Top 25 Catholic Moment Quotes
#1. My hope that the Church will emerge as a strong leader in society is just that a hope. What I described in The Catholic Moment is not a prophecy but the outline of a possibility. There are no guarantees that my hopes expressed in The Catholic Moment will ever be realised.
Richard John Neuhaus
#2. But I remember the moment when my father died. I wasn't a very committed Catholic beforehand, but when that happened it suddenly all felt so obvious: I now believe religion is our attempt to find an explanation, for us to feel more protected.
Javier Bardem
#3. I'm surprised you holy people talk to me," Wolfie said suddenly, "after what I done." He swayed there a moment, frowning. "As a Catholic priest, I must accept men's frailty. And as a European I am too old and tired to expend emotion upon matters I can do nothing about.
Peter Matthiessen
#4. The Catholic priest, from the moment he becomes a priest, is a sworn officer of the pope.
Otto Von Bismarck
#5. The facts tell us that no religious Faith releases - or ever has released at any moment in History - a higher degree of warmth, a more intense dynamism of unification than the Christianity of our own day - and the more Catholic it is, the truer my words.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#6. My main job is to remain connected to God. When my primary focus is being present with him, everything else has a way of falling into place.
John Ortberg
#7. Thelonius Monk went over to Bird and Bud Powell and said, 'I told you guys to act crazy, but I didn't tell you to fall in love with the act. You're really crazy now.'
Charles Mingus
#8. There is no dearth of charity in the world in giving, but there is comparatively little exercised in thinking and speaking.
Philip Sidney
#9. This is the same notion - Catholic exorcism, psychotherapy, shamanistic practices - getting to the moment when whatever it was gained access. And also to the name of the spirit. Just to know that it's the Ugly Spirit. That's a great step. Because the spirit doesn't want its name to be known.
Allen Ginsberg
#11. You need help, and that's what books are for.
Kami Garcia
#12. Beyond our grasp, He chose to come within our grasp. Existing before time began, He began to exist at a moment in time.
Pope Leo I
#13. You can have talent and strength, but the most important is determination.
Lyoto Machida
#14. John Lennon once said that whenever he had an idea, he'd scribble it on a piece of paper and throw it in a drawer. When the drawer was full, he knew it was time for a new album.
Claire Cook
#15. Precisely in an age when the inviolable rights of the person are solemnly proclaimed and the value of life is publicly affirmed, the very right to life is being denied or trampled upon, especially at the more significant moments of existence: the moment of birth and the moment of death.
Pope John Paul II
#16. The arts are the best Time Machine we have." C. S. Lewis
Philip Zaleski
#17. It is as if families on the run are shattered by something other than just grenades. The flight and fear tears us apart and those parts land in all kinds of places - we don't even know where. But we always try to find them afterwards.
Henning Mankell
#18. I swallowed. "Mum, you're not going to get divorced, are you?" Her eyes shot open. "Divorced? I'm a good Catholic girl, Louisa. We don't divorce. We just make our men suffer for all eternity." She waited just for a moment, and then she started to laugh.
Jojo Moyes
#19. Zeal for the glory of King Jesus was the seal and mark of all genuine Christians. Because of their dependence upon Christ's love they dared much, and because of their love to Christ they did much, and it is the same now.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#20. Bryan Fogarty could skate faster, shoot harder and pass crisper drunk than the rest of us could sober.
Mats Sundin
#21. We must be faithful to the present moment or we will frustrate the plan of God for our lives.
Solanus Casey
#22. I believe that were it not for the Holy Mass, as of this moment the world would be in the abyss.
Leonard Of Port Maurice
#23. Everyone feels like they can hide behind a mask or a costume, but in the morning, they still wake up as the person beneath the mask.
Kandi Steiner
#24. I was raised in a Catholic household and went to a Catholic school, and my childhood brain perceived medieval Catholicism as an action movie: There's this crazy omnipresent guy who can destroy you at any moment.
Grimes
#25. Dragons are a manifestation of things we fear. More often than not, those fears prove to be just as daunting and just as imaginary.
Richelle E. Goodrich
