tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43737883177768874532024-03-13T07:43:25.478-04:00The Catholic Breadbox: Catholic QuotationsCatholic quotations from the Church Doctors, Church Fathers and all the great Catholic minds.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3150125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373788317776887453.post-63364458616901454312017-10-15T00:00:00.000-04:002017-10-15T00:00:14.046-04:00QUOTATION: Evangelization<div style="text-align: justify;">
Effective Christian witness is not about bombarding people with religious messages, but about our willingness to be available to others “by patiently and respectfully engaging their questions and their doubts as they advance in their search for the truth and the meaning of human existence” (BENEDICT XVI, Message for the 47th World Communications Day, 2013). We need but recall the story of the disciples on the way to Emmaus. We have to be able to dialogue with the men and women of today, to understand their expectations, doubts and hopes, and to bring them the Gospel, Jesus Christ himself, God incarnate, who died and rose to free us from sin and death. We are challenged to be people of depth, attentive to what is happening around us and spiritually alert. To dialogue means to believe that the “other” has something worthwhile to say, and to entertain his or her point of view and perspective. Engaging in dialogue does not mean renouncing our own ideas and traditions, but the claim that they alone are valid or absolute.</div>
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--Pope Francis, Message for 48th World Communications Day, January 24, 2014.<br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373788317776887453.post-614160151820146372017-10-14T00:00:00.000-04:002017-10-14T00:00:13.320-04:00QUOTATION: SatanSatan is equally pleased by our overestimating him and our underestimating him.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373788317776887453.post-29141502664591179752017-10-13T00:00:00.000-04:002017-10-13T00:00:11.474-04:00QUOTATION: Obedience to the PopeHe who rebels against our Father, Christ on earth, is condemned to death, for that which we do to him, we do to Christ in heaven – we honor Christ if we honor the pope, we dishonor Christ if we dishonor the pope… I tell you that God will and has so commanded that even if the priests and the pastors of the Church and Christ on earth were incarnate devils, it is seemly that we are obedient and subject to them, not for their sake, but for the sake of God, out of obedience to Him, for He wills that we should act thus.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373788317776887453.post-29038658844496449682017-10-12T00:00:00.000-04:002017-10-12T00:00:07.517-04:00QUOTATION: Expose Pro-Abortion ContradictionsThere is a tremendous disconnect at every level of our society regarding abortion, and as a result, the child in the womb has become the great blind spot of our culture. This disconnect is fueled by denial and fraught with the most blatantly absurd contradictions that the human mind can conjure. To advance justice for the unborn, we have to challenge these contradictions and expose them.<br />
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--Fr. Frank Pavone, Abolishing Abortion<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373788317776887453.post-77641736858928789202017-10-11T00:00:00.000-04:002017-10-11T00:00:10.363-04:00QUOTATION: Atheism<div class="MsoNormal">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373788317776887453.post-24623973867076703462017-10-10T00:00:00.000-04:002017-10-10T00:00:20.167-04:00QUOTATION: Obedience<div style="text-align: justify;">
In an age in which emancipation is regarded as the true heart of redemption, and freedom appears as the right to do everything I myself want to, and only that, the concept of obedience is, so to speak, anathematized. It has been excised, not merely from our vocabulary, but from our thinking. Yet this conception of freedom is the very thing that has made people incapable of living with one another, incapable of loving. It enslaves people. That is why obedience, correctly understood, has to be rehabilitated and be made effective in the heart of Christian and priestly spirituality.</div>
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--Pope Benedict XVI, “The Ministry and Life of Priests”, Pilgrim Fellowship of Faith<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373788317776887453.post-66206893153761943422017-10-09T00:00:00.000-04:002017-10-09T00:00:31.711-04:00QUOTATION: The Number One Problem in the ChurchSpiritual malnourishment is the number one problem facing our Church.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373788317776887453.post-25905937371016317382017-10-08T00:00:00.000-04:002017-10-08T00:00:10.172-04:00QUOTATION: ForgivenessForgiveness does not deny the injustice one has been subjected to, but it acknowledges the fact that the human being, created in the image of God, is always superior to the wrong that is committed.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373788317776887453.post-55642845738551698012017-10-07T00:00:00.000-04:002017-10-07T00:00:06.375-04:00QUOTATION: GratitudeActs of gratitude make one grateful because, step by step, they reveal that all is grace.