45 CHRISTIAN’S QUOTES

45 CHRISTIAN’S QUOTES

1.
“The
family that prays together stays together.”_Father Patrick Peyton
2.
“The
life of the parents is the book which the children read.”_St Augustine
3.
“If
pagans call it the ‘day of the sun’, we willingly agree, for today the light of
the world is raised, today is revealed the sun of the justice with healing is
his rays.”_St Jerome
4.
“The
good man is free even if he is a slave. The evil man is a slave, even if he is
king.”_St Augustine
5.
“Happiness
is not in us, nor is happiness outside of us. Happiness is in God alone. And if
we have found him, then it is everywhere.”_ Blaise Pascal
6.
“God
wants us to be happy. But where does the source of this hope lie? It lies in
communion with God, who lives in the depths of the soul of every man.”_ Brother Roger Schutz
7.
“God
stretched out his hands on the cross so as to embrace the farthest corners of
the universe.”_ St Cyril of
Jerusalem
8.
“Let
nothing trouble you, let nothing frighten you. Everything passes God never changes.
Patience obtains all whoever has God wants for nothing. God alone is enough.”_ St Theresa of Avila
9.
“Man
is so great that nothing on earth can satisfy him. Only when he turns to God is
he content.”_ St John Vianney
10.
“O
God to turn away from you is to fall. To turn to you is to stand up. To remain
in you is to have a sure support.”_ St
Augustine
11.
“When
Christ’s hands were nailed to the cross he also nailed our sins to the cross.”_
St Bernard of Clairvaux
12.
“We
are not separated from one another [by death], because we all run the same
course and we will find one another again in the place.”_ Simon of Thessalonica
13.
“Christ
does not want admirers but followers.”_ Soren KIERKEGAARD
14.
“After
a fall, stand up again right away! Do not leave sin in your heart for even a
moment.”_ St John Vianney
15. Someone who loves a neighbor allows
him to be as he is, as he was and as he will be._
Michel Quoist
16. “God’s ways are the ways that he
himself walked and that we must now walk with him.”_
Dietrich Bonheoffer
17. “There is good without evil, but there is
nothing evil without good.”_ St
Thomas Aquinas
18. “God is so great that he can become
small. God is so powerful that he can make himself vulnerable and come to us as
a defenseless child, so that we can love him.”_ Pope Benedict ХVI
19. “When faith in the mother of God
declines, faith in the Son of God and God the Father declines also.”_ Ludwig Feuerbach(Atheistic Philosopher)
20. “Between sinners and the righteous
there is an association, for there are no righteous ones at all.”_
Gertrud Von Le Font
21. “If you are seeking God but do not know how
you should begin, learn to pray and make the effort to pray every day.”_St Theresa of Calcutta
22. “Much knowledge is not what satisfies the
soul and gives it contentment, but rather interior meditation on things and
savoring.”_ St Ignatius Loyola
23. “Prayer does not change God, but it
changes the person who prays.”_ Soren KIERKEGAARD
24. “There are two parts to a prayer of petition:
assurance that the prayer will be heard and absolute renunciation of an answer
according to one’s own plan.”_ Karl
Rahner
25. “Never
repeat a rumor before you have verified it. And if it is true, hold your tongue
all the more.”_ Selma Lagerlöf
26. “To give your body to another symbolizes the
total gift of yourself to that person.”_ St John Paul II
27. “Tuberculosis and cancer are not the most
terrible sickness. I think that a much more terrible sickness is to be unwanted
and unloved.”_ St Theresa of
Calcutta
28. “Jesus
is the center of all things and the foundation for all things; he who does not
know him knows nothing about the world and nothing about himself.”_ Blaise Pascal
29. “Trees and stars will teach you what you can
never learn from teachers.”_ St
Bernard of Clairvaux
30. “The glory of God is man fully alive;
moreover, man’s life is the vision of God.”_ St Irenaeus of Lyons
31. “The most important thing is to begin
decisively.”_ St Theresa of Avila
32. “People do not criticize Christ. They
criticize Christians because they do not resemble him.”_ Francois Mauriac
33. “Apart from the Cross there is no
other ladder by which we may get to heaven.”_ St Rose of Lima
34. “Walk with your feet on earth, but in your
heart be in heaven.”_ St John Bosco
35. “A democracy without values easily turns into
open on thinly disguised totalitarianism.”_ St John Paul II
36. “As rust consumes iron, so envy consumes the
soul that is afflicted by it.”_ St
Basil the Great
37. “In scripture to see is to possess….
Whoever sees God has obtained all the goods of which he can conceive.”_ St Gregory of Nyssa
38. “God himself will be goal of our desires, we
shall contemplate him without end, love him without surfeit, praise him without
weariness.”_ St Augustine
39. “Call on Mary with devotion, and she will not
leave your needs unattended, since she is merciful, indeed, the mother of
Mercy.”_ St Bernard of Clairvaux
40. “True love hurts. It always must hurt. It has
to be painful to love someone; painful to leave him, you would like to die for
him. When people marry, they have to give up everything in order to love each
other. A mother who gives life to a child suffers much. The word ‘love’ is
misunderstood and misused so much.”_St
Theresa of Calcutta
41. “Our
life now belongs to Christ and no longer to ourselves. At his side and, indeed,
drawn up in his love, we are freed from fear. He enfolds us and carries us
wherever we may go…he who is life itself.”_ Pope Benedict XVI
42. “Speak about Christ only when you are asked.
But live so that people ask about Christ!”_Paul Claudel
43. “If you carry your cross joyfully, it will
carry you.”_St Thomas Aquinas
44. “After I recognized that there is a
God, it was impossible for me not to live for him alone.”_Bl. Charles de Foucauld
45. “When there is no property, there is no joy is
giving, either; then no one can have the pleasure of helping his friends, the
traveler, or the afflicted in their need.”_Aristotle
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by KWIZERA Eric

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