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“Hear Mass daily; it will prosper the whole day. All your duties will be performed the better for it, and your soul will be stronger to bear its daily cross. The Mass is the most holy act of religion; you can do nothing that can give greater glory to God or be more profitable for your soul than to hear Mass both frequently and devoutly. It is the favorite devotion of the saints.”

Giving Soul Whole Inspiration Faith Can Do Greater Duty Bears Holy Mass Glory Crosses Stronger Catholic Saint Devotion Your Soul Profitable Glory Of God

Author:Peter Julian Eymard

“Though I have usually posed as a Catholic, I have not done my duty for 15 years, and have not the slightest tincture of faith left.”

Years Done Left Duty Catholic

Author:James Connolly

“Being raised Catholic in a pressure-cooker household besieged by alcohol and bill collectors enforced and heightened a sense of sentry duty in me, the oldest of five children and the one most responsible for keeping everything from capsizing. Wild indulgence was for other people, the non-worriers.”

People Children Five Duty Pressure Responsible Catholic Bills Raised Alcohol Household Indulgence Collectors Cookers

Author:James Wolcott

“It is a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. Now this dogma would make it impossible for me to be a Roman Catholic. If I thought of God as another being like myself, outside myself, only infinitely more powerful, then I would regard it as my duty to defy him.”

Ifs Reason Natural Church Powerful Existence Power Impossible Duty Regard Catholic Catholicism Dogma Existence Of God Roman Catholic

Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein

“...it is proper that the duty of helping the poor and unfortunate should especially stir Catholics, since they are members of the Mystical Body of Christ. In this we have come to know the love of God, said John the Apostle, that He laid down His life for us, and we likewise ought to lay down our life for the brethren. He who has the goods of this world and sees his brother in need and closes his heart to him, how does the love of God abide in him? (1Jn 3:16 17)”

“As long as leadership from above was not lacking, the people fulfilled their duty and obligation overwhelmingly. Whether Protestant pastor or Catholic priest, both together and particularly at the first flare, there really existed in both camps but a single holy German Reich, for whose existence and future each man turned to his own heaven.”

People Men Firsts Long Together Heaven Religious Existence Duty Holy Catholic Obligation Priests Catholicism Camps Fulfilled Lacking Pastor Protestants Mein Kampf Flare

Book:Mein Kampf

Source: Mein Kampf

“With Christians, a poetical view of things is a duty. We are bid to color all things with hues of faith, to see a divine meaning in every event.”

Inspiration Christian Faith Views Events Divine Color Duty All Things Catholic Christian Inspirational Hue

Book:Poetry with reference to Aristotle's poetics. Introduction of rationalistic principles into revealed religion. Fall of La Mennais. Palmer's view of faith and unity. Theology of St. Ignatius. Prospects of the Anglican Church. The Anglo-American Church. Selina, Countess of Huntingdon

Source: Poetry with reference to Aristotle's poetics. Introduction of rationalistic principles into revealed religion. Fall of La Mennais. Palmer's view of faith and unity. Theology of St. Ignatius. Prospects of the Anglican Church. The Anglo-American Church. Selina, Countess of Huntingdon

“All of us must be saints in this world. Holiness is a duty for you and me. So let's be saints and so give glory to the Father.”

World Giving Father This World Duty Glory Catholic Saint Holiness

Author:Mother Teresa

“In the fulfillment of your duties, let your intentions be so pure that you reject from your actions any other motive than the glory of God and the salvation of souls.”

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Author:Pope John Paul II

“If we live the faith in our daily life, then our work too becomes a chance to spread the joy of being a Christian.”