Mother Angelica
Nun, Television Personality
"Faith is what gets you started. Hope is what keeps you going. Love is what brings you to the end."
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Saint Augustine
Theologian, Philosopher
"Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow."
Saint Francis de Sales
Saint, Bishop
"Do everything calmly and peacefully. Do as much as you can as well as you can. Strive to see God in all things without exception, and consent to His will joyously. Do everything for God, uniting yourself to him in word and deed. Walk very simply with the Cross of the Lord and be at peace with yourself."
Teresa of Avila
Saint, Mystic, Writer
"We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials."
Oscar Romero
Archbishop, Activist
"God is not satisfied with appearance. God wants the garment of justice. God wants his Christians dressed in love."
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"It is impossible for us not to speak about what we have seen and heard."
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"People who love each other fully and truly are the happiest people in the world. They may have little, they may have nothing, but they are happy people. Everything depends on how we love one another."
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"If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way."
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"The celebration of Holy Mass is as valuable as the death of Jesus on the cross."
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"Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities."
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"To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them."
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"Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment."
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"To sing is to pray twice."
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"To love God is something greater than to know Him."
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"Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand."
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"Neutrinos have mass? i didn't even know they're Catholic!" Robert to Vittoria"
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"Every morning prepare your soul for a tranquil day."
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"I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics."
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"Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you."
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"Believing is an act of the intellect assenting to the divine truth by command of the will moved by God through grace."
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"Be gentle to all and stern with yourself."
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"Grace flows through wounds."
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"Power isn't having the world at your fingertips; it is having the world at your fingertips and being able to give it up!"
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"Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important."
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"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."
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