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Silence does good to the soul.

He that is jealous is not in love.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

I will go anywhere and do anything in order to communicate the love of Jesus to those who do not know Him or have forgotten Him.

Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

Whatever skills I have acquired, whatever gifts I have been given, I place them at Your service.

Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.

Go courageously to God, along the way He has traced out for you, steadfastly embracing the means He offers you.

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

To sing is to pray twice.

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

Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.

Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so.

True charity consists in doing good to those who do us evil, and in thus winning them over.

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

With the help of pressure groups, government now has crossed over into the final frontier of bigotry, what writer and Catholic theologian Michael Novak calls ‘Christophobia .’ Traditional Christians and Jews are the new counterculture – aliens in a land their forefathers’ beliefs and values established and built.

In a world that has lost a sense of sin, one sin remains: Thou shalt not make people feel guilty (except, of course, about making people feel guilty). In other words, the only sin today is to call something a sin.

Every Irish person of my generation and earlier, we were raised Catholic and we’d have to learn it in school, we’d to learn the catechism by rote.

Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it.

Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?

The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.

Everywhere in the world there are ignorance and prejudice, but the greatest complex of these, with the most extensive prestige and the most intimate entanglement with traditional institutions, is the Roman Catholic Church.

Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.

For us Catholics, John Paul II will be remembered as a traveling Pope … and we should also remember he preached world peace. When the United States invaded Iraq, for example, John Paul II said it was an illegal and immoral act.

At the center of the universe, is a deep abiding love. We are called to be part of it. We Catholics and Christians are not ashamed to believe this. We invite everyone to accept the challenge to live as if we were all loved into existence.

A Roman Catholic worships a god who speaks through the Pope, while a Baptist worships a god who does not. They cannot be worshipping the same god.

We must sow the seed, not hoard it.

The Mass is the most perfect form of prayer.

I need to learn not to bend over backwards to be nice to faith-heads. Give these people an inch and they take a league. I think, as I did when I wrote The God Delusion, that the Roman Catholic Church is a disgusting institution, the second most evil religion in the world.

As long as leadership from above was not lacking, the people fulfilled their duty and obligation overwhelmingly. Whether Protestant pastor or Catholic priest, both together and particularly at the first flare, there really existed in both camps but a single holy German Reich, for whose existence and future each man turned to his own heaven.

The Catholic church is the biggest financial power, wealth accumulator and property owner in existence. She is a greater possessor of material riches than any other single institution, corporation, bank, giant trust, government or state of the whole globe.

Just went to a lovely Catholic wedding. I need a drink. They didn’t even offer us water. Well they did, but it was Holy water.

I do a certain amount of work in religious communities on these issues. It’s not the central focus of my work but it is certainly an area where I have worked a lot. It has gotten much better over the years, especially over the last couple years. There wasn’t a religious environmental movement 15 years ago, but there is now – in the Catholic community, the Jewish community, the mainline Protestant community, and in the Evangelical community.