Improving Your Body Image Through Catholic Teaching Quotes

“Fear can morph into pride, and pride or self-love—when most thoughts or acts are meant to serve ourselves—can stifle the human person’s true purpose: to participate in self-giving love. Our goal is to avoid shutting down physically and spiritually. True love does not contain fear; in fact, perfect love denies fear (see 1 Jn 4:18).”
― John Acquaviva, Improving Your Body Image Through Catholic Teaching: How Theology of the Body and Other Church Writings Can Transform Your Life

“Trusting in the grace of the sacraments allows God’s grace to penetrate our heart and mind, and allows us to see that a perfect body is not a part of God’s plan. Rather, God’s plan is for us to use the body in perfect ways.”
― John Acquaviva, Improving Your Body Image Through Catholic Teaching: How Theology of the Body and Other Church Writings Can Transform Your Life

“But in order to fall spiritually, the body must cooperate.”
― John Acquaviva, Improving Your Body Image Through Catholic Teaching: How Theology of the Body and Other Church Writings Can Transform Your Life

“St. Francis de Sales: “Love everyone with a great love, but have no friendship except for those that communicate with you in the things of virtue.”
― John Acquaviva, Improving Your Body Image Through Catholic Teaching: How Theology of the Body And Other Church Writings Can Transform Your Life.

“To a great extent the level of any civilization is the level of its womanhood. When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more her character, the more devoted she is to truth, justice, goodness, the more a man has to aspire to be worthy of her The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women. Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen”
― John Acquaviva, Improving Your Body Image Through Catholic Teaching: How Theology of the Body And Other Church Writings Can Transform Your Life.