Inspirational Catholic Quotes & Sayings

Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence. — Kingsley Amis

The capacity for growth depends on one's ability to internalize and to take personal responsibility. If we forever see our life as a problem caused by others, a problem to be "solved," then no change will occur. — James Hollis

At the root of all misery is unfulfilled desire. — Scott Hahn

Staring thus closely at time we suddenly realize that what many look upon as a bromide is really a bombshell; namely, the fact that "there is no time like the present." Indeed, no! For it is the only time God grants to any of us. He does not give us years, months, days, or even hours. He grants us nothing but the truly, indivisible, yet immense and immeasurable, Now. This is "your time" - part of "your hour. — M. Raymond

If she were Catholic, she could kneel, kneel and bow her head inside a church with brilliant stained-glass windows and streaks of golden light falling over her. Yes, oh yes, she would kneel and stretch out her arms, holding to her Amy and Dottie and Bev. — Elizabeth Strout

Love for our neighbours does not die the minute we enter heaven, it intensifies. — E.A. Bucchianeri

You will not lift the veil of my body until you lift the veil over my face. — Jason Evert

The hagaddah came to Sarajevo for a reason. It was here to test us, to see if there were people who could see that what united us was more than what divided us. That to be a human being matters more than to be a Jew or a Muslim, Catholic or Orthodox. p. 361 — Geraldine Brooks

There are about 20 people in my life that I want to love me, and none of them are the 'Daily Mail.' — Martin Freeman

Love is something worth suffering for... — Scott Hahn

I'm just really happy. — Jacoby Jones

If we who self-designate ourselves with terms like "Catholic," "Orthodox," "Protestant," "Evangelical," "Charismatic," "Pentecostal" and others would fully surrender ourselves to The Holy Spirit, we could stop focusing on the secondary words we use to describe the primary experience of The Holy Spirit. — John David Geib

They said I would never live. I lived. They said I would never think. I think. They said I would never walk. I walked. They said I would never dance, but I never danced anyway. — Benedict Groeschel

Let us sing as we go. May our struggles and our concern for this planet never take away the joy of our hope. — Pope Francis

Prayer is the key that opens heaven; the favors we ask descend upon us the very instant our prayers ascend to God. — Augustine Of Hippo

The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. — Georges Bernanos

If you complain to someone, you assume that it's someone who really cares about you. — Scott Hahn

I really don't bother asking why, i bother myself on asking how it can be done.. — Jinnul Jr.

Do grant, oh my God, that when my lips approach Yours to kiss You, I may taste the gall that was given to You; when my shoulders lean against Yours, make me feel Your scourging; when my flesh is united with Yours, in the Holy Eucharist, make me feel Your passion; when my head comes near Yours, make me feel Your thorns; when my heart is close to Yours, make me feel Your spear. — Gemma Galgani

The world of atheism was cracking apart for me, just as once the world of Catholic faith had cracked apart. I was losing my faith in the nonexistence of God. — Anne Rice

That's it. Love makes us all strong. — E.A. Bucchianeri

But there is no such being as an ordinary man or woman if by ordinary you mean what so many people mean: negligible. Each human being is so tremendous that he or she merits a reverence that is really religious. For each is a creation of God; each a mirror of Divinity; each a feature or a facet on the Face of Christ; each an object of constant care and concern to the Trinity. There is nothing ordinary in the sense that so many of us use that word, about any human being. — M. Raymond

[God] disciplines us for our good, that we may share His holiness. — Scott Hahn

Ceramic trade goods involved interconnected markets from Mexico City to Mesa Verde, Colorado. Shells from the Gulf of California, tropical bird feathers from the Gulf Coast area of Mexico, obsidian from Durango, Mexico, and flint from Texas were all found in the ruins of Casa Grande (Arizona), the commercial center of the northern frontier. — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

I feel that there's nothing more genuinely artistic than to love people. — Vincent Van Gogh

Lifting our cup means sharing our life so we can celebrate it. When we truly believe we are called to lay down our lives for our friends, we must dare to take the risk to let others know what we are living. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

Girls ... only lift the veil over your body to the spouse who is worthy to see the glory of that unveiled mystery. — Jason Evert

I am a haystack in a needle of time. — Bryant McGill

God withholds Himself from no one who perseveres. — Teresa Of Avila

Were I a Roman Catholic, perhaps I should on this occasion vow to build a chapel to some saint, but as I am not, if I were to vow at all, it should be to build a light-house.
[Letter to his wife, 17 July 1757, after narrowly avoiding a shipwreck; often misquoted as "Lighthouses are more helpful than churches."] — Benjamin Franklin

He did apologize profusely. (Does anyone do anything profusely except apologize? Sweat, I guess.) — Gillian Flynn

What our closest friends do for us is to teach us true selflessness. We learn that while it might be safer for them if we keep them out, true friendship means letting them in. We cannot decide for them what they are willing to suffer with us and for us. While we certainly don't want to see our friends suffer, friendship isn't about protecting each other from pain so much as it is about helping each other to become what God has called us to be. — Mark Mossa

But have you ever overheard two women discussing men? Men are crude liars, comparing their drabs, but women - I'd rather have [an] anatomist dissect me alive than to listen to the things the ladies say about us when they think they are alone. — Lois McMaster Bujold

It's a blessed thing to love and feel loved in return. — E.A. Bucchianeri

All we have is our vote. But it's powerful. — Adam McKay

The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us? — Dorothy Day

You do need prayer, more than you know, ' Carita said softly. 'Prayer is the keynote. Prayer isn't the preparation to accomplish the purposes of Adon Olam. It is the accomplishment of His purposes. Great works are done through prayer. — Erika Mathews

It did matter to get out of bed. There were webs to weave. Strings to grasp. Packages to deliver. Conversations to start. Thoughts to be expressed. Sams to slam into. Oceans to swim. And sad little men hiding in electrical sockets, waiting to be born of the human imagination. — Bud Macfarlane Jr.

You have always regarded women as disposable, my lord, and you cannot complain if in the end they think the same of you. — Hilary Mantel