Catholic Author Quotes

#1. My father could look straight ahead but concentrate on something on the very edge of his vision, almost nearly behind him.

Dale Earnhardt Jr.

#2. Most people know the sheer wonder that goes with falling in love, how not only does everything in heaven and earth become new, but the lover himself becomes new. It is literally like the sap rising in the tree, putting forth new green shoots of life.

Caryll Houselander

#3. Our party must continue to strike fear in the heart of the white man, our real enemy!

Robert Mugabe

#4. Love for our neighbours does not die the minute we enter heaven, it intensifies.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#5. It's a blessed thing to love and feel loved in return.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#6. Those who are seeking the true religion will never find it outside the Catholic Church alone, because, in every other religion, if they trace it up to the author, they will find some impostor whose imagination furnished a mass of sophisms and errors

Alphonsus Liguori

#7. It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#8. What you think is right isn't the same as knowing what is right.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#9. They said I would never live. I lived. They said I would never think. I think. They said I would never walk. I walked. They said I would never dance, but I never danced anyway.

Benedict Groeschel

#10. She didn't care to be reminded how starved she looked, but she could hardly bemoan the fact. It had lent well to her disguise. Though seventeen, she had masqueraded as a stripling lad beneath the very noses of the Yankees. Captain Latimer had not even been suspicious.

Kathleen E. Woodiwiss

#11. Confession was the emotional equivalent to puking, Riley supposed. Something bad went down, bits of it came back up, you felt better.

J. Fally

#12. The sense of the joy in anything is the sense of Christ.

Caryll Houselander

#13. Reflect carefully on this, for it is so important that I can hardly lay too much stress on it. Fix your eyes on the Crucified and nothing else will be of much importance to you.

Teresa Of Avila

#14. The author observes of the Inklings, "they make a perfect compass rose of faith: talking the Catholic, Lewis the "mere Christian," Williams the Anglican, Barfield the esotericist.

Philip Zaleski

#15. Let us pray to the Holy Spirit, who is truly the author of this unity in variety, of this harmony, that he might make us ever more "catholic" in this Church that is catholic and universal!

Pope Francis

#16. Poor God, how often He is blamed for all the suffering in the
world. It's like praising Satan for allowing all the good that happens.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#17. Heaven is not a republic.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#18. I wanted to shut my mind, that my thoughts might close
on my own peace, I wanted to close
the peace of my love in my heart
like dew in a dark rose."
From "Philip Speaks

Caryll Houselander

#19. Lifting our cup means sharing our life so we can celebrate it. When we truly believe we are called to lay down our lives for our friends, we must dare to take the risk to let others know what we are living.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#20. Powerful to alleviate, to delay, to camouflage, though money is, in the end it lets us down.

Caryll Houselander

#21. The gates of Hell are terrible to behold, are they not?

E.A. Bucchianeri

#22. The devil has not vanished simply because people refuse to believe he exists, no more than God has ...

E.A. Bucchianeri

#23. That's it. Love makes us all strong.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#24. How terrible is the pain of the mind and heart when the freedom of mankind is suppressed!

E.A. Bucchianeri

#25. There is only one misery . . . not to be saints.

Leon Bloy

#26. I believe that there are many paths to the same place, and that is a belief that there is a higher power, a belief that we are connected as a people.

Barack Obama

#27. What could there be in this document written by a young girl in 1917?

Peter J. Tanous

#28. A true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#29. Christ has come into the world to lay out a garden wherein, amid splendor and abundance, there should thrive the violet of humanity, the myrtle of mortification, the rose of love, the lily of virginal souls, the laurel of confessors and the palm of martyrs.

Fr James Groenings

#30. Christ asks for a home in your soul, where he can be at rest with you, where he can talk easily to you, where you and he, alone together, can laugh and be silent and be delighted with one another.

Caryll Houselander

#31. The gun was in Mrs. Jones's left hand. She put her right hand behind her, between my legs, then held on to my cock like it was a leash.

Eric Jerome Dickey

#32. If a man cannot serve two masters, neither can Christianity, or several thousand of them as the case may be.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#33. Love, like everything else in life, should be a discovery, an adventure, and like most adventures, you don't know you're having one until you're right in the middle of it.

E.A. Bucchianeri