The Catholic Collection Quotes

“You control your passions by cultivating that humility which recognizes the good in your passions and utilizes it, the bad in your passions and suppresses it, the express will of God for your passions and follows it, the goal of victory over your unruly passions (which is heaven) and wins it.”
― Catholic Way Publishing, The Catholic Collection: 734 Catholic Essays and Novels on Authentic Catholic Teaching

“He asks: “Are you willing to give Me anything I want? To do whatever I ask of you? Come follow Me.” He who made our hearts knows how to attract them. Misery is the element of Satan. Joy is the element of Our Lord. The highest joy is to be found in His service. He wants us to be near Him, because to be near Him is happiness. He wants us to be like Him, because to be like Him is happiness.”
― Catholic Way Publishing, The Catholic Collection: 734 Catholic Essays and Novels on Authentic Catholic Teaching

“Our Lord says, “If you want to be perfect you must let nothing stand between you and Me; there must be nothing held back: no deliberate affection for anything opposed to My Will.” The standard is high, but Our Lord’s words are, “ If thou wouldst be perfect.” Are there things in my heart which pull me away from Our Lord? What has been stopping me from real peace of soul?”
― Catholic Way Publishing, The Catholic Collection: 734 Catholic Essays and Novels on Authentic Catholic Teaching

“It is not the reading of pious books, or the saying of long prayers, or science, or knowledge, which introduces the Child Jesus into our hearts. It is the love, it is the longing for Him to be there, that brings Him.”
― Catholic Way Publishing, The Catholic Collection: 734 Catholic Essays and Novels on Authentic Catholic Teaching

“If you open the door of a dark room you cannot see the dust or dirt that is in it. But if you open even a chink of the shutter, then it is that you see the dust. The more light you let in the more dust you notice. Thus it is with God’s light. The more do we ask the Holy Ghost to pour His illuminating light into our souls, the more do we notice our faults.”
― Catholic Way Publishing, The Catholic Collection: 734 Catholic Essays and Novels on Authentic Catholic Teaching

“The world looks upon piety as in some way connected with sadness. As laughter is good for the body, so is cheerfulness good for the soul.People will say, “We are not told that Our Lord ever laughed.” On the other hand, we are told that Our Lord was loved wherever He went.”
― Catholic Way Publishing, The Catholic Collection: 734 Catholic Essays and Novels on Authentic Catholic Teaching

“We should all do very much more for God if we endeavoured to bring more enjoyment into our lives and into the lives of others. If the world were much better it would be much happier. St. Paul says, “Rejoice in the Lord always, and again I say rejoice.” Happiness always leads to and never away from God.”
― Catholic Way Publishing, The Catholic Collection: 734 Catholic Essays and Novels on Authentic Catholic Teaching

“Our Lord died for each one of us. Could He do more? He longs for our personal love. High sanctity is within the reach of everyone. Our Lord does not look to beauty, position, money, intellect. All He asks is correspondence to His grace.”
― Catholic Way Publishing, The Catholic Collection: 734 Catholic Essays and Novels on Authentic Catholic Teaching

“There is nothing easier than to love God, because there is nothing unlovable in Him. God is Love. He asks our love in return. Oh, my God, do Thou fill my heart, my soul, my whole being with the fire of Thy Divine Love.”
― Catholic Way Publishing, The Catholic Collection: 734 Catholic Essays and Novels on Authentic Catholic Teaching

“Whatever attracts you in your fellow-creatures is His gift, and possessed by Him in a higher sense.”
― Catholic Way Publishing, The Catholic Collection: 734 Catholic Essays and Novels on Authentic Catholic Teaching

“The first thing necessary in loving Our Lord is to believe Him lovable. What are the sort of persons one loves? First, they must be easy to get on with. How many in their heart of hearts think Our Lord easy to get on with? We think Him touchy, unapproachable, easily annoyed or offended. And yet all this fear of Him pains Him very much. Would our father wish us to hang our heads, be shy and shrinking in his presence? How much less so our Heavenly Father? He has an almost foolish love for us. Never was a mother so blind to the faults of her child as Our Lord is to ours.”
― Catholic Way Publishing, The Catholic Collection: 734 Catholic Essays and Novels on Authentic Catholic Teaching

“How can I complain, my God? How can I be mistrustful or even anxious? “My lots are in Thy hands.”
― Catholic Way Publishing, The Catholic Collection: 734 Catholic Essays and Novels on Authentic Catholic Teaching

