The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?
Dorothy DayTags: inspirational revolution catholic
There must be must be a first mover existing above all – and this we call God.
Thomas AquinasTags: god catholicism catholic
Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life.
Mother TeresaTags: faith catholic mother-teresa
The road must be trod, but it will be very hard. And neither strength nor wisdom will carry us far upon it. This quest may be attempted by the weak with as much hope as the strong. Yet it is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: Small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.
J.R.R. TolkienTags: humility perseverance catholicism catholic lord-of-the-rings
Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
Fulton J. SheenTags: humor simile religion confession catholicism catholic
There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.
Fulton J. SheenTags: united-states catholicism catholic united-states-of-america
Some people, in order to discover God, read books. But there is a great book: the very appearance of created things. Look above you! Look below you! Read it. God, whom you want to discover, never wrote that book with ink. Instead, He set before your eyes the things that He had made. Can you ask for a louder voice than that?
Augustine of HippoTags: science catholicism catholic catholic-author
The State which would provide everything, absorbing everything into itself, would ultimately become a mere bureaucracy incapable of guaranteeing the very thing which the suffering person—every person—needs: namely, loving personal concern. We do not need a State which regulates and controls everything, but a State which, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity, generously acknowledges and supports initiatives arising from the different social forces and combines spontaneity with closeness to those in need. The Church is one of those living forces.
Pope Benedict XVITags: politics state catholic pope
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about.
G.K. ChestertonTags: politics religion catholic tradition
How shall a man judge what to do in such times?'
'As he has ever judged,' said Aragorn. 'Good and ill have not changed since yesteryear; nor are they one thing among Elves and Dwarves and another among Men. It is a man's part to discern them, as much in the Golden Wood as in his own house.
Tags: catholicism catholic lord-of-the-rings catholic-spirituality
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