Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Priests - Page 18

Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to technology, we can instantly communicate across the world, but it still doesn't help us know what to say.

Racism springs from the lie that certain human beings are less than fully human. It's a self-centered falsehood that corrupts our minds into believing we are right to treat others as we would not want to be treated.

Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies.

Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?

It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.

The Doctrine of the Trinity teaches that within the unity of the one Godhead there are three separate persons who are coequal in power, nature, and eternity.

Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.

When you find yourself overpowered, as it were, by melancholy, the best way is to go out and do something.

We must teach compassion and tolerance and encourage kindness, selflessness, and loving acceptance of all who are created in the image of God.

Christ made the bread the sacrament of his body only: wherefore as the bread is no similitude of his blood, so am I not bound or ought to affirm, that his blood is there present.

For it is, and must remain, the case that we must obey God rather than man.

As fire kindled by fire, so is the poet's mind kindled by contact with a brother poet.

As you are not yet married, and as marriage is the fundamental state of life as well as the unity of the commonwealth, make up your mind whether you are called to this state. If you make up your mind to marry, do not marry merely a good wife: marry a good mother to your children.

God can desire to enter into a relationship with us; he can be drawn to some aspect of our identity.

Obedience keeps the rules. Love knows when to break them.

If I have a fundamental belief that the universe is created by God, then I also come to the belief that that universe reflects God, it gives me some knowledge of Him. Obviously, therefore, the more I know of the universe is, the more enriched my limited knowledge of God is.

The most important of all the commandments of God is that one that you are having the most difficulty keeping today.

The act of greatest subversion ... is the one of indifference. A man, or a group, finds it unbearable that someone can be simply uninterested in his, or its, convictions. ... There is a degree of complicity, or mutual respect, between the believer and the man who attacks his beliefs (the revolutionary), for the latter takes them seriously.

The present moment is changing so fast that we often do not notice its existence at all. Every moment of mind is like a series of pictures passing through a projector. Some of the pictures come from sense impressions. Others come from memories of past experiences or from fantasies of the future.

If God used evolution, God came from an ape.

If we are striving, if we are working, if we are trying, to the best of our ability, to improve day by day, then we are in the line of our duty.

The Spirit communicating to your spirit is the most effective and fundamental of communications. Write it down. As you write down impressions of the Spirit, more are given.

The greatness of a man is measured by the way he treats the little man. Compassion for the weak is a sign of greatness.

Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.

Eve was not taken out of Adam's head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected by him, and near his heart to be loved by him.

I want the joy of knowing that I am doing something with my life, the joy of battle.

Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't heaven, so don't expect it to be.

Reduced to its lowest terms, the great struggle which now rocks the whole earth more and more takes on the character of a struggle of the individual versus the state.

You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.

Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right.

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

Obedience to the word in humility of mind never confuses.

I am not eloquent.

Many have puzzled themselves about the origin of evil. I am content to observe that there is evil, and that there is a way to escape from it, and with this I begin and end.

I find that to be a fool as to worldly wisdom, and to commit my cause to God, not fearing to offend men, who take offence at the simplicity of truth, is the only way to remain unmoved at the sentiments of others.

The rosary is the most powerful weapon to touch the Heart of Jesus, Our Redeemer, who loves His Mother.

Do not pray for tasks equal to your abilities, but pray for abilities equal to your tasks. Then the performance of your tasks will be no miracle, but you will be the miracle.

The city has become a serious menace to our civilization... It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant.

A home with a loving and loyal husband and wife is the supreme setting in which children can be reared in love and righteousness and in which the spiritual and physical needs of children can be met.

We ought to be living as if Jesus died yesterday, rose this morning, and is coming back this afternoon.

It is always helpful to us to fix our attention on the God-ward aspect of Christian work; to realise that the work of God does not mean so much man's work for God, as God's own work through man.

God seldom suspends the laws of nature, just as God does not remove free will to keep evil people from doing evil things.

I have sworn eternal opposition to slavery, and by the blessing of God, I will never go back.

The atheist has no hope.

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

If we have the truth, it cannot be harmed by investigation. If we have not the truth, it ought to be harmed.

I am suggesting that as we go through life, we 'accentuate the positive.' I am asking that we look a little deeper for the good, that we still our voices of insult and sarcasm, that we more generously compliment and endorse virtue and effort.

Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.

Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.

At the end of day, what matters most to God, what moves His heart, isn't our fancy words and impressive possessions - it's the condition of our hearts.

We Muslims in the West, like Jews before us, grapple with the same issues that Jews of the past did: integration or isolation, tradition or reform, intermarriage or intra-marriage.

You change your life by changing your heart.

The most important of the Lord's work you will ever do will be the work you do within the walls of your own home.

In a major matter no details are small.

Your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself.

But then one day the Lord put us together through our agent and it's been a wonderful match.

To see how Christ was prophesied and described therein, consider and mark, how that the kid or lamb must be with out spot or blemish; and so was Christ only of all mankind, in the sight of God and of his law.

Let me alone, and go in search of someone else.

Give us this day our daily taste. Restore to us soups that spoons will not sink in and sauces which are never the same twice. Raise up among us stews with more gravy than we have bread to blot it with Give us pasta with a hundred fillings.

We have taken a giant step forward in correcting some of the misconceptions people have about the church. I think that we've made a lot of friends.