Love Catholic Quotes

#1. If you want a church full of Catholics who know their faith, love their faith and practice their faith, give them a liturgy that is demanding, profound and rigourous. They will rise to the challenge.

Peter Kwasniewski

#2. If we wish to serve God and love our neighbor well, we must manifest our joy in the service we render to Him and them. Let us open wide our hearts. It is joy which invites us. Press forward and fear nothing.

Katharine Drexel

#3. I try to understand faith and religion. I was raised by wonderful Catholic parents who were deeply faithful and taught us that God is a God of love.

Roxane Gay

#4. Do not be afraid, then, when love makes demands. Do not be afraid when love requires sacrifice.

Pope John Paul II

#5. Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.

John Henry Newman

#6. Thus, I repeat, anti-Semitism and anti-Judaism are spiritually destructive and stupid. In the words of Pope Pius XI: "Spiritually, we are Semites." You cannot be a good Catholic until you've fallen in love with the religion and people of Israel. WALK

Scott Hahn

#7. Without prayer, our faith is weakened, our love grows cold, our hope becomes uncertain.

Terence Cooke

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

Scott Hahn

#9. I'm a closet Catholic. I love the iconography of the saints. There was a point in my life when I was going to convert to Catholicism, but I didn't want my grandmother spinning around in her grave like a rotisserie chicken.

Lynda Resnick

#10. Giving someone shit, Rodney knew was a sign of love in Catholic families. And the same held true for Rodney and his friends. But he wished it weren't Keith's default setting, his auto-reply to everything.

Steve Rushin

#11. Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks of chastity, but the whole body reveals impurity.

St. Jerome

#12. I was Baptist and had always prayed, in a damp squint, for things not to happen. Sils was a Catholic, and so she prayed for things to happen, for things to come true. She prayed for love here and now. I prayed for no guns.

Lorrie Moore

#13. I'm Catholic and Mum taught me the comfort that you can get from going to church. But I'm an a la carte Catholic. I love all the pomp and ceremony of it.

Patsy Kensit

#14. Good Lord didn't mean for us to hate ourself. He made us to love ourself like He do, with wide open arms.

Rebecca Wells

#15. Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity.

Saint Augustine

#16. The capacity to love is determined by the fact that man is ready to seek the good consciously with others, to subordinate himself to this good because of others, or to subordinate himself to others because of this good.

Pope John Paul II

#17. We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable.

Bernard Of Clairvaux

#18. I'd never done Valentine's Day before. We didn't celebrate it in Catholic School. I understood Valentine's Day, as a concept. The naked baby shoots you with an arrow and you fall in love.

Trevor Noah

#19. All the things that are now worrying you can be put into a smile which shows your love of God.

Josemaria Escriva

#20. We throw ourselves down, as Jesus did, before the mystery of God's power present to us, knowing that the Cross is the true burning bush, the place of the flame of God's love, which burns but does not destroy.

Pope Benedict XVI

#21. Love is the Cross, and the Cross is Love.

Therese Of Lisieux

#22. I really love the traditional aspects of Judaism. My wife is born and raised a Catholic and I enjoy celebrating those rituals as well. I am very spiritual but not in any way religious, no.

Josh Gad

#23. The man of impure speech is a person whose lips are but an opening and a supply pipe which hell uses to vomit its impurities upon the earth.

John Vianney

#24. Communion with Christ gives us our strength, our joy, and our love.

Mother Teresa

#25. In the realm of evil thoughts none induces to sin as much as do thoughts that concern the pleasure of the flesh.

Thomas Aquinas

#26. We must be pure. I do not speak merely of the purity of the senses. We must observe great purity in our will, in our intentions, in all our actions.

Peter Julian Eymard

#27. We slit the Catholic throat, stoned the poor on such slogans as wish you could hear and love is all we need.

David Bowie

#28. Who provides the love and a path to reconciliation? It's not Planned Parenthood; it's the Catholic Church, the other Christian churches, and the ministries they have created.

Chris Smith

#29. Wherever the bishop shall appear, let the multitude of also be, just as wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the catholic [i.e., universal] church. It is not lawful either to baptize or to celebrate a love feast without the bishop, but whatever he approves of, that is also pleasing to God.

Ignatius Of Antioch

#30. Let us put it the other way, the Lutheran or Protestant church versus the Catholic. The Catholic is the girl that you love so much that she can lie to you, and the Protestant is the girl that loves you so much that you can lie to her, and pretend a lot that you do not feel.

Djuna Barnes

#31. I have met many Roman Catholic theologians who will emphasize as much as any good Protestant preacher that everything comes from the love and grace of God.

