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“At the judgment, in response to our questions, the Lord will show us his wounds, and we will understand. In the meantime, however, he simply expects us to stand by him and to believe what these wounds tell us, even though we cannot work right through the logic of this world.”

World Believe Shows Inspiration Faith Lord This World Judgment Logic Response Christian Inspirational Wounds

Author:Pope Benedict XVI

“Only from God does true revolution come... the definitive way to change the world.”

World Way Doe Inspiration Faith Revolution Christian Inspirational Changing The World

Book:God's Revolution: World Youth Day and Other Cologne Talks

Source: God's Revolution: World Youth Day and Other Cologne Talks

“Our own evil inclinations are far more dangerous than any external enemies.”

Inspiration Faith Evil Enemy Dangerous Catholic Christian Inspirational Inclination Bishops

Author:Ambrose

“All the troubles of the Church, all the evils in the world, flow from this source: that men do not by clear and sound knowledge and serious consideration penetrate into the truths of Sacred Scripture.”

Men World Inspiration Faith Evil Sound Church Clear Trouble Serious Source Flow Sacred Christian Inspirational Scripture Consideration Penetrate Sacred Scripture

Author:Teresa of Avila

“It has always been one of my unclerical sermons to myself, that that remark which Peter made on seeing the vision of a single hour, ought to be made by us all, in contemplating every panoramic change in the long Vision we call life... "It is good for us to be here - it is good for us to be here", repeating itself eternally.”

Long Made Inspiration Faith Hours Vision Seeing Ought Christian Inspirational Peter Contemplating Sermons Remarks

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“The world needs transparent lives, clear souls, pure minds that refuse to be perceived as mere objects of pleasure.”

World Needs Mind Soul Inspiration Faith Pleasure Clear Objects Pure Mere Refuse Christian Inspirational Transparent

Book:Holiness Is Always in Season

Source: Holiness Is Always in Season

“The cross means there is no shipwreck without hope; there is no dark without dawn; nor storm without haven.”

Mean Inspiration Faith Dark Havens Crosses Catholic Storm Christian Inspirational Dawn Without Hope Shipwreck

Author:Pope John Paul II

“Eternal Trinity... mystery deep as the sea, You could give me no greater gift than the gift of Yourself. For You are a fire ever burning and never consumed, which itself consumes all the selfish love that fills my being.”

Giving Inspiration Faith Fire Greater Mystery Sea Eternal Give Me Selfish Christian Inspirational Burning Consumed Trinity Selfish Love

Author:St. Catherine of Siena

“Holy is the dish and drain, the soap and sink, and the cup and plate and the warm wool socks, and the cold white tile, showerheads and good dry towelsand frying eggs sound like psalms, with bits of salt measured in my palm. It's all a part of a sacrament, as holy as a day is spent.”

Inspiration Faith Bits Sound White Cold Holy Warm Christian Inspirational Cups Dry Eggs Salt Plates Dishes Sacraments Palms Soap Drains Sock Psalms Wool Frying Tiles

Author:Carrie Newcomer

“Everything is a grace, everything is the direct effect of our Father's love - difficulties, contradictions, humiliations, all the soul's miseries, her burdens, her needs - everything, because through them, she learns humility, realizes her weakness. Everything is a grace because everything is God's gift. Whatever be the character of life or its unexpected events - to the heart that loves, all is well.”

“The brilliance of contemplated beauty opens the spirit to the mystery of God.”

Inspiration Spirit Faith Mystery Christian Inspirational Brilliance Mystery Of God

Author:Angelo Sodano

“Each time we look upon the poor, on the farmworkers who harvest the coffee, the sugarcane, or the cotton... remember, there is the face of Christ.”

Looks Inspiration Remember Faces Faith Christ Poor Coffee Christian Inspirational Look Up Harvest Cotton

Author:Oscar Romero

“To love is to be transformed into what we love. To love God is therefore to be transformed into God.”

Inspiration Faith Love Is Christian Inspirational God Love Transformed God Is There

Author:John of the Cross

“The highest things, the things that really matter, we cannot achieve on our own; we have to accept them as gifts and enter in to the dynamic of the gift, so to speak.”

