Catholicism Quotes
334 Catholicism quotes by 168 unique authors
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Our responsibility as Christians makes us tremble. The northern hemisphere, the developed area of the world, the 20% who possess 80% of the world's resources,…
— Hélder Câmara
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For me, men are not divided into believers and atheists, but between oppressors and oppressed, between those who want to keep this unjust society and…
— Frei Betto
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The merits of deeper debt cancellation, when accompanied by conditions of accountability and transparency on the part of recipient countries, have been shown to generate…
— John Ricard
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We are the ones who work every day with people who are suffering because they don't have health care. We cannot turn our backs on…
— Simone Campbell
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Even prostitutes, alcoholics, embezzlers - I won't rehearse the whole catalogue - need health insurance.
— William Levada
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The plight of uninsured children, elderly persons, and so many others whose lack of health insurance is genuinely a national scandal.
— William Levada
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Peace is built on the foundation of justice.
— Pope Leo XIII
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It is neither just nor human so to grind men down with excessive labour as to stupefy their minds and wear out their bodies.
— Pope Leo XIII
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Quite agreeable, of course, was this state of things to those who thought it in their abundant riches the result of inevitable economic laws and…
— Pope Pius XI
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The who have a voice must speak for those who are voiceless.
— Oscar Romero
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Catholics can in no way convince themselves that so enormous and unjust an in equality in the distribution of this world's goods truly conforms to…
— Pope Pius XI
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Is he prepared to support, at his own expense, projects and undertakings designed to help the needy? Is he prepared to pay higher taxes so…
— Pope Paul VI
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There is a common belief that under modern conditions peace cannot be assured except on the basis of an equal balance of armaments...[but] true and…
— Pope John XXIII
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Peace is not simply the absence of warfare.
— Pope Paul VI
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Relations between States, as between individuals, must be regulated not by armed force, but in accordance with...truth, justice and vigorous and sincere co-operation.
— Pope John XXIII
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I am a Catholic not like someone else would be a Baptist or a Methodist, but like someone else would be an atheist.
— Flannery O'Connor
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Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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Frequently, only silence can express my prayer.
— Therese of Lisieux
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If you're a Catholic you believe what the Church teaches and the climate makes no difference.
— Flannery O'Connor
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Christ did not found an abstract religion, a mere school of religious thought. He setup a community of apostles, of teachers, with the task of…
— Pope Paul VI
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Christianity even when watered down is hot enough to boil all modern society to rags.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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No harm can come to me since, in whatever happens, I see only the tender hand of Jesus.
— Therese of Lisieux
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Judge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest to it.
— Fulton J. Sheen
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Anyone who has discovered Christ must lead others to him. A great joy cannot be kept to oneself. It has to be passed on.
— Pope Benedict XVI
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The Mother of Christ, who stands at the very center of this mystery...is given as mother to every single individual and all mankind.
— Pope John Paul II
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