Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Priests - Page 4

If you look hard enough, you'll find something good about me and say it.

America is still the No. 1 killer in the world.

As long as I am an American citizen, and as long as American blood runs in these veins, I shall hold myself at liberty to speak, to write, and to publish whatever I please on any subject, being amenable to the laws of my country for the same.

If there is any one message the Bible delivers, it is the message that God loves outcasts and that Jesus was born into the world an outcast to rescue and renew outcasts from religion gone bad. He was born poor and died poor, yet the legacy of love he left us, the legacy of inclusion and acceptance and understanding, will endure forever.

But the poor person does not exist as an inescapable fact of destiny. His or her existence is not politically neutral, and it is not ethically innocent. The poor are a by-product of the system in which we live and for which we are responsible. They are marginalized by our social and cultural world. They are the oppressed, exploited proletariat, robbed of the fruit of their labor and despoiled of their humanity. Hence the poverty of the poor is not a call to generous relief action, but a demand that we go and build a different social order.

I can't see for the life of me how an attempt to understand the universe, which I believe comes from God, can alienate us from God.

The more the diamond is cut the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, there God has no end in view but to perfect His people.

Peace is the first thing the angels sang.

When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God.

Judas heard all Christ's sermons.

Those who tread among serpents, and along a tortuous path, must use the cunning of the serpent.

No trait is more justified than revenge in the right time and place.

If any come to my house to be instructed in the ways of God what rule have I to put them away? Do you think it not lawful for me to teach women and why do you call me to teach the court?

We never give more honour to Jesus than when we honour his Mother, and we honour her simply and solely to honour him all the more perfectly. We go to her only as a way leading to the goal we seek - Jesus, her Son.

Then they came for me - and there was no one left to speak out for me.

The democratic and pedestrian character of the new Mass itself seems to invite the ditties that pass for hymns these days.

Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed, speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word, think a kind thought. Count up, if you can, the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week, in a year, in a lifetime!

The time is coming when the pressure of population on the means of subsistence will be felt here as it is now felt in Europe and Asia. Then will the world enter upon a new stage of its history - the final competition of races, for which the Anglo-Saxon is being schooled.

It is even more damaging for a minister to say foolish things than to do them.

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.

Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.

Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.

Prayer is our invitation to God to intervene in the affairs of earth. It is our request for Him to work His ways in this world.

Ask those who love Him with a sincere love, and they will tell you that they find no greater or prompter relief amid the troubles of their life than in loving conversation with their Divine Friend.

Every human interaction offers you the chance to make things better or to make things worse.

The holiness of God is like a white light: pure, simple, complete. But when that light shines, as it were, through the prisms of individual human lives, it breaks into an infinite variety of colors... each one reveals a unique dimension of the divine holiness.

One of the greatest attacks of the enemy is to make you busy, to make you hurried, to make you noisy, to make you distracted, to fill the people of God and the Church of God with so much noise and activity that there is no room for prayer. There is no room for being alone with God. There is no room for silence. There is no room for meditation.

The death penalty confronts us with a penetrating moral question: Can even the monstrous crimes of those who are condemned to death and are truly guilty of such crimes erase their sacred dignity as human beings and their intrinsic right to life?

God is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God, but God will bless any nation whose people seek and honor His will as revealed by Christ and declared through the Holy Spirit.

Gwen and I have four children and ten grandchildren.

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.

I'm tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It is the only disease I know of that we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to spread.

The time of business does not differ with me from the time of prayer; and in the noise and clatter of my kitchen, while several persons are at the same time calling for different things, I possess God in as great tranquility as if I were on my knees.

We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.

I am gay. I am proud. And God loves me without reservation.

Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure.

Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.

There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.

God of peace, bring your peace to our violent world: peace in the hearts of all men and women and peace among the nations of the Earth.

Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Leopards, cobras, monkeys, rivers and trees; they all served as my teachers when I lived as a wanderer in the Himalayan foothills.

A democracy is predicated on an educated citizenry. You cannot have a democracy with people that are more interested in what Nicole Kidman is doing or whoever the latest fashion model is.

I could be wrong about salvation. I could be wrong about a lot of things.

You are a little god on earth running around.

Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.

We cannot always control everything that happens to us in this life, but we can control how we respond. Many struggles come as problems and pressures that sometimes cause pain. Others come as temptations, trials, and tribulations.

Does the prospect of seeing the Great Commission of Christ fulfilled drive you day and night? If not, then I pray that the story of my life will light a fire in you. A fire that will change everything. A holy fire that will convince you that nothing is impossible with God.

Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.

The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts.

How did Abraham know that it was God that bid him offer his son, being a breach of the sixth commandment?

The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the day of his death. He is not meant to live a life of religious ease, indolence and security. He must never imagine for a moment that he can sleep and doze along the way to heaven, like one traveling in an easy carriage.

Without the way, there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living.

When the heart is pure and simple it cannot help loving, because it has discovered the source of love which is God.

The Reformation did not directly touch the question of the true character of God's church.

The sign of the cross is the most terrible weapon against the devil. Thus the Church wishes not only that we have it continually in front of our minds to recall to us just what our souls are worth and what they cost Jesus Christ, but also that we should make it at every juncture ourselves: when we go to bed, when we awaken during the night, when we get up, when we begin any action, and, above all, when we are tempted.

In my experience, psychotherapy at its best is like dual meditation - it's like a container in which you can be compassionate and mindful toward yourself.

Guys that preach verse-by-verse through books of the Bible - that is just cheating. It's cheating because that would be easy, first of all. That isn't how you grow people. No one in the Scripture modeled that.

Do your duty, that is best; leave unto the Lord the rest.

There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way.