United States Catholic Catechism for Adults Quotes

“Where did I find you, that I came to know you? You were not within my memory before I learned of you. Where, then, did I find you before I came to know you, if not within yourself, far above me?... Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient, ever new, late have I loved you!... Created things kept me from you; yet if they had not been in you they would not have been at all. [O eternal truth, true love and beloved eternity. You are my God. To you I sigh day and night.]... You were with me but I was not with you. Created things kept me from you; yet if they had not been in you they would not have been at all. You called, you shouted, and you broke through my deafness. You flashed, you shone, and you dispelled my blindness. You breathed your fragrance on me; I drew in breath and now I pant for you. I have tasted you; now I hunger and thirst for more. You touched me, and I burn for your peace. —St. Augustine, The Confessions, bk. 10, chap. 26, 27.37”
― United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, United States Catholic Catechism for Adults

“We may not have to do great things, but we are called to do everyday duties with great love. The”
― United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, United States Catholic Catechism for Adults

“He shared with them his own merciful mission. He breathed on them a second time and said, As the Father has sent me, so I send you.... Receive the holy Spirit. Whose sins you forgive are forgiven them, and whose sins you retain are retained. (Jn 20:21-23) That night Jesus gave the Church the ministry of the forgiveness of sins through the Apostles (cf. CCC, no. 1461). By the Sacrament of Holy Orders, bishops and priests continue this ministry to forgive sins “in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.” In this Sacrament, the priest acts in the person of Christ, the Head of the Church, to reconcile the sinner to both God and the Church. “When he celebrates the Sacrament of Penance, the priest is fulfilling the ministry of the Good Shepherd who seeks the lost sheep.... The priest is the sign and instrument of God’s merciful love for the sinner”
― United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, United States Catholic Catechism for Adults

“God loves each one of us as if there were only one of us to love. —St. Augustine”
― United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, United States Catholic Catechism for Adults

“People have always asked fundamental questions: Who am I? Where did I come from? Where am I going? Why do I need to struggle to achieve my goals? Why is it so hard to love and be loved? What is the meaning of sickness, death, and evil? What will happen after death?”
― United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, United States Catholic Catechism for Adults

“Elizabeth Ann Seton died in 1821 at the age of forty-six, and she was canonized in 1975 as the first native-born North American saint. Her feast day is celebrated on January 4.”
― United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, United States Catholic Catechism for Adults

“God has planted in every human heart the hunger and longing for the infinite, for nothing less than God. St. Augustine, a theologian from the fifth century, said it best: “Our heart is restless until it rests in you” (St. Augustine, The Confessions, bk. 1, chap. 1, 1; cf. CCC, no. 30).”
― United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, United States Catholic Catechism for Adults

“The goal of the Catechism of the Catholic Church is to help facilitate the lifelong conversion of the whole person to the Father’s call to holiness and eternal life.”
― United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, United States Catholic Catechism for Adults