Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Priests - Page 20

The divine light which you carry within your soul is inherited from God because you are His daughter. Part of the light which makes you so magnificent is the blessing of womanhood.

He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture halls.

Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being.

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.

Communism is trying to take the world by force. But God will take the world by love.

If we can understand that death is not the end but is really a transition into the next life, the great part of life, that frees us up into receiving God's courage and his help.

Many slaves on this continent are oppressed, and their cries have reached the ears of the Most High. Such are the purity and certainty of his judgments, that he cannot be partial in our favor.

Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.

The story of Noah, like other stories in the first 11 chapters of Genesis, are archetypal. Noah's story tells us that human beings have an inherent tendency towards violence both towards their fellow human beings and towards the creation itself. The story tells us that this violence grieves God.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

All I know is that I'm a sinner and that God has forgiven me of my sins. Because I put my faith and trust in Jesus Christ.

Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.

It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.

Your faith will grow only in the measure that you give it away.

Prudence is foresight and far-sightedness. It's the ability to make immediate decisions on the basis of their longer-range effects.

Nothing is better than peace, by which all warfare of heavenly and earthly foes is brought to naught.

The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.

Let the whole world hear that we reject America. No, no to the occupier.

Abraham is such a fascinating figure. Three world religions - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - all claim him as a patriarch. He was raised in a religious home. And yet he rejected religion in order to pursue a personal relationship with God.

Hypocrites in the Church? Yes, and in the lodge and at the home. Don't hunt through the Church for a hypocrite. Go home and look in the mirror. Hypocrites? Yes. See that you make the number one less.

Happy is the soul that knows how to find Jesus in the Eucharist, and the Eucharist in all things!

You will only be remembered for two things: the problems you solve or the ones you create.

Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.

I'm the world 'Guinness Book of Records' holder of 1,749 hugs in one hour. My arms fell off.

If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.

How kind is our Sacramental Jesus! He welcomes you at any hour of the day or night. His Love never knows rest. He is always most gentle towards you. When you visit Him, He forgets your sins and speaks only of His joy, His tenderness, and His Love. By the reception He gives to you, one would think He has need of you to make Him happy.

There are powerful emotions that bring two people together in wonderful harmony in a marriage. Satan knows this, and would tempt you to try these emotions outside of marriage. Do not stir emotions meant to be used only in marriage.

Our nation is being led astray by ungodly judges, mayors and governors, who are given to change, defying the Constitution and substituting their own wicked agendas.

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

With such thoughts in your mind, now that you have resolved to love Him and please Him with all your strength, your only fear should be to fear God too much and to place too little confidence in Him.

Pastoral ministry is about an ongoing confrontation with the god of this world, with blindness, hardness of heart, remaining sin.

Even in my own church I heard the words, 'Francis Chan' more than I heard the words, 'Holy Spirit.'

Let us not suffer from a national amnesia that causes us to forget who and what we are.

The very flag of freedom that waves over our heads is formed from material cultivated by slaves, on soil moistened with their blood drawn from them by the whip of a republican taskmaster!

When the fire of prayer goes out, the barrenness of busyness takes over.

Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.

The hardest people to reach with the love of God are not the bad people. They know they are bad. They have no defense. The hardest ones to win for God are the self-righteous people.

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.

The fear tactic is a tactic that's used by people who want to maintain control, and it's very effective.

Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.

According to this way of arguing, there will be no true principles in the world; for there are none but what may be wrested and perverted to serve bad purposes, either through the weakness or wickedness of men.

It is very important for a priest, in the parish itself, to see how people trust in him and to experience, in addition to their trust, also their generosity in pardoning his weaknesses.

The rising sun can dispel the darkness of night, but it cannot banish the blackness of malice, hatred, bigotry, and selfishness from the hearts of humanity.

No, no, no, not God bless America — God damn America!

God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things.

Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be clergymen or laymen, they alone will shake the gates of Hell and set up the kingdom of Heaven upon Earth.

Noah came before the flood. I have come before the fire.

Our minds are affected by sin. Our hearts are affected by sin. Our wills are affected by sin. Our bodies are affected by sin.

Half an hour's meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.

All of the people are the dependents of Allah.

I'm pretty intentional about being highly invested in my kids' lives.

Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order.

Because of the womb being a central phenomenon in the feminine body, the whole psychology of woman differs: she is non-aggressive, non-inquiring, non-questioning, non-doubting, because all of those things are part of aggression. She will not take the initiative; she simply waits - and she can wait infinitely.

Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.

I think there's a terrible price to be paid when your exterior life is not an honest reflection of your interior life.

That's what Buddhism has been trying to unravel - the mechanism of happiness and suffering. It is a science of the mind.