841 Quotes About Catholic

Someone once told the Catholic writer Flannery O’Connor that it is more open-minded to think that the Blessed Sacrament of the Altar is a great, wonderful, powerful symbol. Her response was, “If it’s only a symbol, to hell with it.

Unwittingly, the feminists acknowledge the superiority of the male sex by wishing to become like men.

One of the good things about a Catholic church is that it isn't respectable," she had told Richard. "You can find anyone in it, from duchesses to whores, from tramps to kings.

But freedom starts with honesty. We aren’t doing ourselves any favors by defining our- selves as good and others as bad. Let’s just agree that we all need help, that we are all in this together.

I will willingly abandon this miserable body to hunger and suffering, provided that my soul may have its ordinary nourishment.

I would write a thousand foolish things that one might be to the point, if only it might make us praise God more.

We are crucified to the world, and the world must be as crucified to us. It esteems us as fools, let us esteem it as mad.

It is a great advantage for us to be able to consult someone who knows us, so that we may learn to know ourselves.

We’re not protecting our daughters if we forbid makeup, eschew fashionable hairstyles, or wear dowdy clothes. The feminine form is beautiful. Sure, we don’t want to hide behind makeup or wear immodest clothes to draw attention to ourselves. But there’s nothing wrong with wanting to accent our femininity.