“St. Peter walks happily towards Jesus as long as he looks at Him alone, but the moment he looks at the waves and himself he sinks. Look at Jesus, not at self or at danger.”
― Catholic Way Publishing, The Catholic Collection: 734 Catholic Essays and Novels on Authentic Catholic Teaching

“Fervent love offers itself for any service, believes nothing impossible, is ready for all.”
― Catholic Way Publishing, The Catholic Collection: 734 Catholic Essays and Novels on Authentic Catholic Teaching

“Let us ask God to give us patience to bear with ourselves and to bear with others.”
― Catholic Way Publishing, The Catholic Collection: 734 Catholic Essays and Novels on Authentic Catholic Teaching

“It is a very great trial to many of us to be unable to get every day to Holy Communion. But to bear quietly with our weakness, because it is His will, pleases Him a great deal more than the most fervent Communion we ever made.”
― Catholic Way Publishing, The Catholic Collection: 734 Catholic Essays and Novels on Authentic Catholic Teaching

“Not to lose patience with ourselves when we feel rotten is a very high virtue.”
― Catholic Way Publishing, The Catholic Collection: 734 Catholic Essays and Novels on Authentic Catholic Teaching

“In the days of great austerities nerves did not exist. They are a product of our time. Nerves are the austerities we have to bear today. Bear with yourself, your depression, gloom, moods, variability of temper. To bear with one’s self is an act of great virtue.”
― Catholic Way Publishing, The Catholic Collection: 734 Catholic Essays and Novels on Authentic Catholic Teaching

“If I feel tired and battered, that is no reason for dissatisfaction. A soldier in a campaign is not astonished if he is wounded or feels overdone from fatigue.”
― Catholic Way Publishing, The Catholic Collection: 734 Catholic Essays and Novels on Authentic Catholic Teaching

“Across the world have swept the forces bent on destroying all those who disagree with them and determined to root up any opinion that blocks their way. We have lived to see the advanced liberalism of the world swing to the opposite extreme of totalitarianism in government and thought.”
― Catholic Way Publishing, The Catholic Collection: 734 Catholic Essays and Novels on Authentic Catholic Teaching

“O my God, up to now I have done nothing for Thee Who hast done so much for me. My coldness could well make Thee cast me away from Thee. But, O Holy Spirit, make warm what is cold. Deliver me from my lack of fervour and make me burn with the desire to please Thee. I now wish to deny all that pleases me. I would rather die than displease Thee in the least thing. To Thee Who hast appeared in the form of fiery tongues, I consecrate my tongue that it may not offend Thee again. Thou didst give it to me to praise Thee, but I, I have used it to injure Thee and cause others to offend Thee. I am sorry for my sins. For the love of Jesus Christ Who honoured Thee so much by His tongue when He walked this earth, grant that henceforward I may honour Thee by praising Thee, by asking often for Thy help and by speaking of Thy goodness and the infinite love Thou deservest. I love Thee, my supreme Good, I love Thee, O loving God. O Mary, most beloved Spouse of the Holy Spirit, obtain for me this holy fire.”
― Catholic Way Publishing, The Catholic Collection: 734 Catholic Essays and Novels on Authentic Catholic Teaching

“Worrying is so much time and so much strength thrown away. It is as useless as . . . . the toil of dropping buckets into empty wells. And growing old in drawing nothing up.”
― Catholic Way Publishing, The Catholic Collection: 734 Catholic Essays and Novels on Authentic Catholic Teaching

“A person buys eyeglasses and only then appreciates what his sound eyes were to him. A person becomes ill, and only then perceives what an immense treasure health was to him. A person loses some members of the family, some relative or friend, and only then sees how many good people God had given him. And so on. Why must we fail to appreciate anything, until we have lost it? True, there is much grief in life, but there are also many little sunny joys which we are unwilling to see. Yet, if these could elicit such loud prayers of gratitude from our lips as the loud complaints which grief makes us utter, we would certainly bear the burden of life as easily as a certain laborer bore his knapsack with the little cricket in it.”
― Catholic Way Publishing, The Catholic Collection: 734 Catholic Essays and Novels on Authentic Catholic Teaching

“Excuses are admissions of lack of Faith, lack of appreciation, lack of love, and an open confession of laziness!”
― Catholic Way Publishing, The Catholic Collection: 734 Catholic Essays and Novels on Authentic Catholic Teaching