man does not become his truest and most real self unless and John Paul believed that man is by nature part of a whole, that he does not exist alone. He lives in society with other men, who are, like him, God's children. And it is in giving to man, in giving until it hurts, that man in the deepest way finds God. For God himself is a constant giving. (p 126-127)

The body, in fact, and it alone is capable of making visible that which is invisible; the spiritual and the divine.

Yet, til now, her discipline had less to do with her strict Catholic upbringing than the fact that she hadn't met anybody who had aroused her to the point where she felt it was worth risking purgatory.

Let us sing as we go. May our struggles and our concern for this planet never take away the joy of our hope.

The Lord, in the culmination of the mystery of the Incarnation, chose to reach our intimate depths through a fragment of matter. He comes not from above, but from within, he comes that we might find him in this world of ours. In the Eucharist, fullness is already achieved; it is the living centre of the universe, the overflowing core of love and of inexhaustible life.