Catherine Doherty Quotes

#1. To pass through the door that leads to God's kingdom, we must go down on our knees.

Catherine Doherty

#2. We do not have to wait for the hereafter - it is now that we are one with Christ.

Catherine Doherty

#3. Love ... love ... love, never counting the cost.

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#4. True silence is the speech of lovers.

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#5. Pain is the kiss of Christ.

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#6. We do not go to mission lands to 'bring Jesus Christ' as much as to uncover him where he already is.

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#7. The endless pursuit of new life styles or academic degrees and recognition is not the way to priestly happiness.

Catherine De Hueck Doherty

#8. I go to my past in order to discern the future.

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#9. Faith is contagious when we show it to one another.

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#10. Faith is fudamentally a kind of folly ...

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#11. True silence is a garden enclosed, where alone the soul can meet its God.

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#12. We need to be poor! Let us live an ordinary life, but, beloved, let us live it with a passionate love for God. Become a mystery. Stretch one hand out to God, the other to your neighbour. Be cruciform. ... Christ's cross will be our revolution and it will be a revolution of love!

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#13. With God, every moment is the moment of beginning again.

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#14. Listen to God's speech in his wondrous, terrible, gentle, loving, all-embracing silence.

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#15. A saint is a sinner who loves; it's that simple!

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#16. Preach the Gospel with your life - without compromise!

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#17. What you do matters - but not much. What you are matters tremendously.

Catherine De Hueck Doherty

#18. She who received the seed of eternal glory Now dispenses grace, the seed of glory-to-come. My womb was the chalice of the impenetration of God That became the Incarnation of God and man

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#19. Catherine de Hueck Doherty observes in The Gospel Without Compromise: The Gospel can be summed up by saying that it is the tremendous, tender, compassionate, gentle, extraordinary, explosive, revolutionary revelation of Christ's love.

Brennan Manning

#20. What binds us together is love, and only love. For love is a Person. Love is God.

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#21. Every meal should be prepared with love and eaten in peace, because its purpose is to strengthen us for the service of Love.

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#22. Acquire inner peace and a multitude will find their salvation near you.

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#23. Faith allows us to enter peacefully into the dark night which faces every one of us at one time or another.

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#24. God reveals himself to those who wait for that revelation, and who don't try to tear at the hem of a mystery, forcing disclosure.

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#25. Purity of heart is love for the weak who constantly fall.

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#26. Faith walks simply, childlike, between the darkness of human life and the hope of what is to come.

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#27. Real zeal is standing still and letting God be a bonfire in you.

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#28. Faith considers that its precariousness and its finiteness are but the womb in which it abides, moving toward the plenitude and fullness of the eternity which it desires and believes in and which revelation opens to it.

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#29. With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing.

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#30. Lord, give me the heart of a child, and the awesome courage to live it out as an adult.

Catherine Doherty