Catholic Quotes

1306 Catholic quotes by 675 unique authors

It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey. — Ignatius Loyola
People can pass thirty nights in dancing and no one complains about it, but if they watch through a single Christmas night they cough and… — Saint Francis de Sales
All true and living devotion presupposes the love of God and indeed it is neither more nor less than a very real love of God,… — Saint Francis de Sales
Believing is an act of the intellect assenting to the divine truth by command of the will moved by God through grace. — Thomas Aquinas
The declared enemies of God and His Church, heretics and schismatics, must be criticized as much as possible, as long as truth is not denied.… — Saint Francis de Sales
The apostles and their successors are God's vicars in governing the Church which is built on faith and the sacraments of faith. Wherefore, just as… — Thomas Aquinas
If I have any worth, it is to live my life for God so as to teach these peoples; even though some of them still… — Saint Patrick
Every morning prepare your soul for a tranquil day. — Saint Francis de Sales
Souls do not wish to be bullied, but gently brought back; such is the nature of man. — Saint Francis de Sales
It is unlawful to add anything to the words of Holy Scripture regarding the sense. — Thomas Aquinas
There being an imminent danger for the faith, prelates must be questioned, even publicly, by their subjects. — Thomas Aquinas
There is a species of moral, legal, and social modernism which we condemn, no less decidedly than we condemn theological modernism. — Pope Pius XI
Yesterday I had a Shaker visitor, and today a Catholic; and the more I see and hear, the less do I care about church doctrines. — Maria Mitchell
Wherever a Scotsman goes, here goes Burns. His grand whole, catholic soul squares with the good of all; therefore we find him in everything, everywhere. — John Muir
And I'm a Catholic, from an Irish Catholic family, and we know plenty of stuff about guilt. — Bob Gunton
My home base - pop music and the Catholic Church. — Madonna Ciccone
When I was a kid I went to Catholic school, and they used to drag us out to pro-life rallies and stuff full of crazy… — Tim Heidecker
Current Catholic worship often ignores the essential connection between truth and beauty, body and soul, at the center of the Catholic worldview. The Church requires… — Dana Gioia
Shame is something you'll find a lot of - particularly Catholic - girls feel about their bodies, about their sexuality, about their diet, about anything… — Rachel Cusk
The reality is that while heliocentrism was discussed and often accepted within Catholic circles - it was effectively the only place where it could be… — Michael Coren
In early Judaism, the priesthood was maintained within various families and passed down from father to son, thus necessitating marriage. But this is the old… — Michael Coren
We cannot by a little verbal sophistry confound the qualities of different minds, nor force opposite excellences into a union by all the intolerance in… — William Hazlitt
It’s the strangest thing about this church - it is obsessed with sex, absolutely obsessed. Now they will say we, with our permissive society and… — Stephen Fry
It was manifest to me that there was something in the Roman Catholic religion which made the priests very dear to the people; for I… — Bill Vaughan
In the Western Church to which I belong, priests cannot be married as in the Byzantine, Ukrainian, Russian or Greek Catholic Churches. In those churches,… — Pope Francis

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