488 Quotes About Catholicism

Meditating on the nature and dignity of prayer can cause saying at least one thing to God: Lord, teach us to pray!

It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in bringing out the worst in one another. Lovers who have nothing else to do but love each other soon find there is nothing else. Without a central loyalty life is unfinished.

The rule recognised by spiritual authors is this: meditation for beginners, affective prayer for proficients, active or passive contemplation for advanced souls.

Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.

Our hearts are restless until they find peace in you.

Much of the power of the words is held in the act of saying or hearing them. Whatever meaning they carry is secondary. That is not to say that these things are done by rote in Mass—rather, it’s more of an incantation.

Considering he was neither priest nor scholar, the young man gave sensible, thoughtful replies -- the more so, perhaps, for being untrained, for he had not learned what he should believe or should not believe. Present a statement to him in flagrant contradiction to all Christian doctrine and he could be persuaded to agree on its good sense, unless he remembered it was the sort of thing of which pyres are made for the incautious.

Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and morality? They are trying to solace their own unhappy lives by pulling the happy down to their own abysmal depths.

Many married women who have deliberately spurned the "hour" of childbearing are unhappy and frustrated. They never discovered the joys of marriage because they refused to surrender to the obligation of their state. In saving themselves, they lost themselves!