N. T. Wright

#32. Make us love and obey you so that the works of our hands may always display what your hands have done, until we gaze upon the beauty of your face.

The Catholic Church

#33. In the gay (Catholic) community, it would seem, the maxim is: love the sin and love the sinner, but hate anyone who calls it a sin or him a sinner.

Richard John Neuhaus

#34. By your work you show what you love and what you know.

Bruno Of Cologne

#35. Marriage is the most basic expression of the vocation to love that all men and women have as persons made in God's image.

Christopher West

#36. I'm not as Catholic as I used to be. I find that I can't believe in a God who would punish anyone for the way he made them. A God who punishes is something mankind created as a way to hurt and control one another. God isn't like that. God is better than that, better than us.

Marshall Thornton

#37. Living out one's faith is either no way to live or the only way to live; it's either imprisonment, or the only path to freedom. It offers happiness, or it frustrates the pursuit. There is no half-love, half-religion, half-worship, half-belief, half-truth. There is no kinda-sorta.

Tarek Saab

#38. My Catholic faith is my life. Any artist, if he is to be faithful to how he perceives the world and to the nature of his creative gifts, cannot divorce the two. To create is to love. To love is to create.

Michael O'Brien

#39. I never want to make a film. I don't wake up in the morning going, 'Ooh, I'd really love to be on set making a film today'. I'm aware that other contemporary film directors perceive film-making as what they do, as what they have to do. But I would hope that I am more catholic in my tastes.

Stephen Daldry

#40. Faith is what gets you started. Hope is what keeps you going. Love is what brings you to the end.

Mother Angelica

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

Jason Evert

#42. Only by having a sense of history's trajectory (even if one does not believe in Parousia) can one love earthly reality and believe - with charity - that there is still room for Hope.

Umberto Eco

#43. Feelings come to us, passively; love comes from us, actively, by our free choice.

Peter Kreeft

#44. I believe in one Gnostic and Catholic Church of Light, Life, Love and Liberty, the Word of whose Law is THELEMA .

Aleister Crowley

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

Jason Evert

#46. Some psychologists argue that the idea of God is a response to our emotional needs, but this presumption is backwards. Our emotional fluctuations are a psychological response to our lack of love for God. If God is everything, what else could we possibily want?

Tarek Saab

#47. Let us thank all those who teach in Catholic schools. Educating is an act of love; it is like giving life.

Pope Francis

#48. I wish we had more visible Christian and Catholic leaders who talked about love.

Anne Rice

#49. I believe in the curative powers of love as the English believe in tea or Catholics believe in the Miracle of Lourdes.

Joyce Johnson

#50. The faith of those who live their faith is a serene faith. What you long for will be given you; what you love will be yours for ever.

Pope Leo I

#51. Remember that nothing is small in the eyes of God. Do all that you do with love.

Therese Of Lisieux

#52. If God is not a Trinity, God is not love. For love requires three things: a lover, a beloved, and a relationship between them.

Peter Kreeft

#53. I held the Host with two fingers and thought: How small Jesus made Himself, in order to show us that He doesn't expect great things of us, but rather little things with great love.

Mother Teresa

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

E.A. Bucchianeri

#55. Catholics Come Home inspires each of us to share God's love with others, in order to help change the world for the better, for eternity!

Roma Downey

#56. Marriage is a living sign that truly communicates the love of Christ and the Church.

Christopher West

#57. 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

#58. One of the problems with the identification of Christianity with love is how such a view turns out to be both anti-Semitic and anti-Catholic. The Jews and Catholics become identified with the law or dogma, in contrast to Protestant Christians, who are about love.

Stanley Hauerwas

#59. For everyone, whatever his state
single, married, widowed, or priest-chastity is a triumphant affirmation of love.

Josemaria Escriva

#60. Love actually is a great act of the will. It's when I say, "I desire your good, not for my sake but for yours". To love is to break out of the black hole of the ego and say, "My life is about you".

Bishop Robert Barron

#61. God bestows more consideration on the purity of the intention with which our actions are performed than on the actions themselves.

Saint Augustine

#62. Filthy talk makes us feel comfortable with filthy action. But the one who knows how to control the tongue is prepared to resist the attacks of lust

Pope Clement I

#63. The worst possible sexual education: a taboo imposed by the Catholic church plus romantic literature elevating love to unreal heights plus the obscene language of my peers. After all, I was nearly born in the nineteenth century, and I have no tender feelings for it.

Czeslaw Milosz

#64. I was raised Irish Catholic and went to Holy Names Academy, an all-girl's private Catholic school. I loved the nuns there and I love them to this day.