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373788317776887453.post-74862158446812765052017-10-06T00:00:00.000-04:002017-10-06T00:00:31.141-04:00QUOTATION: Hell<div class="MsoNormal">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373788317776887453.post-86113146380587224032017-10-05T00:00:00.000-04:002017-10-05T00:00:06.423-04:00QUOTATION: PrayerI think we look for excuses not to pray and not to ponder. We can find them by the droves. But we don't have any excuse.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373788317776887453.post-10134285520996549002017-10-04T00:00:00.000-04:002017-10-04T00:00:37.254-04:00QUOTATION: NationalismThe worrying resurgence of aggressive forms of nationalism and racism constitute serious threats to human dignity and undermine social coexistence, peace and harmony.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373788317776887453.post-29966075617268526482017-10-03T00:00:00.000-04:002017-10-03T00:00:25.543-04:00QUOTATION: Satan's Use of Virtue<div class="MsoNormal">
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isolate it from others. Beware of these subtle tactics of Satan, who disguises
himself well in the robes of virtue. He uses detached virtues, virtues out of
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A Reflection on the Ways Satan Uses Even Good Things to Entrap Us”, Community
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373788317776887453.post-14833669117372957692017-10-02T00:00:00.000-04:002017-10-02T00:00:21.160-04:00QUOTATION: The Idols of Our Day<div class="MsoNormal">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373788317776887453.post-57465215445239517642017-10-01T00:00:00.000-04:002017-10-01T00:00:20.013-04:00QUOTATION: Scruples<div style="text-align: justify;">
Up to a certain point scruples are not harmful to the one suffering from them, when that person becomes, because of his scruples, more vigilant and careful about not offending God, and does not form a judgment that this or that is sinful, even though he has some doubt or fear that it is, and places his confidence in another person whom he should trust, setting aside his own judgment and accepting that of his adviser. If these two points to not help the scrupulous person, then he is in the gravest danger, not only of offending God by failing to avoid what he erroneously thinks is sin, but also of losing the opportunity and the ability to serve Him, and even his own natural judgment.</div>
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--St. Ignatius Loyola, Letter to Father Juan Marín, 1556.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373788317776887453.post-76803926850453419832017-09-30T00:00:00.000-04:002017-09-30T00:00:19.933-04:00QUOTATION: When Will We End Abortion?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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when we connect, both mentally and emotionally, with the human tragedy abortion
represents, when we drink deeply of that spiritual imperative and become
inebriated with holy impatience.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373788317776887453.post-79313345308927828712017-09-29T00:00:00.000-04:002017-09-29T00:00:05.439-04:00QUOTATION: Reaching Out<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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As I have frequently observed, if a choice has to be made between a bruised Church which goes out to the streets and a Church suffering from self-absorption, I certainly prefer the first. Those “streets” are the world where people live and where they can be reached, both effectively and affectively. The digital highway is one of them, a street teeming with people who are often hurting, men and women looking for salvation or hope. By means of the internet, the Christian message can reach “to the ends of the earth” (Acts 1:8). Keeping the doors of our churches open also means keeping them open in the digital environment so that people, whatever their situation in life, can enter, and so that the Gospel can go out to reach everyone. We are called to show that the Church is the home of all.</div>
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--Pope Francis, <i>Message for 48th World Communications Day</i>, January 24, 2014.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373788317776887453.post-10109312276730811572017-09-28T00:00:00.000-04:002017-09-28T00:00:17.253-04:00QUOTATION: God's Forgiveness<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The sinful woman in the Gospel was pardoned greatly because she loved greatly. In Jesus, God comes to give love to us and to ask love of us.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373788317776887453.post-49332217000194367332017-09-27T00:00:00.000-04:002017-09-27T00:00:44.653-04:00QUOTATION: God is the Source of Authority<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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the outside; it is from the inside – the hearts of citizens in whom the light
of faith has gone out. Keep God as the origin of authority and you keep the
ethical character of authority; reject Him and the authority becomes power subject
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373788317776887453.post-2657373029013146152017-09-26T00:00:00.000-04:002017-09-26T00:00:26.520-04:00QUOTATION: Obedience to the Superior<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The superior is to be obeyed not because he is
