THE BOOK OF CATHOLIC QUOTATIONS
John Chapin, Editor
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"Every being is good, since He who is the Creator of all being whatever is supremely good." St. Augustine, 'Enchiridion'
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"We are not constrained by servile necessity, but act with freewill." St. Ambrose, 'Concerning Jacob', (4th century)
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"Faith opens the door to understanding." St. Augustine, Letter 137, 15 (5th century)
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"Love and faith are as much realities as artistic faculties, and need similar cultivation." R. H. Benson, 'Lord of the World' (20th century)
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"Nature reveals its Author, the work suggests the Artist, and the world manifests its Designer." St. Irenaeus, 'Against the Heresies' (2nd century)
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"Do not think of the faults of others, but of what is good in them." St. Teresa of Jesus, 'Maxims' (16th century),
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"Every little spark of beauty's burning is but a fragment of the central fire." Sister M. Angelita, 'Lesser Fires' (20th century)
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"In the most noble part of the soul, the domain of our spiritual powers, we are constituted in the form of a living and eternal mirror of God; we bear in it the imprint of His eternal image and no other image can enter there." John Ruysbroeck, 'The Mirror of Eternal Salvation' (14th century)
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"The life of virtue [is] a climb from the many to the One." St. Thomas Aquinas, 'Summa Theologica' 1-2, 71, 1 (13th century)
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"The future belongs to those who love, not to those who hate." Pope Pius XII, address to the College of Cardinals, June 2, 1947
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"Man is a noble being, created to the image and likeness of God." St. Augustine, 'De Doctrina Christiana' (4th century)
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"It is not by themselves being so that humans are gods, but they become gods by participation in that one God." St. Augustine, Sermon 16, 1 (5th century)
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"God clothes himself actually and literally with His whole creation." Coventry Patmore, 'The Rod, the Root and the Flower' (19th century)
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"In order that you may know that God is one, ask What God is, and you will find Him to be not otherwise than one." Tertullian, 'Against Marcion' (3rd century)
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"'One loving soul,' says St. Augustine, 'sets another on fire.'" Arnold Lunn, 'Now I See' (20th century)
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"Charity is both the means and the end, the one and only way by which we can attain that perfection which in truth is charity itself." J. P. Camus, 'The Spirit of St. Francis deSales' (17th century)
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"That Being through Which all exist must be one….There is, then, some one Being Which alone exists in the greatest and highest degree of all." St. Anselm, 'Monologium', (11th century)
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"The greatness of the soul is her capacity for God." Archbishop Ullathorne, 'Humility and Patience' (19th century)
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"Man was by God constituted free, master of his own will and power; indicating the presence of God's image and likeness in him by nothing so well as by this constitution of his nature." Tertullian, 'Tertullian Against Marcion' (3rd century)
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"God is the cause of everything, He is one and wise." St. Thomas Aquinas, 'Commentary on 2nd Corinthians' (13th century)
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"We believe that God is present everywhere." St. Benedict, 'The Rules of St. Benedict', Rule 19 (6th century)
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"Charity brings to life again those who are spiritually dead." St. Thomas Aquinas, 'Disputations Concerning Charity', (13th century)
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"Faith is the beginning and the end is love, and God is the two of them brought into unity." St. Ignatius of Antioch, 'Letter to the Ephesians', (2nd century)
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"It is for this we are created: that we may give a new and individual expression of the absolute in our own peculiar character….Ever the mystery is revealed in each new birth; so must it be to eternity. The Eternal-Absolute is ever creating new forms of expressing Itself." Isaac T. Hecker, 19th century
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"The goodness of God knows how to use our disordered wishes and actions, often lovingly turning them to our advantage while always preserving the beauty of His order." St. Bernard of Clairvaux, 'Letters', 90,6 (12th century)
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