Matter Inspiration Faith Speak Accepting Achieve Highest Christian Inspirational

Book:Jesus of Nazareth: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration

Source: Jesus of Nazareth: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration

“Our Lord needs from us neither great deeds nor profound thoughts. Neither intelligence nor talents. He cherishes simplicity.”

Needs Inspiration Faith Lord Talent Profound Simplicity Deeds Christian Inspirational Cherish Our Lord Profound Thoughts

Author:Therese of Lisieux

“The Rosary is the book of the blind, where souls see and there enact the greatest drama of love the world has ever known; it is the book of the simple, which initiates them into mysteries and knowledge more satisfying than the education of other men.”

“For in this world, marked by sin, the gravitational pull of our lives is weighted by the chains of the "I" and the "self." These chains must be broken to free us for a new love that places us in another gravitational field where we can enter new life.”

World Self Inspiration Life Is Faith Sin Our Lives Fields This World Broken Christian Inspirational Chains New Life

Book:Jesus of Nazareth

Source: Jesus of Nazareth

“If I ever become a Saint - I will surely be one of "darkness." I will continually be absent from heaven - to light the light of those in darkness on earth.”

Ifs Light Inspiration Earth Faith Heaven Darkness Saint Christian Inspirational Absent

Book:A Call to Mercy: Hearts to Love, Hands to Serve

Source: A Call to Mercy: Hearts to Love, Hands to Serve

“The block of marble is not the sculptor, and doesn't see that he's about to become a masterpiece... We're the block of marble and God is the sculptor, and the chisel is.... everything.”

Inspiration Faith Christian Inspirational Block Masterpiece Marble Sculptors Chisels

Author:Peter Kreeft

“Holiness is irresistible. If even 10% of the world's population had it the whole world would be converted and happy before the year's end.”

Ifs World Years Ends Whole Inspiration Would Be Faith Population Christian Inspirational Whole World Holiness Irresistible

Author:C. S. Lewis

“In an age that has thrown off all tradition, the only rebellion possible is orthodoxy.”

Inspiration Age Faith Tradition Christian Inspirational Thrown Rebellion Orthodoxy

Author:Peter Kreeft

“Sick, our nature demanded to be healed; fallen, to be raised up; dead, to rise again... Closed in the darkness, it was necessary to bring us the light; captives, we awaited a Savior... Are these things minor or insignificant? Did they not move God to descend to human nature and visit it, since humanity was in so miserable and unhappy a state?”

Humans States Light Inspiration Moving Faith Humanity Darkness Human Nature Sick Raised Christian Inspirational Unhappy Miserable Fallen Savior Minors Insignificant Healed Captives

Author:Gregory of Nyssa

“If we approach with faith, we too will see Jesus... for the Eucharistic table takes the place of the crib. Here the Body of the Lord is present, wrapped not in swaddling clothes but in the rays of the Holy Spirit.”

Ifs Body Inspiration Spirit Faith Jesus Lord Holy Approach Clothes Tables Christian Inspirational Holy Spirit Rays Eucharistic

Author:Saint John Chrysostom

“Yes, the civilization of love is possible; it is not a utopia. But it is only possible by a constant and ready reference to the "Father from whom all fatherhood and motherhood on earth is named," from whom every human family comes.”

Humans Inspiration Earth Faith Father Love Is Ready Civilization Constant Motherhood Christian Inspirational Fatherhood Utopia Human Family

Author:Pope John Paul II

“My television is the tabernacle.”

Inspiration Faith Television Christian Inspirational

Author:Mother Teresa

“Let us rise above the things that pass away. Up above, the air is so pure. Jesus can hide Himself but we will find Him there.”

Inspiration Faith Jesus Air Pure Christian Inspirational Rise Above Passing Away

Author:Therese of Lisieux

“The Gospel is not merely a communication of things that can be known - it is one that makes things happen and is life-changing. The dark door of time, of the future, has been thrown open. The one who has hope lives differently; the one who hopes has been granted the gift of a new life.”

