The “when” is now, and it is in our hands.

-Pope Francis

Choose not the path of fear, but that of faith.

-Galadriel (The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power) 

Hope is never mere, even when it is meager. When all other senses sleep, the eye of hope is first to awaken, last to shut. 

-Gil-Galad (The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power) 

Those who pray and suffer, leaving action for others, will not shine here on earth; but what a radiant crown they will wear in the kingdom of life! 

-St. Josemaria Escriva

Let nothing new be introduced, but only what has been handed down. 

-Pope Benedict XV

It is easier to live as a Protestant, but better to die as a Catholic.

-Martin Luther

• If you make peace with the inevitability of destruction, you become that destruction.
• There is hope. There will always be hope. Whether you choose to make peace with this is in your hands alone.

-Anonymous

• God can no more withhold his grace from a soul prepared to receive it than the sun can fail to shine through an open window. 

-St. John Fisher 

• Sometimes we see other religions, and other groups growing faster, drawing more and more people to themselves. In the days of the Apostles the “state” religion of Rome was acceptable, popular, and represented the status quo. Christianity was considered the religion of the naïve and poor. You will note that the glorious Roman Empire is gone the Lord’s church is still here doing the Lord’s work. We’re not here to be popular or noticed, we’re here to preach the word of the Lord and do His work in this generation like those who came before us and those we know will come after — a golden chain that stretches from the cross to the glorious return of Christ! .. and we are one precious link in that chain.

• We shouldn’t worry about the ability of the church to survive the times. Throughout history the church has gone up and down in its size and effectiveness. These are normal fluctuations that the church has always, and will always have until Jesus comes.

•  If we look at history, every generation brings another group or government, or philosophy that attempts to control, destroy or dismiss the church – but all have failed. Jesus promised that the church, although severely tested at times, would always prevail. You are safe with God in the church that belongs to Christ.

• What a comfort it is to know that despite our hurts and struggles, we belong to the one thing that is not decaying in this world; we belong to the one thing that is ever growing, ever moving forward – the church of our Lord, Jesus Christ. What a comfort to know that despite our tears and disappointments, we can have confidence, security, hope in the fact that as members of this body, the Lord will not permit our souls to be lost, our beings to pass away but will raise us up in glory when He comes for us, His church. What a comfort to know that the Lord of this church has promised us that He will never leave us, never abandon us, always be with us so that our prayers and concerns are always before Him …. what or who else offers such comfort, such promise?

-Anonymous

• The Catholic Church is an institution I am bound to hold divine – but for unbelievers a proof of its divinity might be found in the fact that no merely human institution conducted with such knavish imbecility would have lasted a fortnight. 

• There are only two alternatives for society; Catholicism or chaos. If it is not to be chaos, if Christ is not to abandon us, then Christ must reign, and if He is to reign He can only do so if we, who claim to be His disciples, restore Him to His rightful throne. 

• I am a Catholic. As far as possible, I go to Mass every day. This is a rosary. As far as possible, I kneel down and tell these beads every day. If you reject me on account of my religion, I shall thank God that He has spared me the indignity of being your representative. 

• When one remembers how the Catholic Church has be governed, and by whom, one realizes that it must have been divinely inspired to have survived it all. 

-Hilaire Belloc 

• We are not Catholic because of the moral excellence of our leaders. God help us if we were. We are Catholic because of Jesus Christ, crucified and risen from the dead. 

-Bishop Barron 

• When men demand things contrary to the Divine Will, then it is necessary to put into practice the Maxim of St. Peter: “We must obey God rather than men.” 

-Pope Pius XII

• Always remain close to the Catholic Church, because she alone can give you true peace, since she alone possesses Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. 

• Serve the Lord with laughter.

-St. Padre Pio 

• I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first. 

• You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds. 

• A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him. 

• Nothing can happen to be that God doesn’t want. And all that He wants, no matter how bad it may appear to us, is really for the best. 

• I do not care very much what men say of me, provided that God approves of me. 

• Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal. 

-St. Thomas More

• I will go peaceably and firmly to the Catholic Church for if faith is so important to our salvation, I will seek it where true faith first began, seek it among those who received it from God Himself.

-St. Elizabeth Ann Seton 

• Here in your midst I feel completely at home; for me, living means being here with you. 

-St. Don Bosco

• Only the Catholic Church protested against the hitlerian onslaught on liberty. Up till then I had not been interested in the Church, but today I feel a great admiration for the Church, which alone has had the courage to struggle for spiritual truth and moral liberty. 

-Albert Einstein 

• Catholicism is not a lifeless set of rules and regulations. Catholicism is a lifestyle. Catholicism is a way of life designed by God to help you become all you can be.

-Matthew Kelly 

• To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you. 

-C.S. Lewis

• All my own perception of beauty both in majesty and simplicity is founded upon Our Lady. 

• Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

• “I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. “So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” 

• I’m a Roman Catholic! A devout Roman Catholic.

• All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost. 

-J.R.R. Tolkien

• Not 100 in the United States hate the Roman Catholic Church for what she actually is, but millions hate what they mistakenly think the Roman Catholic Church is. 

• Beauty on the outside never gets into the soul, but beauty of the soul reflects itself on the face. 

-Bishop Fulton J. Sheen 

• For those with faith, no evidence is necessary; for those without it, no evidence will suffice. 

-St. Thomas Aquinas

• For Jesus Christ I am prepared to suffer still more. 

-St. Maximillian Kolbe 

• The difficulty of explaining ‘why I am Catholic’ is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: That Catholicism is true.

-G.K. Chesterton 

• What does it matter if you can win a thousand battles if you cannot win against your own corrupt passions? It doesn’t matter. The real battle is with ourselves. 

• To always be close to Jesus, that’s my life plan. I’m happy to die because I’ve lived my life without wasting even a minute of it doing things that wouldn’t have pleased God.

• The only thing we have to ask God for, in prayer, is the desire to be holy.

-St. Carlo Acutis

• If you follow the will of God, you know that in spite of all the terrible things that happen to you, you will never lose a final refuge. You know that the foundation of the world is love, so that even when no human being can or will help you, you may go on, trusting in the one that loves you. 

-Pope Benedict XVI

• Remember that nothing is small in the eyes of God. Do all that you do with love. 

• Holiness consists simply in doing God’s will, and being just what God wants us to be.

-Therese of Lisieux 

• Every generation of Americans needs to know that freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

• We are not the sum of our weaknesses and failures: We are the sum of the father’s love for us and our real capacity to become the image of his son. 

• Do not forget that true love sets no conditions; it does not calculate or complain, but simply loves. 

• Catholic education aims not only communicate facts but also to transmit a coherent, comprehensive vision of life, in the conviction that the truths contained in that vision liberate students in the most profound meaning of human freedom. 

• Do not be afraid to take a chance on peace, to teach peace, to live peace…Peace will be the last word of history. 

-Pope John Paul II

• It makes no difference whether they be Catholics, Orthodox, Copts or Protestants. They are Christians! Their blood is one and the same. Their blood confesses Christ. 

-Pope Francis 

• To be just, it is not enough to refrain from injustice. One must go further and refuse to play its game, substituting love for self-interest as the driving force of society. 

-Pedro Arrupe, S.J. 

• How much would you have to hate somebody to believe that everlasting is possible and not tell them about it.