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Catholic Deacon Inspirational Quotes (186)

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All things of creation are children of the Father and thus brothers of man. ... God wants us to help animals, if they need help. Every creature in distress has the same right to be protected.
Francis of Assisi
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It is impossible to approve in Catholic publications of a style inspired by unsound novelty which seems to deride the piety of the faithful and dwells on the introduction of a new order of Christian life, on new directions of the Church, on new aspirations of the modern soul, on a new vocation of the clergy, on a new Christian civilisation.
Pope Pius X
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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 moment is right to make or press a point. Too much exclusive use of electronic information dehumanises what is a very, very important part of community life and living together.
Vincent Nichols
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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 service a maturity of goodness that overcomes every temptation, and, of course, we see the ultimate victory of life over death itself.
Vincent Nichols
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I cannot persuade myself that without love to others, and without, as far as rests with me, peaceableness toward all, I can be called a worthy servant of Jesus Christ.
Saint Basil
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The burden of life is from ourselves, its lightness from the grace of Christ and the love of God.
William Bernard Ullathorne
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Do all you can to preach the gospel and if necessary use words!
Francis of Assisi
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Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights of paradise, so also we would not require the medical art for relief if we were immune to disease, as was the case, by God's gift, at the time of Creation before the Fall.
Saint Basil
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I accept with sincere belief the doctrine of faith as handed down to us from the Apostles by the orthodox Fathers, always in the same sense and with the same interpretation.
Pope Pius X
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Sanctify yourself and you will sanctify society.
Francis of Assisi
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Couples with children who do win a divorce, cause such social havoc that they should have to pay a special divorce tax.
George Pell
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The only thing ever achieved in life without effort is failure.
Francis of Assisi
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...In this world I cannot see the Most High Son of God with my own eyes, except for His Most Holy Body and Blood.
Francis of Assisi
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Don't change the world, change worlds.
Francis of Assisi
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The organic constitution of the Church is not immutable but Christian society, just as human society, is subject to perpetual evolution.
Pope Pius X
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The bread which you use is the bread of the hungry the garment hanging in your wardrobe is the garment of him who is naked the shoes you do not wear are the shoes of the one who is barefoot the acts of charity that you do not perform are so many injustices that you commit.
Saint Basil
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While I live, every criminal must die.
Pope Sixtus V
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What is the benefit of fasting in our body while filling our souls with innumerable evils? He who does not play at dice, but spends his leisure otherwise, what nonsense does he not utter? What absurdities does he not listen to? Leisure without the fear of God is, for those who do not know how to use time, the teacher of wickedness.
Saint Basil
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To heal the breach between the rich and the poor, it is necessary to distinguish between justice and charity.
Pope Pius X
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I have sinned against my brother the ass.
Francis of Assisi
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I was born poor, I have lived poor, I wish to die poor.
Pope Pius X
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You can see that a city is prosperous by the wealth of goods for sale in the market. Land too we call prosperous if it bears rich fruit. And so also the soul may be counted prosperous if it is full of good works of every kind.
Saint Basil
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Be praised, O my Lord by Brother Wind, By air and cloud and every clime To whom Thou givest sustenance unto their kind.
Francis of Assisi
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Drunkenness, the ruin of reason, the destruction of strength, premature old age, momentary death.
Saint Basil
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