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Catholic Priest Inspirational Quotes (3238)

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The Puritan has passed the Catholic remains.
William Henry O'Connell
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The walls are raised against honest men in civic life.
William Henry O'Connell
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The greater and more persistent your confidence in God, the more abundantly you will receive all that you ask.
Albertus Magnus
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I have never gone out to mingle with the world without losing something of myself.
Albertus Magnus
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Natural science does not consist in ratifying what others have said, but in seeking the causes of phenomena.
Albertus Magnus
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In this way, if you continue all the time in the way we have described from the beginning, it will become as easy and clear for you to remain in contemplation in your inward and recollected state, as to live in the natural state.
Albertus Magnus
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Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.
Thomas a Kempis
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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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Even prostitutes, alcoholics, embezzlers - I won't rehearse the whole catalogue - need health insurance.
William Levada
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No one should think he can quickly dispose of questions posed here offhandedly. It was precisely because writers were in the habit during the time of the Reformation of theologizing with a hammer that the split in the Church became irreparable. And to work at overcoming this split means much effort. Only the patient need apply.
Hans Urs von Balthasar
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Epic: A Journey Through Church History fills an urgent need for adult Catholics to recover their history as a believing community, debunk false criticisms of their Church, and understand the Christian underpinnings of the modern world. This is a vivid, thorough and engaging program. I heartily recommend it.
Charles J. Chaput
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We enter into solitude first of all to meet our Lord and to be with him and him alone. Only in the context of grace can we face our sin only in the place of healing do we dare to show our wounds only with a singleminded attention to Christ can we give up our clinging fears and face our own true nature.
Henri Nouwen
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I have sought for happiness everywhere, but I have found it nowhere except in a little corner with a little book.
Thomas a Kempis
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The greatest defect of common education is, that we are in the habit of putting pleasure all on one side, and weariness on the other all weariness in study, all pleasure in idleness.
Francois Fenelon
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All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.
Francois Fenelon
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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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The phrase, 'You must die before you die,' is found in most of the world religions. If you don't learn how to die early, you spend the rest of your life avoiding failure. When you can free your True Self, the whole spiritual life opens up.
Richard Rohr
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Simply being with someone is difficult because it asks of us that we share in the other's vulnerability, enter with him or her into the experience of weakness and powerlessness, become part of the uncertainty, and give up control and self-determination.
Henri Nouwen
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Contemplation is not and cannot be a function of this external self. There is an irreducible opposition between the deep transcendent self that awakens only in contemplation, and the superficial, external self which we commonly identify with the first person singular.
Thomas Merton
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We must love our neighbor as being made in the image of God and as an object of His love.
Vincent de Paul
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Only when we can accept God as he is can we give up the desire for spiritual experiences that we can feel.
Thomas Keating
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Christ didn't leave us a book of instructions He left us a body, a family - a Church. If it were perfectly clear, there wouldn't be any freedom.
Francis George
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Voting is a civic sacrament.
Theodore Hesburgh
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Many priests say that retirement is more identified with freedom from meetings, budgets, personnel conflicts, and dealing with the Chancery. Even as I struggled not to take that last point too personally, I was reminded that I have heard the same sentiment from many of my bishop friends as well!
Wilton Daniel Gregory
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