#catholic

Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith. ↗

— Samantha Morton

#faith #huge #i #life #my life

[God] disciplines us for our good, that we may share His holiness. ↗

— Scott Hahn

#discipline #encouragement #holiness #inspirational #inspirational

Most people know the sheer wonder that goes with falling in love, how not only does everything in heaven and earth become new, but the lover himself becomes new. It is literally like the sap rising in the tree, putting forth new green shoots of life. ↗

— Caryll Houselander

#falling-in-love #love #life

I wanted to shut my mind, that my thoughts might close on my own peace, I wanted to close the peace of my love in my heart like dew in a dark rose." From "Philip Speaks ↗

— Caryll Houselander

#love #peace #rose #love

It is Jesus that you seek when you dream of happiness; He is waiting for you when nothing else you find satisfies you; He is the beauty to which you are so attracted; it is He who provoked you with that thirst for fullness that will not let you settle for compromise; it is He who urges you to shed the masks of a false life; it is He who reads in your heart your most genuine choices, the choices that others try to stifle. It is Jesus who stirs in you the desire to do something great with your lives, the will to follow an ideal, the refusal to allow yourselves to be ground down by mediocrity, the courage to commit yourselves humbly and patiently to improving yourselves and society, making the world more human and more fraternal. ↗

— John Paul II

#christianity #jesus-christ #beauty

The Catholic Church is like a thick steak, a glass of red wine, and a good cigar. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#church

Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#faith #mother-teresa #faith

I don't know, maybe it's because I was raised Catholic. Confession has always held a great appeal for me. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#appeal #because #catholic #confession #great

I loved Catholic school. I didn't like being beeped at by old pervs at the gas station because I was wearing a plaid skirt, though. It's like, do you think I'm going to stop and give you my phone number? ↗

— Kristen Bell

#being #catholic #catholic school #gas #gas station

Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church. ↗

— Bill Condon

#catholic church #church #dangerous #freud #his