Catholic Inspirational Quotes

#1. Why do people do this?'
'Blog, you mean? I don't know ... didn't someone once say the unexamined life isn't worth living?'
'Yeah, Plato,' said Strike, 'but this isn't examining a life, it's exhibiting it.

Robert Galbraith

#2. Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

Bob Marley

#3. The world of atheism was cracking apart for me, just as once the world of Catholic faith had cracked apart. I was losing my faith in the nonexistence of God.

Anne Rice

#4. I didn't think of being an artist until after I went away to boarding school. There were other things to be interested in. And it seemed like a nightmare.

Elizabeth Neel

#5. Life never seems to prepare us sufficiently for epiphanies. ... they are not magical intrusions from another world, but reality, naked, and without shame.

Monks Of New Skete

#6. If she were Catholic, she could kneel, kneel and bow her head inside a church with brilliant stained-glass windows and streaks of golden light falling over her. Yes, oh yes, she would kneel and stretch out her arms, holding to her Amy and Dottie and Bev.

Elizabeth Strout

#7. 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

#8. Love is something worth suffering for...

Scott Hahn

#9. If you complain to someone, you assume that it's someone who really cares about you.

Scott Hahn

#10. [God] disciplines us for our good, that we may share His holiness.

Scott Hahn

#11. All my life I was fascinated by memory," Squire told me. "Then I met E.P., and saw how rich life can be even if you can't remember it. The brain has this amazing ability to find happiness even when the memories of it are gone.

Charles Duhigg

#12. God withholds Himself from no one who perseveres.

Teresa Of Avila

#13. You will not lift the veil of my body until you lift the veil over my face.

Jason Evert

#14. When I was very young, I used to share much of what I wrote with my family, but as I got older and more self-conscious, it became a much more private process.

Anita Desai

#15. Girls ... only lift the veil over your body to the spouse who is worthy to see the glory of that unveiled mystery.

Jason Evert

#16. Associational logic," a muscle rarely worked by prose: its "occlusion, or difficulty," she wrote, "healing me, forcing me to privilege my heart, my intuition.

Anonymous

#17. The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.

Rupert Murdoch

#18. As an actress I just want to tell beautiful stories.

Marion Cotillard

#19. It did matter to get out of bed. There were webs to weave. Strings to grasp. Packages to deliver. Conversations to start. Thoughts to be expressed. Sams to slam into. Oceans to swim. And sad little men hiding in electrical sockets, waiting to be born of the human imagination.

Bud Macfarlane Jr.

#20. Let us sing as we go. May our struggles and our concern for this planet never take away the joy of our hope.

Pope Francis

#21. At the root of all misery is unfulfilled desire.

Scott Hahn

#22. There's something about patience that God deems necessary for our life in the age to come and so, whether through agriculture or discipleship or bodily development or eschatology or procreation, God makes us wait

Russell D. Moore

#23. Prayer is the key that opens heaven; the favors we ask descend upon us the very instant our prayers ascend to God.

Augustine Of Hippo

#24. I think I believe a little bit in the power of people to really cast a bad energy on you if they want to. If the bad mojo wants to come your way, look out.

Dileep Rao

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

E.A. Bucchianeri

#26. It wasn't till they were on the bridge that Delly asked RB, "So, Ferris Boyd's your favorite?" She didn't mind, mostly.
RB answered so fast, though, she knew he wasn't fibbing. "She's my favorite friend," he told her. "You're my favorite everything.

Katherine Hannigan

#27. Making one object, in outward or inward nature, more holy to a single heart is reward enough for a life; for the more sympathies we gain or awaken for what is beautiful, by so much deeper will be our sympathy for that which is most beautiful,
the human soul!

James Russell Lowell

#28. The wish to pray is a prayer in itself.

Georges Bernanos

#29. The hagaddah came to Sarajevo for a reason. It was here to test us, to see if there were people who could see that what united us was more than what divided us. That to be a human being matters more than to be a Jew or a Muslim, Catholic or Orthodox. p. 361

Geraldine Brooks

#30. 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

#31. Collaborate, don't dictate. Every department head has something to offer. Listen and gratefully accept their offerings. They're moviemakers, too.

George A. Romero

#32. 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 Day

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

E.A. Bucchianeri

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

E.A. Bucchianeri