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Lack of prayer is the cause of lack of time.

Leave it to the Catholics to destroy existence.

Lent stimulates us to let the Word of God penetrate our life and in this way to know the fundamental truth: who we are, where we come from, where we must go, what path we must take in life.

Let everyone who has the grace of intelligence fear that, because of it, he will be judged more heavily if he is negligent.

Let no Christian therefore, whether philosopher or theologian, embrace eagerly and lightly whatever novelty happens to be thought up from day to day, but rather let him weigh it with painstaking care and a balanced judgment, lest he lose or corrupt the truth he already has, with grave danger and damage to his faith.

Let us be very sincere in our dealings with each other, and have the courage to accept each other as we are. Do not be surprised or become preoccupied at each other's failures - rather, see and find in each other the good, for each one of us is created in the image of God.

Let us pray for the Catholic Church; for the Churches throughout the whole world; that is, for their truth, unity, and stability; that in all charity may flourish, and truth may live. For our own Church, that what is lacking in it may be supplied; what is unsound, corrected; that all Heresies, Schisms, Scandals, as well public as private, may be removed. Correct the wandering, convert the unbelieving, increase the faith of the Church, destroy Heresies, discover the crafty enemies, crush the violent.

Let us remember Paul VI's words: "For the Catholic Church, no one is a stranger, no one is excluded, no one is far away" (Homily for the closing of the Second Vatican Council, 8 December 1965). Indeed, we are a single human family that is journeying on toward unity, making the most of solidarity and dialogue among peoples in the multiplicity of differences.

Let us return from that Table like lions breathing out fire, terrifying to the devil!

Let your modesty be a sufficient incitement, yea, an exhortation to everyone to be at peace on their merely looking at you.

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Life with Christ is a wonderful adventure.

Like all valuable commodities, truth is often counterfeited.

Like many Catholics, I was very affected by the personality of Jesus and that impression, pious as it was, has stayed with me.

Like most Catholic boys, I wanted to be Jesus Christ. I could never get the turn-the-other-cheek thing down, though.

Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity.

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.

Love endures everything, love is stronger than death, love fears nothing.

Love God, serve God; everything is in that.

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

Look out sinners because if you do not go to confession, confession will come to you. The Catholic Church in northern England has launched a mobile confession unit called the Mercy Bus.

Love of Christ does not distract us from interest in others, but rather invites us to responsibility for them, to the exclusion of no one….

Loyal and substansial Catholic service on the battlefield undermined one of the most longstanding objections to emancipation: namely, that since Catholics owed religious allegiance to a foreign authority in the person of the Pope, their political and patriotic allegiance must necessarily be suspect.

Many who confess their venial sins out of custom and concern for order but without thought of amendment remain burdened with them for their whole life and thus lose many spiritual benefits and advantages.

Man's life comes from God: it is his image and imprint, as sharing in his breath of life. God therefore is the sole Lord of this life: Man cannot do with it as he wills.

Many trees have died so that the Catholic Church can preach against homosexuality.

Marital love is a reflection of how God loves. It is free, total, faithful and fruitful.

Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.

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

Mom was always doing something for somebody. She came from a Czech background, one that made her a devout Catholic and gave her a strong belief in the family.

May all Christians be found worthy of either the pure white crown of a holy life or the royal red crown of martyrdom.

May we never risk the life of our souls by being resentful or by bearing grudges.

Most readers will be shocked by the clear record of history linking Adolf Hitler and the Roman Catholic Church in a conspiracy to exterminate the Jews

Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.

MRA is the good road of an ideology inspired by God upon which all can unite. Catholic, Jew and Protestant, Hindu, Muslim, Buddhist and Confucianist - all find they can change, where needed, and travel along this good road together.

Moving from unbelief, to Evangelicalism, and finally home to the Catholic Church, Professor Holly Ordway reveals how a gifted mind, longing for transcendence, can only appropriate it if it is wholly given by the reach and power of God's grace.

My dad was a Buddhist when I was young. So, at a point when I begging become Catholic he was saying "no" and imparting Buddhist precepts.

Muslims want the whole world to be Muslim. Christians want the whole world to be Christian. Catholics, Protestants, Mormons. They're all the same. Far out, right? Everyone wants the world to be like them.

My ancestors were all Freethinkers, formerly Catholics. It was science and Darwin, in particular, that made them decide, as educated people, which they were, that the priest, nice as he was, didn't know what he was talking about.

My dad was such a bigot. He was a horrible, self-centred person. He was really racist and he'd talk about the Jews and blacks and Catholics even.

My home base - pop music and the Catholic Church.

My family is Jewish, Buddhist, Baptist and Catholic. I don't believe in man-made religions.

My grandfather was Catholic; my grandmother, Jewish. Crossing over from Bavaria, as immigrants to the United States, the ship started to sink. My grandmother jumped overboard. My grandfather followed, to save this girl he had never met.

My husband is a fall-away Catholic, but with a vengeance. He's actually more of a feminist than I am.

My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies, I'll watch almost everything.

My family is very traditional, Catholic.

My hope that the Church will emerge as a strong leader in society is just that a hope. What I described in The Catholic Moment is not a prophecy but the outline of a possibility. There are no guarantees that my hopes expressed in The Catholic Moment will ever be realised.

My longing for truth was a single prayer.

My mom's Jewish and my dad's Irish Catholic alcoholic, so I whine on the inside.

Neither the true faith nor eternal salvation is to be found outside the Holy Catholic Church.