THE BOOK OF CATHOLIC QUOTATIONS
John Chapin, Editor
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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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"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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"Human nature is in all ages and in all countries the same." Cardinal Newman, 'Idea of a University' (19th century)
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"Love is the movement, effusion and advancement of the heart toward the good." St. Francis deSales, 'Treatise on the Love of God' (17th century)
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"Faith opens the door to understanding." St. Augustine, Letter 137, 15 (5th 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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"One of the greatest paradoxes of the mystical life is this: that a man cannot enter into the deepest center of himself and pass through that center into God, unless he is able to pass entirely out of himself and empty himself and give himself to other people in the purity of a selfless love." Thomas Merton, 'Seeds of Contemplation' (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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"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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"The law of nature is the same as the eternal law implanted in rational creatures, and inclining them to their right action and end; and can be nothing else but the eternal reason of God, the Creator and Ruler of all the world." Pope Leo XIII, 'Libertas Praestantissimum', June 20, 1888
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"The only true joy on earth is to…enter by love into union with the Life Who dwells and sings within the essence of every creature and in the core of our own souls." Thomas Merton, 'Seeds of Contemplation' (20th 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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"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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"To love is to wish the other's highest good." R. H. Benson, 'Come Rack! Come Rope!' (20th century)
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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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"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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"All is love's, and in love, for love." St. Francis deSales, 'Treatise on the Love of God'
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"Prophets and apostles, evangelists and saints, speak to us with voices that never die." Cardinal Manning, 'The Eternal Priesthood' (19th century)
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"There are no galley slaves in the royal vessel of divine love – every one works his oar voluntarily." Jean Pierre Camus, 'The Spirit of St. Francis deSales' (17th 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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"Nature is the art of God eternal." Dante, 'De monarchia' (14th century)
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"Immortality is a nature-given, inalienable property of the human soul." Jacques Maritain, 'The Range of Reason' (20th century)
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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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"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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"That our will is free is self-evident." Rene Descartes, 'Principles of Philosophy' (17th century)
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