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25 Gorgeous Catholic Quotes- For Any Occasion

  • Writer: Anna Hoffman
    Anna Hoffman
  • Jul 5
  • 4 min read

Have you ever sat at the table, a blank card in front of you, and nothing comes to mind? I have been there. So. Many. Times. So after countless times endlessly searching for the best quotes, here are some of my absolute favourites that I go to now. So whether you’ll attend a wedding soon, go to a baptism, or celebrate someone’s birthday, I hope you find these quotes as perfect for the card as I do!


Wedding/Anniversary/Love


  • “When a husband and wife are united in marriage they no longer seem like something earthly, but rather like the image of God himself.” -St. John Chrysostom 


  • “Love alone brings a human being to full awareness of personal existence. For it is in love alone that man finds room enough to be what he is.” -Dietrich von Hildebrand


  • “There is no greater force against evil in the world than the love of a man and woman in marriage. After the Holy Eucharist, it has a power beyond anything that we can imagine.” -Cardinal Raymond Burke


  • “I lay my face against the Beloved's face. Everything fell away and I left myself behind, abandoning my cares among the lilies, forgotten.” -Saint John of the Cross


Birthday


  • “The first fact about the celebration of a birthday is that it is a way of affirming defiantly, and even flamboyantly, that it is a good thing to be alive.” -G.K. Chesterton


  • “Know that you have been created for the glory of God and your own eternal salvation.  This is your goal; this is the center of your life; this is the treasure of your heart.” -St. Robert Bellarmine


Encouragement


  • “Unfurl the sails, and let God steer us where He will.” -St. Bede the Venerable


  • “Start being brave about everything, driving out darkness and spreading light as well. Don’t look at your weakness, but realize that in Christ crucified you can do everything.” -St. Catherine of Siena


  • “The Lord has turned all our sunsets into sunrise.” -St. Clement


  • “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 hearts your most genuine choices, the choices that others try to stifle.” -St. John Paul II


Death/Loss/Difficult Time


  • “In difficult moments I will fix my gaze upon the silent heart of Jesus, stretched upon the cross, and from the exploding flames of His merciful Heart, will flow down upon me power and strength to keep fighting.” -St. Faustina


  • “Prayer is the place of refuge for every worry, a foundation for cheerfulness, a source of constant happiness, a protection against sadness.” -St. John Chrysostom


  • “There is no cross to bear that Christ has not already born for us, and does not now bear with us.” -St. John Paul II


  • “If God created shadows, it was to better emphasize the light.” -St. John XXIII


  • “Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.” -St. John XXIII


  • “Pray, hope and don’t worry. Worry is useless. God is merciful and will hear your prayer. Prayer is the best weapon we have; it is the key to God’s heart.” -St. Padre Pio


  • “We may not understand His Will for us in time, but in eternity the veil will be drawn and we shall see that He acted only for our happiness.” -St. Rose Philippine Duchesne


Baptism


  • “We who have been reborn through the sacrament of baptism experience intense joy when we feel within us the first stirrings of the Holy Spirit.” -St. Hilary, bishop


  • “Through the sacrament of baptism you have become a temple of the Holy Spirit.” -St. Leo the Great


  • “He who is reborn in baptism is a new man.” -St. Peter Damian


Gratitude


  • “Gratitude is the memory of the heart.” -St. Mary MacKillop


  • “I saw that God would provide the means, would guide me on the way, and would provide a friend to do for me what I could not do myself.” -St. Mary MacKillop


Celebration


  • “May God be praised for all.” -St. Mary MacKillop


  • “Let us be joyful and thank God.” -St. Mary MacKillop


  • “God made us for joy.” -St. Pope John Paul II


  • "Joy is prayer–Joy is strength–Joy is love–Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls…. A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love. Never let anything so fill you with sorrow as to make you forget the joy of the Christ risen.” -St. Mother Teresa of Calcutta



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