Has Beens Inspiration Happens Faith Dark Known Doors Communication Christian Inspirational Things Happen Granted Life Changing Thrown New Life Having Hope Make Things Happen

Author:Pope Benedict XVI

“To the servant of God... every place is the right place, and every time is the right time.”

Inspiration Faith Christian Inspirational Servant Right Time Right Place Servant Of God

Author:St. Catherine of Siena

“You ask me whether I am in good spirits. How could I not be so? As long as Faith gives me strength I will always be joyful. Sadness ought to be banished from Catholic souls... the purpose for which we have been created shows us the path; even if strewn with many thorns, it is not a sad path. It is joyful even in the face of sorrow.”

“Sometimes we are looked upon as people who speak only of prohibitions. Nothing could be further from the truth! Authentic Christian discipleship is marked by a sense of wonder. We stand before the God we know and love as a friend, the vastness of his creation, and the beauty of our Christian faith.”

People Knows Sometimes Inspiration Christian Faith Speak Wonder Creation And Love Christian Inspirational Discipleship Prohibition Christian Faith Vastness Sense Of Wonder Christian Discipleship

Book:Pope Benedict in America: The Full Texts of Papal Talks Given During His Apostolic Visit to the United States

Source: Pope Benedict in America: The Full Texts of Papal Talks Given During His Apostolic Visit to the United States

“Singing is a lover's thing.”

Inspiration Faith Lovers Singing Christian Inspirational

Author:Saint Augustine

“The proof of love is in the works. Where love exists, it works great things. But when it ceases to act, it ceases to exist.”

Love Inspiration Christian Faith Love Is Catholic Saint Proof Christian Inspirational Cease Great Things Catholic Saint Catholic Faith Lenten Proof Of Love

Author:Pope Gregory I

“The field of earth and of our human nature is now no longer barren but full of the seed of divine life. But it takes time for the seed to grow, for the Kingdom to come, and we are commanded to pray and work for that coming, that growth, even if we do not yet see the fruits, or even the blossoms, or even the leaves...”

Ifs Humans Inspiration Earth Faith Grows Growth Human Nature Fields Divine Praying Fruit Seeds Christian Inspirational Kingdoms Take Time Barren It Takes Time Divine Life

Author:Peter Kreeft

“Our first experience of God is so important, we either experience Him as the police guard that wants to punish or as Creative Love that awaits.”

Want Firsts Important Inspiration Faith Creative Police Christian Inspirational Creative Love

Author:Pope Benedict XVI

“Can man, the finite and sinful one, cooperate with God, the Infinite and Holy One? Yes, he can, precisely because God Himself has become man, become body, and here (in the liturgy), again and again, he comes through his body to us who live in the body.”

Men Body Inspiration Faith Holy Infinite Christian Inspirational Again And Again Finite Liturgy

Book:Joseph Ratzinger Collected Works: Theology of the Liturgy

Source: Joseph Ratzinger Collected Works: Theology of the Liturgy

“Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.”

Believe Inspiration Faith Can Do Impossible Incredibles Christian Inspirational

Author:Fulton J. Sheen

“It is better to say one Our Father fervently and devoutly than a thousand with no devotion and full of distraction.”

Inspiration Faith Father Thousand Christian Inspirational Devotion Distraction Our Father

Author:Edmund the Martyr

“The heart is our hidden center, beyond the grasp of our reason and of others; only the Spirit of God can fathom the human heart and know it fully. The heart is the place of decision, deeper than our psychic drives. It is the place of truth, where we choose life or death. It is the place of encounter.”

Knows Humans Heart Reason Inspiration Spirit Faith Decision Deeper Christian Inspirational Encounters Human Heart Psychics Spirit Of God Fathom Life Or Death Choose Life

Author:Pope John Paul II

“There is no need to be dismayed if love sometimes follows torturous ways. Grace has the power to make straight the paths of human love.”

Ifs Way Needs Humans Sometimes Inspiration Faith Path Grace Christian Inspirational Human Love Dismayed

Author:Pope John Paul II

“God calls us, just as he called Abraham, away from the security we knew, out of our old, familiar, little room, down the ladder of faith and into his arms. Jesus called his disciples that way - just as a lover elopes with his beloved.”

