Quotes on Christian

Father of mercy and God of all consolation, graciously look upon me and impart to me the blessing which flows from this holy Sacrament. Overshadow me with Your loving kindness, and let this divine Mystery bear fruit in me.

It is not that I want merely to be called a Christian, but actually to be one. Yes, if I prove to be one, then I can have the name.

The cross of Christ is the true ground and chief cause of Christian hope.

The wisest have the most authority.

Christians are to be taught that the pope would and should wish to give of his own money, even though he had to sell the basilica of St. Peter, to many of those from whom certain hawkers of indulgences cajole money.

It is in the ordinary duties and labors of life that the Christian can and should develop his spiritual union with God.

Real love is demanding. I would fail in my mission if I did not clearly tell you so. For it was Jesus - our Jesus himself - who said: 'You are my friends if you do what I command you'. Love demands effort and a personal commitment to the will of God. It means discipline and sacrifice, but it also means joy and human fulfilment.

The person who does not decide to love forever will find it very difficult to really love for even one day.

My director, Jesus, does not teach me to count my acts, but to do everything for love, to refuse Him nothing, to be pleased when He gives me a chance to prove to Him that I love Him - but all this in peace - in abandonment.

The Eucharist is the Sacrament of Love; It signifies Love, It produces love. The Eucharist is the consummation of the whole spiritual life.

To the Christian, love is the works of love. To say that love is a feeling or anything of the kind is an unchristian conception of love. That is the aesthetic definition and therefore fits the erotic and everything of that nature. But to the Christian love is the works of love. Christ's love was not an inner feeling, a full heart and what not, it was the work of love which was his life.

I do not know if there is a more dreadful word in the English language than that word "lost."

God made life, and God alone can tell us its meaning.

Faith is like the hand of the beggar that takes the gift while adding nothing to it.

Not everyone is your brother or sister in the faith, but everyone is your neighbor, and you must love your neighbor.

Let thy hope of heaven master thy fear of death.

To throw the Christian into the furnace is to put him into Christ's parlor; for lo! Jesus Christ is walking with him.

A little lie is like a little pregnancy it doesn't take long before everyone knows.

If worship does not change us it has not been worship.

The primary limitation in life is our low expectations for ourselves and others. When we expect minimum results, that's usually what we get.

God, in the end, gives people what they most want, including freedom from himself. What could be more fair?