Quotes on Catholic

Purity is the fruit of prayer.

If you follow the will of God, you know that in spite of all the terrible things that happen to you, you will never lose a final refuge. You know that the foundation of the world is love, so that even when no human being can or will help you, you may go on, trusting in the One that loves you.

The poor are great! The poor are wonderful! The poor are very generous! They give us much more than what we give them.

I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

Whatever skills I have acquired, whatever gifts I have been given, I place them at Your service.

It's the living, the eating, the sleeping that everyone needs. Ideas don't matter so much after all. My three best friends are Catholic. I can't see their beliefs, but I can see the things they love to do on earth. When you come right down to it, I do believe in the freedom of the individual.

The greatest act of faith is that which rises to your lips in total darkness together with the sacrifices, sufferings and wholehearted efforts of a determined will to do good. This act of faith strikes through the darkness of your soul like lightening. In the midst of tempest it raises you up and leads you to God.

Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?

I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.

Action and contemplation are very close companions; they live together in one house on equal terms. Martha and Mary are sisters.

Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.

My dad said, 'In school, be a Catholic. At home, be a Hindu.' So we did both.

I can only become perfectly free by serving the will of God.

All Catholics must ask themselves what they personally have done lately to build up the holiness of the church and ensure people feel welcomed and loved in it.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.

Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.

Gratitude is a flower that blooms in noble souls.

I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.

From the Cross, Christ teaches us to love even those who do not love us.

It is an absurd law [Section 295A of the Indian penal code] but also extremely dangerous because it gives fanatics, whether they are Hindus, Catholics or Muslims, a licence to be offended. It also allows people who are in dispute with you to make up false accusations of blasphemy.