Way Littles Inspiration Faith Jesus Rooms Security Arms Lovers Christian Inspirational Familiar Beloved Disciple Ladders Abraham

Book:Three Philosophies of Life: Ecclesiastes--life as Vanity, Job--life as Suffering, Song of Songs--life as Love

Source: Three Philosophies of Life: Ecclesiastes--life as Vanity, Job--life as Suffering, Song of Songs--life as Love

“Man must reconcile himself to his natural greatness.... he must not forget that he is a person.”

Men Persons Inspiration Faith Natural Forget Greatness Christian Inspirational Reconcile

Author:Pope John Paul II

“Every blade of grass is a blade of grace, a grace note in God's single Song. Nature is not blind and dumb. Nature is eloquent. Human science is blind and dumb if it does not hear this eloquence.”

Ifs Humans Doe Inspiration Faith Song Grace Blind Notes Christian Inspirational Dumb Grass Blades Eloquence Eloquent Blades Of Grass

Book:Three Philosophies of Life: Ecclesiastes, Job, and Song of Songs

Source: Three Philosophies of Life: Ecclesiastes, Job, and Song of Songs

“I believe that in a certain way this is proof of the truth of Christianity: Heart and reason encounter one another, beauty and truth converge, and the more that we ourselves succeed in living in the beauty of truth, the more that faith will be able to return to being creative in our time too, and to express itself in a convincing form of art.”

Way Believe Heart Art Reason Inspiration Able Form Certain Faith I Believe Christianity Creative Return Succeed Proof Christian Inspirational Our Time Encounters Be Creative Convincing

Author:Pope Benedict XVI

“When I think of that dear rugged cross where the dear Saviour gave his all... When I feel like I'm on my last go round, see me through.”

Thinking Feels Inspiration Lasts Faith Crosses Rounds Dear Christian Inspirational Saviour Rugged

Author:Van Morrison

“The world promises you comfort, but you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness.”

World Made Inspiration Faith Greatness Comfort Promise Christian Inspirational

Author:Pope Benedict XVI

“Your heart is like an infinitely large hole, and only God is big enough to fill it.”

Heart Enough Bigs Inspiration Faith Christian Inspirational Holes

Book:Because God Is Real: Sixteen Questions, One Answer

Source: Because God Is Real: Sixteen Questions, One Answer

“Enrich your soul in the great goodness of God: The Father is your table, the Son is your food, and the Holy Spirit waits on you and then makes His dwelling in you.”

Soul Inspiration Spirit Faith Father Waiting Son Holy Goodness Tables Christian Inspirational Your Soul Holy Spirit Dwelling Goodness Of God

Author:St. Catherine of Siena

“Christ used the flesh and blood of Mary for his life on earth, the Word of love was uttered in her heartbeat. Christ used his own body to utter his love on earth; his perfectly real body, with bone and sinew and blood and tears; Christ uses our bodies to express his love on earth, our humanity. A Christian life is a sacramental life, it is not a life lived only in the mind, only by the soul... Our humanity is the substance of the sacramental life of Christ in us, like the wheat for the host, like the grape for the chalice.”

Source: A Rocking-Horse Catholic: A Caryll Houselander Reader

“Believers do not surrender. They can continue on their way to the truth because they are certain that God has created them "explorers", whose mission is to leave no stone unturned, though the temptation to doubt is always there. Leaning on God, they continue to reach out, always and everywhere, for all that is beautiful, good, and true.”

Way Inspiration Beautiful Certain Faith Doubt Truth Is Stones Missions Believer Christian Inspirational Surrender Temptation Reach Out Explorers

Book:Faith and Reason: Encyclical Letter Fides Et Ratio of the Supreme Pontiff John Paul II to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Relationship Between Faith and Reason

Source: Faith and Reason: Encyclical Letter Fides Et Ratio of the Supreme Pontiff John Paul II to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Relationship Between Faith and Reason

“Violence against even one human being is violence against all.”

Humans Inspiration Faith Human Beings Violence Christian Inspirational

Author:Pope Benedict XVI