Catholicism Quotes
Catholicism Quote of the day
We suffer with those who have disappeared, those who have had to flee their homes, and those who have been tortured.
If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.
Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.
Catholicism is more than a religion, it is a political power. Therefore I'm led to believe there will be no peace in Ireland until the Catholic Church is crushed
Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.
It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can make a detour around it.
I have always condemned Liberal Catholicism and I will condemn it again forty times over if it be necessary.
To be a child means to owe one's existence to another, and even in our adult life we never quite reach the point where we no longer have to give thanks for being the person we are.
The heart is like a woman, and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.
When man is with God in awe and love, then he is praying.
It feels a little bit funny coming here and telling you guys that Linux and open source are the future of gaming. It's sort of like going to Rome and teaching Catholicism to the pope.
Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.
God defines himself as "I am who I am", which also means: My being is such that I shall always be present in every moment of becoming.
Meditating on the nature and dignity of prayer can cause saying at least one thing to God: Lord, teach us to pray!
It’s one of my loose theories that Catholicism and art have gone well together because both believe in the physical manifestation of the spiritual world.
Much of what is called Christianity has more to do with disguising the ego behind the screen of religion and culture than any real movement toward a God beyond the small self, and a new self in God.
We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution. Each of us is the result of a thought of God.
This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and agape love.
Only God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God deserves unlimited love.
The difficulty of explaining ‘why I am a Catholic’ is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true.
Sacraments are like hoses. They are the channels of the living water of God's grace. Our faith is like opening the faucet. We can open it a lot, a little, or not at all.
The Best ideal is the true and other truth is none. All glory be ascribed to the holy Three in One.
When the problems in Northern Ireland started, it was not a question of Protestantism or Catholicism, because the Catholic church was the only church at that time-it was a nationalist conflict.
Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.
Catholicism is the tomb of intelligence, of thought, of brain; Protestantism, the tomb of conscience, of feeling, of heart.
The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society.
The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.
What the Father gives is the capacity to be a self, freedom, and thus autonomy, but an autonomy which can be understood only as a surrender of self to the other.
In proportion to its power, Protestantism has been as persecuting as Catholicism.
We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.
Happiness is not only a hope, but also in some strange manner a memory ... we are all kings in exile.
Catholicism is a matter of the body and the senses as much as it is a matter of the mind, precisely because the Word became flesh.
I'm an old Catholic. I don't believe in anything Catholic but I do believe that Catholicism keeps me from committing suicide.
The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable rights of man as a gift from God, the Source of law.
A religion such as Judaism or Catholicism might survive even if it comes to reject a literal account of God creating man and animals. But it cannot survive the rejection of an immaterial soul.
