THE BOOK OF CATHOLIC QUOTATIONS
John Chapin, Editor
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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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"The Deity is one." St. John of Damascus, 'Exposition of the Orthodox Faith', (8th century)
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"Man is an epitome of the world; he is a little world in himself, in which all that is to be found in the great world of the universe is to be found." St. Francis deSales, 'Spiritual Conferences' (17th 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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"Humility, obedience, simplicity – these are the virtues on which the divine friendship, as well as human friendships, alone can thrive." R. H. Benson, 'Christ in the Church' (20th century)
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"All human beings, without any exception whatever, were specially made, were shaped and pointed like shining arrows, for the end of hitting the mark of beatitude." G. K. Chesterton, 'The Thing' (20th 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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"Humanity is the one name belonging to every nation on earth; there is one soul and many tongues, one spirit and many sounds; every country has its own speech, but the subjects of speech are common to all." Tertullian, 'The Testimony of the Christian Soul' (3rd century)
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"Human nature is in all ages and in all countries the same." Cardinal Newman, 'Idea of a University' (19th century)
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"The universe..is a masterpiece of divine Providence." St. Thomas Aquinas, 'Contra Gentiles', 3, 77 (13th century)
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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 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 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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"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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"Nature is the art of God eternal." Dante, 'De monarchia' (14th 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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"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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"Virtue is a gift from God implanted in our nature." St. John of Damascus, 'Exposition of the Orthodox Faith' (8th century)
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"God Who made things is more nigh to us than are those many things which He has made." St. Augustine (5th century)
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"To love is to wish the other's highest good." R. H. Benson, 'Come Rack! Come Rope!' (20th 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 perfect ideal is the synoptic vision of all reality as included within the divine Love, and therefore most lovable in itself. And it is this ideal which is at the back of progress and civilization." M. C. D'Arcy, 'The Idea of God' (20th century)
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"Regard the providence of God in the contraditions which are offered to you, for God permits them in order to unite you to Himself." St. Francis deSales, 'Letters to Persons in Religion', (17th 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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"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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