Quotations that Motivate & Inspire

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"The Lord has commanded us to do good and reject evil; but not to

reject the good with the evil.

We are not to deny at the same time both truth and error"

Pope Saint Martin I

i.e. Don't throw out the baby with the bathwater ............gold is wherever it is found.

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"Every moment comes to us pregnant with a command from God

only to plunge into eternity,

there to remain forever what we have made of it."

St Francis de Sales

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The great Easter truth is not that we are to love newly after death,

but that we are to be new here and now

by the power of the resurrection.

- Phillips Brooks

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Many things are possible for the person who has hope.  Even more is possible for the person who has Faith.  And still more is possible for the person who knows how to love.

But everything is possible for the person who practices all three virtues.

Brother Lawrence

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"Baptism is about giving control of one's life to God"

Mob Wives Television Series

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"Genuine goodness

is a matter of habitually acting and responding appropriately in each situation as it arises,

moved always by the desire to please God."- The Cloud of Unknowing

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"Here below, Love without suffering does not exist"

 

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"We must get rid of the pestilent, deadly notion that the amount of things we get through is the standard. The steadiness with which we radiate God is the standard."

- Evelyn Underhill

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It is never what I am doing, it is the person I am when I am doing whatever I might be doing -  be it great or be it small, important or most humble and unimportant in the eyes of this world i.e. in human estimation.  United to Divine Providence i.e. God's Will, all is equal, great and important.  

It is nothing of mine, nothing of me

that is holy. 

It is God's Will, His Divine Providence that is holy.

Edited April 29, 2019 by BarbaraTherese

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"In times of desolation, God conceals Himself from us

that we might discover for ourselves

what we are without Him"

St  Margaret of Cortona

 

Edited April 30, 2019 by BarbaraTherese

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Hope is............

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“For me prayer is a surge of the heart,

it is a simple look towards Heaven, it is a cry of recognition and of love,

embracing both trial and joy.”
-St. Therese of Lisieux

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"What is it that is lacking in people nowadays and even in believers.  It is the Cross because in the Mystery of the Cross there is everything: there is faith, there is obedience, there is human pain, there is the way of Glory."

Blessed Dominic Lentini

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"To suffer and to be happy although suffering, to have one's feet on the earth, to walk on the dirty and rough paths of this earth and yet to be enthroned with Christ at the Father's right hand, to laugh and cry with the children of this world and ceaselessly sing the praises of God with the choirs of angels - this is the life of the Christian until the morning of eternity breaks forth."

St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross
(Edith Stein)

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In our fluctuations of feeling,

it is well to remember that Jesus admits no change in His affections;

your heart is not the compass Jesus sails by.
- Sam Rutherford

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"It is impossible to love Christ without loving others in proportion as these others are moving towards Christ. And it is impossible to love others in a spirit of broad human communion without moving nearer to Christ."

- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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An excellent and important read is "Theology and Sanity" by Frank Sheed.  I am into my third read (over quite a few years) of this wonderful work.  Quoting from the back cover:

"Of Sheed's many books,this is my favourite not just because it is the clearest explanation of The Trinity ever put on paper,but because it proves that the Catholic view of reality can satisfy our mental hunger"

"Vatican II issued an urgent call for the laity to take a more active role in the life of The Church.  What should the life of the Christian believer be like? How are average lay Catholics called to help save the world? How does theology fall into the picture".

 

Pdf https://epdf.tips/theology-and-sanity.html

Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Theology-Sanity-Frank-Sheed/dp/1684221005 - Paperback $13.75 - 420 Pages

 

 

Edit:  This book would just have to be a Catholic classic by now.