"The difficulty of explaining ‘why I am a Catholic’ is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true."
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"I would not believe in the Gospel, if the authority of the Catholic Church did not bid me to do so."
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"When table utensils were invented in the 1100s, the Catholic Church condemned them as obscene and heretical, claiming, 'God gave us fingers with which to eat.' And we're supposed to get politically discouraged? Oh please. We're being opposed by people who denounced the fork."
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"Catholic, which I was until I reached the age of reason"
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"I am Albanian by birth. Now I am a citizen of India. I am also a Catholic nun. In my work, I belong to the whole world. But in my heart, I belong to Christ."
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"Keep the joy of loving God in your heart and share this joy with all you meet especially your family. Be holy let us pray."
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"Marriage is the most basic expression of the vocation to love that all men and women have as persons made in God's image."
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"Photons have mass? I didn’t even know they were Catholic."
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"For where I found Truth, there found I my God, the Truth itself; which since I learnt, I have not forgotten."
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"Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions."
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"Beyond our grasp, He chose to come within our grasp. Existing before time began, He began to exist at a moment in time."
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"I was an altar boy in the Roman Catholic Church and no priest ever laid a hand on me. That's me, always the bridesmaid."
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"Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked."
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"For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God."
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"Action is the stream, and contemplation is the spring."
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"The Catholic priest, from the moment he becomes a priest, is a sworn officer of the pope."
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"True humility scarcely ever utters words of humility."
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"To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience."
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"I'm not a beatnik. I'm a Catholic."
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"If you were Catholic, you'd singe the ears of the priest you confessed to."
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