Great Quotes

This page is for any great, interesting or thought provoking quotes that I've come across in my day, whether they be in a book, at a movie or from a friend. I'll be updating it periodically so check back often. Enjoy!

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"At the evening of life, we shall be judged on our love"
~St. John of the Cross~

"[The laity  has the right and duty, to work so that the divine message of salvation may be known and accepted by all men throughout the earth. This duty is the more pressing when it is only through them that men can hear the Gospel and know Christ"
~Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC) 900~

"Our Divine Lord made a distinction between liking and loving. Liking is in the emotions, in the temperament in the glads, in the feelings, and over these we have little or no control. Loving, however, is in the will and, therefore, is subject to command."
~Love, Marriage and Children by Archbishop Fulton Sheen~

"Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when the storm comes."
~The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas~

"Suffering overwhelms you because you take it like a coward. Meet it bravely and you will esteem it like a treasure."
~Joesemaria Escriva~

"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."
~Albus Dumbledore from HP and the Sorcer's Stone by J.K. Rowling

"You've made this day a special day by just your being you. There's no person in the whole world like you. And I like you just the way you are."

~Mr. (Fred) Rogers~

"The whole difference between construction and creation: a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists."

~G.K. Chesterton~

"'Good Morning' said Bilbo...Gandalf look at him, "What do you mean?" he said. "Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?'"

~Gandalf the Grey from The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien~

"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stoop up for something, sometime in your life."

~Winston Churchill~

"Let nothing trouble you. Let nothing frighten you. Every passes. God never changes. Patience obtains all. Whoever has God wants for nothing. God alone is enough."

~St. Teresa of Avila~

"Marriage is an adventure, like going to war"

~G.K. Chesterton~

"Without the cross there is no crown. Without Good Friday there is no Easter Sunday."

~Archbishop Fulton Sheen~

"To defend his purity, St. Francis of Assisi rolled in snow, St. Benedict threw himself in a thorn bush, St. Bernard plunged himself into an icy pond. You, what have you done? Don't say that it's the way I am, it's my character. NO! It's your LACK of character. Be a man! When you decide to live a pure life, chastity will not be a burden for you, it will be a crown of triumph."

~St. Jose Maria Escriva~

"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered."

~G.K. Chesterton~

"The world offers you comfort, but you were not made for comfort, you were made for greatness."
~Pope Benedict XVI~

"Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night."
~St. Jerome~

"Too Big. Too Strong. Too Fast. D Rose."
~Stacey King, Bull TV Broadcaster ~

"Conscience is the most secret core and sanctuary of a person...God gave you intelligence to know truth, and your will to achieve what is morally good. He has given you the light of conscience to guide your moral desisions, to love good and avoid evil. Moral truth is objetive, and a property formed conscience can perceive it."
~JPII~

"Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn."
~Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen~

"If you believe what you like in the Gospel and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself."
~St. Augustine~

"God will provide."
~St. Gerard~

"What is wrong is that we do not ask what is right."
~G.K. Chesterton, What is Wrong with the World~

"Pray, hope and don't worry."
~Saint Pio of Pietrelcina~

"Don't ask questions. Just Love"
~Peter Kreeft~

Your Mother hasn't heard from you in a decade.
Pray The Rosary!