prudent, or good, or qualified by any other gift of God, but because he holds
the place and the authority of God, as Eternal Truth has said: He who hears
you, hears me; and he who rejects you, rejects me [Luke 10:16]. Nor on the
contrary, should he lack prudence, is he to be the less obeyed in that in which
he is superior, since he represents Him who is infallible wisdom, and who will
supply what is wanting in His minister, nor, should he lack goodness or other
desirable qualities, since Christ our Lord, having said, the scribes and the
Pharisees sit on the chair of Moses, adds, therefore, whatever they shall tell
you, observe and do: but do not act according to their works [Matt. 23:2-3].<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373788317776887453.post-29708951908157087852017-09-25T00:00:00.000-04:002017-09-25T00:00:08.349-04:00QUOTATION: We Must All Repent of Abortion<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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sin but our sin. Even if we have never participated in an abortion, we must ask
forgiveness for it. It is easy to blame abortion on those who do it and support
it. But we must blame ourselves as well. This is spiritual dynamic that has to
undergird all of our other activities to abolish abortion. First and foremost
we are called to repent, to take responsibility for the innocent blood that has
been shed, and then to intervene to save the helpless.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373788317776887453.post-75478923626949109572017-09-24T00:00:00.000-04:002017-09-24T00:00:07.976-04:00QUOTATION: Take Risks! <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Let us go forth, then, let us go forth to offer
everyone the life of Jesus Christ. Here I repeat for the entire Church what I
have often said to the priests and laity of Buenos Aires: <b style="background-color: yellow;">I prefer a Church
which is bruised, hurting and dirty because it has been out on the streets,
rather than a Church which is unhealthy from being confined and from clinging
to its own security.</b> I do not want a Church concerned with being at the centre
and which then ends by being caught up in a web of obsessions and procedures.
If something should rightly disturb us and trouble our consciences, it is the fact
that so many of our brothers and sisters are living without the strength, light
and consolation born of friendship with Jesus Christ, without a community of
faith to support them, without meaning and a goal in life. More than by fear of
going astray, my hope is that we will be moved by the fear of remaining shut up
within structures which give us a false sense of security, within rules which
make us harsh judges, within habits which make us feel safe, while at our door
people are starving and Jesus does not tire of saying to us: “Give them
something to eat” (Mk 6:37).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Gaudium</i> #49, November 24, 2013.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373788317776887453.post-91951972356775477972017-09-23T00:00:00.000-04:002017-09-23T00:00:06.103-04:00QUOTATION: Christianity<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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in the meanwhile also become obsolete, not a package of dogmas and rules beyond
being grasped as a whole. Christian faith is being touched by God and
witnessing to him.</span></div>
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the Third Millennium”, <i>Pilgrim Fellowship of Faith</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373788317776887453.post-17269694445669014472017-09-22T00:00:00.000-04:002017-09-22T00:00:00.183-04:00QUOTATION: The Anti-Religious<div style="text-align: left;">
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJRn7uwKY8PnMlbyKvRITHqsGu_cOxinxObDUU5bI4_-rRTKVmLeGOBF83aUFSlmMeX9Z1m1DH6ls69tISw4nzPbRuTWDVpkX6jVcT6vop2fWoUImjDbxoqs104GVMFNXmJfB8a5NaWB8/s1600/FJS20.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen" border="0" data-original-height="125" data-original-width="86" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJRn7uwKY8PnMlbyKvRITHqsGu_cOxinxObDUU5bI4_-rRTKVmLeGOBF83aUFSlmMeX9Z1m1DH6ls69tISw4nzPbRuTWDVpkX6jVcT6vop2fWoUImjDbxoqs104GVMFNXmJfB8a5NaWB8/s1600/FJS20.jpg" title="" /></a><span style="color: #1d2129;">Why are those who are
notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and
morality? They are trying to solace their own unhappy lives by pulling the
happy down to their own abysmal depths.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129;">--Archbishop
Fulton J. Sheen<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373788317776887453.post-86225657607799774992017-09-21T00:00:00.000-04:002017-09-21T00:00:09.554-04:00QUOTATION: Correcting People in Error<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">We should not dispute stubbornly with anyone; rather
we should patiently give our reasons with the purpose of declaring the truth
lest our neighbor remain in error, and not that we should have the upper hand.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">--St. Ignatius Loyola, To the Scholastics at Alcalá,
1543<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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