Vincent Nichols Quotes

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• The only thing that I am ambitious about is to live a good life. Full stop.
• We're losing social skills, the human interaction skills, how to read a person's mood, to read their body language, how to be patient until the…
• The paradox of faith is that when we conform our lives to Christ then we gain our true freedom. And its fruit is profound and…
• I think there's a worry that an excessive use or an almost exclusive use of text and emails means that as a society we're losing…
• The love of husband and wife, which is creative of new human life, is a marvellously personal sharing in the creative love of God who…
• I think there is, in our society, there is a growing fear of death, a fear of the circumstances in which I might die, a…
• For a healthy society, those laws and conventions should always support marriage as an institution characterised by an openness to children and the responsibility of…
• Strong families serve society by bringing forth healthy children and maturing young adults, by being a rich source of a compassion for sick members, of…
• No intelligent government can continue to ignore the urgent priority of giving support and practical encouragement to marriage and family stability as the first response…
• Faith in God is the gift that takes us beyond our limited self, with all its incessant demands. It opens us to a life that…
• My parents would always trace the sign of the cross on our foreheads before they kissed us goodnight.
• A Catholic understanding of priesthood is so strongly rooted in the historic actions of Jesus and in all their antecedents in the place of sacrifice…
• You know, in some ways, the celibacy tradition goes back to the tribe of Levi and, certainly, sacrifice and the notion of sacrifice. In the…
• In the eyes of the Catholic Church, abortion is a tragedy. Our principle objective must be to try and win greater sympathy for that perspective…
• In the Catholic tradition, the idea of giving something up on a Friday - the act of self denial - has always been tied with…
• Pope John Paul II was a great presence on the stage. Pope Benedict is a much more gentle and refined person, and I think he…
• I think it is quite remarkable actually that Pope Benedict has a sense of the variety of ways in which it is possible to be…
• Those who embrace belief in Christ Jesus are bound together in Him, in a real yet incomplete way, in his Body, the Church. Faith is…
• In Christ we see a maturity of love that flowers in self-sacrifice and forgiveness; a maturity of power that never swerves from the ideal of…

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