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Catholic Quotes & Scripture

39 hand-picked Catholic scripture, saints, and prayers on peace, hope, faith, healing, gratitude, and love. Catholic quotes from scripture, the saints, and the prayer tradition — offered with reverence.

Catholic Quotes

catholic
faith
love

Preach the Gospel at all times. When necessary, use words.

St. Francis of Assisi
catholic
hope
strength

From a little spark may burst a flame.

Dante Alighieri
catholic
purpose
spiritual-growth

What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.

Eleanor Powell, echoed by St. John Paul II
catholic
love
purpose

Do small things with great love.

St. Mother Teresa
catholic
peace
spiritual-growth

You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.

St. Augustine
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prayer
hope

Pray, hope, and don't worry.

St. Padre Pio
catholic
love

The measure of love is to love without measure.

St. Francis de Sales
catholic
peace
anxiety

Let nothing disturb you. Let nothing frighten you. All things pass. God does not change.

St. Teresa of Ávila
catholic
gratitude
love

It is in giving that we receive.

St. Francis of Assisi
catholic
love
spiritual-growth

Love is the most precious of treasures God can give to a soul.

St. John Vianney
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patience
wisdom

Patience obtains everything.

St. Teresa of Ávila
catholic
love
spiritual-growth

Charity is the sweet and holy bond which links the soul with its Creator.

St. Catherine of Siena
catholic
love
purpose

Teach us to give and not to count the cost.

Ignatius of Loyola
catholic
peace
prayer

Make me an instrument of your peace.

Francis of Assisi
catholic
forgiveness
love

Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon.

Francis of Assisi
catholic
forgiveness
love

It is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Francis of Assisi
catholic
purpose
strength

Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

Francis of Assisi
catholic
love
purpose

Do small things with great love.

Teresa of Calcutta
catholic
faith
strength

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Teresa of Calcutta
catholic
peace
love

Peace begins with a smile.

Teresa of Calcutta
catholic
peace
faith

Let nothing disturb you. Let nothing frighten you. All things pass. God does not change.

Teresa of Avila
catholic
patience
wisdom

Patience obtains all things.

Teresa of Avila
catholic
purpose
love

Christ has no body now but yours.

Teresa of Avila
catholic
love
purpose

I will spend my heaven doing good on earth.

Thérèse of Lisieux
catholic
love
patience

Miss no single opportunity of making some small sacrifice, here by a smiling look, there by a kindly word.

Thérèse of Lisieux
catholic
spiritual-growth
wisdom

The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self, can occur very quietly in the world.

Søren Kierkegaard
catholic
faith
hope

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

Martin Luther King Jr.
catholic
hope
strength

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

Martin Luther King Jr.
catholic
wisdom
spiritual-growth

Wisdom begins in wonder.

Socrates (in Christian tradition)
catholic
wisdom
purpose

Action is the proper fruit of knowledge.

Thomas Aquinas
catholic
faith
wisdom

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

Thomas Aquinas
catholic
wisdom
purpose

Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.

Thomas Aquinas
catholic
love
wisdom

Charity is the form, mover, mother and root of all the virtues.

Thomas Aquinas
catholic
purpose
spiritual-growth

The glory of God is man fully alive.

Irenaeus of Lyons
catholic
prayer
hope

Pray, hope, and don't worry.

Padre Pio
catholic
prayer
peace

In silence and in meditation on the eternal truths, I hear the voice of God.

Padre Pio
catholic
faith
prayer

Lord, I believe; help my unbelief.

Mark
Mark 9:24
catholic
wisdom
love

What does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

Micah
Micah 6:8
catholic
hope
gratitude

We are the Easter people and Hallelujah is our song.

John Paul II