“We all must have the faith of children, but the doctrine of theologians.” Quote by Josemaria Escriva
“During a frustrating argument with a Roman Catholic cardinal, Napoleon Bonaparte supposedly burst out: “Your eminence, are you not aware that I have the power to destroy the Catholic Church?” The cardinal, the anecdote goes, responded ruefully: “Your majesty, we, the Catholic clergy, have done our best to destroy the church for the last 1,800 years. We have not succeeded, and neither will you.”” YearsDoneLastsChurchArgumentCatholicCatholicismFrustratingMajestyCatholic ChurchCardinalsClergyAnecdotesEminenceRoman CatholicBonaparte Author:Ross Douthat
“And I have found that when we Catholics, in the spirit of love and charity, declare our faith boldly and with conviction, we are more likely to find kindred spirits. This is how we must comport ourselves if we are to fulfill our Lord's command in the Gospel of John (17:21), Ut unum sint, that all may be one.” IfsMaySpiritFoundLordCatholicCharityConvictionCommandCatholicismOur LordKindredKindred SpiritGospel Of John Author:Benedict Groeschel
“The forgiveness of God is one thing, but the proof that we want that forgiveness is the energy we expend to make amends for the wrong.” WantGodEnergyReligiousOne ThingForgivenessProofCatholicismWrongPreacherAmendsMaking Amends Book:WAY TO HAPPY LIVING Source: WAY TO HAPPY LIVING
“A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.” MenLooksFeelingsAgeAgingOld AgeBirthdayOld PeopleYouth And Old AgeAge And Youth Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“God always forgives when you are totally repentant and you desire to change. He forgives... and He never gets tired of forgiving. Never. You may get tired asking. I hope not. He never, never tires of forgiving. Never.” MayDesireAskingForgivingTiredCatholicismTireDesire To Change Author:Mother Angelica
“It was easy to know the doctrine. It's much harder to help a billion people live it.” PeopleKnowsHelpingEasyHarderBillionsDoctrineCatholicism Author:Pope Benedict XVI
“I begin each day with holy Mass, receiving Jesus hidden under the appearance of a simple piece of bread. Then I go out into the streets and I find the same Jesus hidden in the dying destitute, the AIDS patients, the lepers, the abandoned children, the hungry, and the homeless. It's the same Jesus.” ChildrenJesusSimplePiecesStreetsDyingHolyMassPatientAppearanceAidsHungryBreadEach DayCatholicismAbandonedReceivingHomelessDestituteLeperHoly Mass Author:Mother Teresa
“Prayer is helplessness casting itself on Power, infirmity leaning on Strength, misery reaching to Mercy, and a prisoner clamoring for Relief.” PrayerMercyMiseryReliefReachingCatholicismPrisonerCastingHelplessnessInfirmity Author:Fulton J. Sheen
“That there should be some fire even after this life is not incredible, and it can be inquired into and either be discovered or left hidden whether some of the faithful may be saved, some more slowly and some more quickly in the greater or lesser degree in which they loved the good things that perish, through a certain purgatorial fire.” ShouldMayLife IsCertainLeftFireGreaterDegreesGood ThingsIncrediblesSavedThis LifeFaithfulCatholicismPurgatory Author:Saint Augustine
“Temporal punishments are suffered by some in this life only, by some after death, by some both here and hereafter, but all of them before that last and strictest judgment. But not all who suffer temporal punishments after death will come to eternal punishments, which are to follow after that judgment.” LastsSufferingJudgmentEternalPunishmentThis LifeCatholicismAfter DeathHereafterPurgatory Author:Saint Augustine