Catherine Doherty famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

With God, every moment is the moment of beginning again.
-- Catherine Doherty

#Moments #Begin Again
We need to be poor! Let us live an ordinary life, but, beloved, let us live it with a passionate love for God. Become a mystery. Stretch one hand out to God, the other to your neighbour. Be cruciform. â€¦ Christâ€™s cross will be our revolution and it will be a revolution of love!
-- Catherine Doherty

#Hands #Revolution #Ordinary
Preach the Gospel with your life â€” without compromise!
-- Catherine Doherty

#Compromise
With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing.
-- Catherine Doherty

#Communication #Healing #Listening
Faith sees God's face in every human face.
-- Catherine Doherty

#Faces #Humans
She who received the seed of eternal glory Now dispenses grace, the seed of glory-to-come. My womb was the chalice of the impenetration of God That became the Incarnation of God and man
-- Catherine Doherty

#Men #Grace #Glory
Faith allows us to enter peacefully into the dark night which faces every one of us at one time or another.
-- Catherine Doherty

#Faith #Dark #Night
A saint is a sinner who loves; it's that simple!
-- Catherine Doherty

#Simple #Saint #Sinner
We do not go to mission lands to 'bring Jesus Christ' as much as to uncover him where he already is.
-- Catherine Doherty

#Jesus #Land #Christ
What binds us together is love, and only love. For love is a Person. Love is God.
-- Catherine Doherty

#Love Is #Together #God Is Love
Faith walks simply, childlike, between the darkness of human life and the hope of what is to come.
-- Catherine Doherty

#Hope #Darkness #Human Life
Purity of heart is love for the weak who constantly fall.
-- Catherine Doherty

#Fall #Heart #Purity
Pain is the kiss of Christ.
-- Catherine Doherty

#Pain #Kissing #Christ
Faith brings into our lives such freedom, such love, such peace, and such joy that there are no words in any language that can explain it. You have to have it in order to know it. You have to experience it in order to understand it. Faith liberates. It liberates love and hope. If I am free to love and free to hope, what more do I want of life?
-- Catherine Doherty

#Order #Joy #Want
We do not have to wait for the hereafter - it is now that we are one with Christ.
-- Catherine Doherty

#Waiting #Christ #Hereafter
It is so important for us to have faith, trust, confidence in one another. It is the only way we can communicate. Without faith there is no communication, there is no love, or if there was a little love, it will die without hope, trust, and confidence. Even if it doesn't die right away, it will be so weak, so ill, and so tired that communication will be miserable as well.
-- Catherine Doherty

#Life #Communication #Tired
Acquire inner peace and a multitude will find their salvation near you.
-- Catherine Doherty

#Peace #Inner Peace #Salvation
God reveals himself to those who wait for that revelation, and who don't try to tear at the hem of a mystery, forcing disclosure.
-- Catherine Doherty

#Waiting #Tears #Trying
Love... love... love, never counting the cost.
-- Catherine Doherty

#Cost #Counting
To pass through the door that leads to God's kingdom, we must go down on our knees.
-- Catherine Doherty

#Doors #Kingdoms #Knees
Real zeal is standing still and letting God be a bonfire in you.
-- Catherine Doherty

#Letting Go #Real #Bonfire
Lord, give me the heart of a child, and the awesome courage to live it out as an adult.
-- Catherine Doherty

#Children #Heart #Giving
Listen to God's speech in his wondrous, terrible, gentle, loving, all-embracing silence.
-- Catherine Doherty

#Silence #Speech #Terrible
What you do matters â€” but not much. What you are matters tremendously.
-- Catherine Doherty

#Matter
Every meal should be prepared with love and eaten in peace, because its purpose is to strengthen us for the service of Love.
-- Catherine Doherty

#Meals #Purpose #Should

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