Catholic Quotes

Catholic Quote of the day

Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life.

There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.

Faith is what gets you started. Hope is what keeps you going. Love is what brings you to the end.

Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.

Love God, serve God; everything is in that.

Be a Catholic: When you kneel before an altar, do it in such a way that others may be able to recognize that you know before whom you kneel.

We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.

Do not forget that true love sets no conditions; it does not calculate or complain, but simply loves.

Whenever anything disagreeable or displeasing happens to you, remember Christ crucified and be silent.

The spirit of humility is sweeter than honey, and those who nourish themselves with this honey produce sweet fruit.

We've had enough of exhortations to be silent! Cry out with a hundred thousand tongues. I see that the world is rotten because of silence.

The way Jesus shows you is not easy. Rather, it is like a path winding up a mountain. Do not lose heart! The steeper the road, the faster it rises towards ever wider horizons.

The gate of heaven is very low; only the humble can enter it.

A Catholic may sin and sin as badly as anyone else, but no genuine Catholic ever denies he is a sinner. A Catholic wants his sins forgiven - not excused or sublimated.

God is not satisfied with appearance. God wants the garment of justice. God wants his Christians dressed in love.

We must sow the seed, not hoard it.

It is impossible for us not to speak about what we have seen and heard.

Whenever you begin any good work you should first of all make a most pressing appeal to Christ our Lord to bring it to perfection.

Remember that nothing is small in the eyes of God. Do all that you do with love.

Do not try to excuse your faults; try to correct them

It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey.

Our religion seems foolish to you, but so does yours to me. The Baptists and Methodists and Presbyterians and the Catholics all have a different God. Why cannot we have one of our own?

Without the burden of afflictions it is impossible to reach the height of Grace. The gift of Grace increases as the struggle increases.

The greatest obstacle in the apostolate of the Church is the timidity or rather the cowardice of the faithful.

The true friends of the people are neither revolutionaries, nor innovators, but traditionalists.

People who love each other fully and truly are the happiest people in the world. They may have little, they may have nothing, but they are happy people. Everything depends on how we love one another.

O Lord, if I could fly to my people and tell them of your goodness at the top of my voice, oh how many souls would be won!

Do not walk through time without leaving worthy evidence of your passage.

He should first show them in deeds rather than words all that is good and holy.

Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.

Give something, however small, to the one in need. For it is not small to one who has nothing. Neither is it small to God, if we have given what we could.

If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.

Say the Holy Rosary. Blessed be that monotony of Hail Mary's which purifies the monotony of your sins!

If a future Pope teaches anything contrary to the Catholic Faith, do not follow him.

Truth is not determined by a majority vote.

Darkness can only be scattered by light, hatred can only be conquered by love.

Only after the Last Judgment will Mary get any rest; from now until then, she is much too busy with her children.

A single Mass offered for oneself during life may be worth more than a thousand celebrated for the same intention after death.

The man of impure speech is a person whose lips are but an opening and a supply pipe which hell uses to vomit its impurities upon the earth.

The celebration of Holy Mass is as valuable as the death of Jesus on the cross.

Though I have usually posed as a Catholic, I have not done my duty for 15 years, and have not the slightest tincture of faith left.

Only God knows the good that can come about by reading one good Catholic book.

Love our Lady. And she will obtain abundant grace to help you conquer in your daily struggle.

Girded with faith and the performance of good works, let us follow in his [Jesus] paths by the guidance of the Gospel.

We must speak to them with our hands by giving, before we try to speak to them with our lips.

Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.

I place trust in God, my creator, in all things; I love Him with all my heart.

Wherever the bishop shall appear, there let the multitude also be; even as, wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church.

One must see God in everyone.

Before everything else, fidelity to the Church: One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic. Jesus did not found several churches, but one single Church.