Kitty Kelley

#65. You carry your snare everywhere and spread your nets in all places. You allege that you never invited others to sin. You did not indeed, by your words, but you have done so by your dress and your deportment.

Saint John Chrysostom

#66. Growing up, I had a front row seat to seeing two people work really hard. My dad scrubbed toilets at a private Catholic school for a while, and that was to help me get through school.

Mia Love

#67. By our actions we tell Him of our love.

Elizabeth Of The Trinity

#68. 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

#69. I am simply content to find myself always imperfect, and in this I find my joy. Good deeds count as nothing, if done without love.

Therese Of Lisieux

#70. Love our Lady. And she will obtain abundant grace to help you conquer in your daily struggle.

Josemaria Escriva

#71. Most of us know that our heart is our center, not our head. But apologetics gets at the heart through the head. The head is important precisely because it is a gate to the heart. We can love only what we know.

Peter Kreeft

#72. 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

#73. When God laughs at the soul and the soul laughs back at God, the persons of the Trinity are begotten. When the Father laughs at the Son and the Son laughs back at the Father, that laughter gives pleasure, that pleasure gives joy, that joy gives love, and that love is the Holy Spirit.

Meister Eckhart

#74. I'd love to go and visit the Mosque in Mecca again, just for the sheer beauty of it, not for God - much the way a non-Catholic might go to Vatican City because of the beauty of the buildings and the artifacts.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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

E.A. Bucchianeri

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

E.A. Bucchianeri

#77. Every time I think about that girl, my mind commits a sin.

Jake Vander Ark

#78. Most talk of a catholic spirit but it is only till they have been brought into the pale of their own church. This is downright sectarianism, not Catholicism. How can I act consistently, unless I receive and love all the children of God, whom I esteem to be such, of whatever denomination they may be?

George Whitefield

#79. God is Love. We eventually have to ask ourselves the question; why was Love nailed to a cross?

Pope John Paul II

#80. Creation exists to be a place for the covenant that God wants to make with man. The goal of creation is the covenant, the love story of God and man.

Pope Benedict XVI

#81. The drag queen walks into a Catholic church as the priest is coming down the aisle swinging the incense pot. And he says to the priest, Oh, honey, I love your dress, but did you know your handbag's on fire?

Garrison Keillor

#82. It's the living, the eating, the sleeping that everyone needs. Ideas don't matter so much after all. My three best friends are Catholic. I can't see their beliefs, but I can see the things they love to do on earth. When you come right down to it, I do believe in the freedom of the individual ...

Sylvia Plath

#83. 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

#84. Yet, til now, her discipline had less to do with her strict Catholic upbringing than the fact that she hadn't met anybody who had aroused her to the point where she felt it was worth risking purgatory.

Cynthia Freeman

#85. Then, overcome by joy, I cried, 'Jesus, my love. At last I have found my vocation. My vocation is love. In the heart of the Church, my mother, I will be love, and then I will be all things.

Therese De Lisieux

#86. I'm not Catholic, I'm not Orthodox and I wouldn't even say Rastafarian, that still divides people, I don't want to divide people so anything that I say is something that must be so big and great that it did encompass everyone and it's love.

Ziggy Marley

#87. I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament ...

J.R.R. Tolkien

#88. You cannot be in love with love.

Peter Kreeft

#89. Everything we see in a Catholic church is there for a single purpose: to tell a love story.

Donald Wuerl

#90. Only the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of true love.

Pope John Paul II

#91. Never refuse any who ask you for help; if your pockets are empty, give them hope. Your every action must be born of kindness, your every word spoken with love. Live as God would have you live, and others will be inspired to do the same.

Immaculee Ilibagiza

#92. Faith in action is love, and love in action is service. By transforming that faith into living acts of love, we put ourselves in contact with God Himself, with Jesus our Lord.

Mother Teresa

#93. I was raised Catholic ... I fell in love with certain ideals.

Jon Voight

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

E.A. Bucchianeri

#95. I'm a Catholic, but I used to love going to Vacation Bible School with my fundamentalist friends.

Paul Begala

#96. And it struck me then, that I liked Sean because he looked, well, slutty. A boy who had been around. A boy who couldn't remember if he was Catholic or not.

Bret Easton Ellis

#97. The way to begin healing the wounds of the world is to treasure the Infant Christ in us; to be not the castle but the cradle of Christ; and, in rocking that cradle to the rhythm of love, to swing the whole world back into the beat of the Music of Eternal Life.

Caryll Houselander