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Catholic Priest Inspirational Quotes (3248)

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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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The mind has three operations: the formation of ideas, judgements and reasoning.
Fulton J. Sheen
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Beloved, all that is harsh and difficult I want for myself, and all that is gentle and sweet for thee.
John of the Cross
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This world and the world to come are two enemies. We cannot therefore be friends to both but we must decide which we will forsake and which we will enjoy.
Pope Clement I
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We are still tossed about by the disturbances of this life, which is like a stormy sea, where those who are not attached to J[esus] C[hrist] and the duties of their state, as was our dear departed, are shipwrecked.
Vincent de Paul
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A smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.
Fulton J. Sheen
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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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The Church does not dictate the policies of the nation. The Church proclaims the truth of God to which all these policies must conform.
Frank Pavone
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God desires the smallest degree of purity of conscience in you more than all the works you can perform.
John of the Cross
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Evangelization is a process of bringing the gospel to people where they are, not where you would like them to be. When the gospel reaches a people where they are, their response to the gospel is the church in a new place.
Paul Vincent Donovan
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thanks in MaoriGrateful living: an alchemic operation of converting disgraceful things into grateful events.
Raimon Panikkar
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We are developing in the United States a huge underclass of unwanted people, many of them the descendants of the exploitation of the South American and Latin American countries by American piratical capitalism. Not all capitalism is piratical, but some of it certainly is. And we have a fantastic gap beginning to exist between rich and poor.
Benedict Groeschel
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Every day of the year is a good day to think more deeply about Good Friday, for Good Friday is the drama of the love by which our every day is sustained.
Richard John Neuhaus
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A wise and good man will turn examples of all sorts to his own advantage. The good he will make his patterns, and strive to equal or excel them. The bad he will by all means avoid.
Thomas a Kempis
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Ethics and religion must not stay at home when we go to work.
Achille Silvestrini
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