Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Priests - Page 3

We should always look upon ourselves as God's servants, placed in God's world, to do his work; and accordingly labour faithfully for him; not with a design to grow rich and great, but to glorify God, and do all the good we possibly can.

True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.

I wish to be a martyr, and I don't fear death.

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.

The most important message that I can give to you and to all the world is to keep the commandments of God.

If you accept the belief that baptism incorporates us in the mystical body of Christ, into the divine DNA, then you might say that the Holy Spirit is present in each of us, and thus we have the capacity for the fullness of redemption, of transformation.

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.

Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor.

Better to be a strong man with a weak point, than to be a weak man without a strong point. A diamond with a flaw is more valuable that a brick without a flaw.

I am proud to offer my endorsement of Donald J. Trump for President of the United States. He is a successful executive and entrepreneur, a wonderful father, and a man who I believe can lead our country to greatness again.

Smile, it's free therapy.

Even though we are deceived, still believe. Though we are betrayed, still forgive. Love completely even those who hate you.

The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

The Eucharist is the supreme proof of the love of Jesus. After this, there is nothing more but Heaven itself

What you believe about who you are, where you came from, affects your whole worldview.

Older women are like aging strudels - the crust may not be so lovely, but the filling has come at last into its own.

Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints - they are your public.

A society that is all self-interest and no comradeship is not a society at all. But a society that is all comradeship and no self-interest is also not a society; it is a sect - or, on the largest scale, totalitarianism.

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

Old friends die on you, and they're irreplaceable. You become dependent.

You and I can profit by asking ourselves: What do I see when I look through the lens of my attitude toward myself? Am I more a critic than a friend? Do I look beyond the surface blemishes to find the truly beautiful and unique person that I am? Or do I play the destructive "comparison game"? What verdict does the juror of my mind pass on me: "good at heart" or "guilty on all counts"?

You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens and crowned with the stars.

May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.

I'd like to die with my boots on.

Over the years, I have studied church history as well as the contemporary church, and I noticed how rare it is for a God-glorifying transition of leadership to take place in a local church.

Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.

Why did the earthquake and tsunami occur in Japan? Was it the act of an angry God? No, it was the result of the movement and collision of the earth's tectonic plates - a process driven by the earth's need to regulate its own internal temperature. Without the process that creates earthquake, our planet could not sustain life.

But to us, probability is the very guide of life.

Life is not always easy to live, but the opportunity to do so is a blessing beyond comprehension. In the process of living, we will face struggles, many of which will cause us to suffer and to experience pain.

Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, And looks to God alone; Laughs at impossibilities, And cries it shall be done.

A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood, human blood, and if our liberties are lost, we shall never regain them except at the price of blood. They must not be lost.

Mindfulness helps us freeze the frame so that we can become aware of our sensations and experiences as they are, without the distorting coloration of socially conditioned responses or habitual reactions.

Education is the strongest weapon available for restricting the questions people ask, controlling what they think, and ensuring that they get their thoughts 'from above'.

The presence of the Holy Spirit is the keystone of all our hopes.

The future is as bright as the promises of God.

Courage, my friends; 'tis not too late to build a better world.

Love is not a sentiment or feeling. Love is actively willing the good of the other.

When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.

We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that this intellect, freed from all material chains, shall rise and shine.

Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give - pleasure, possessions, power - but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.

I perceived how that it was impossible to establish the lay people in any truth except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother tongue.

Your Heavenly Father will help you find the right path as you seek His guidance. Remember though, after you pray you must get off your knees and start doing something positive; head in the right direction! He will send people along the way who will assist you, but you must be doing your part as well.

When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.

A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.

I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion.

If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.

What makes you a Christian is whether or not you really are in accord with biblical theology and whether you know Jesus Christ as your Saviour.

See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil... I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life.

It is our happiness to live under the government of a PRINCE who is satisfied with ruling according to law; as every other good prince will - We enjoy under his administration all the liberty that is proper and expedient for us.

Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.

A man with God is always in the majority.

I believe with all my heart that the Church of Jesus Christ should be a Church of blurred edges.

Anti-Semitism is not just a problem for Jews; it is a problem for all of our society.

The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.

I believe that his death and resurrection transformed humanity's relationship with God.

The Bible is the fountain of truth.