Many / One
A database of 11,000+ illuminated guiding quotations in 40 categories from 600+ inspired books by our most brilliant and influential authors.
Compiled by JoAnn Kite
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"God's very being is love."
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"God tirelessly calls each person to that mysterious encounter known as prayer."
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"By deviating from the moral law man violates his own freedom, becomes imprisoned within himself, disrupts neighborly fellowship and rebels against divine truth."
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"By virtue of his soul and his spiritual powers of intellect and will, man is endowed with freedom, an outstanding manifestation of the divine image."
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"The goal of a virtuous life is to become like God."
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"Deep within his conscience man discovers a law which he has not laid upon himself but which he must obey. Its voice, ever calling him to love and to do what is good and to avoid evil, sounds in his heart at the right moment….For man has in his heart a law inscribed by God….His conscience is man's most secret core and his sanctuary. There he is alone with God whose voice echoes in his depths."
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"If God is not one, he is not God." Tertullian, Adv. Marc., 1, 3, 5
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"A society is a group of persons bound together organically by a principle of unity that goes beyond each one of them."
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"The Word of God and his Breath are at the origin of the being and life of every creature."
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"Man is created with free will and is master over his acts."
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"God's parental tenderness can be expressed by the image of motherhood, which emphasizes God's immanence, the intimacy between Creator and creature."
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"God calls each one by name. (cf. Isaiah 43:1)"
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"Every human life, from the moment of conception until death, is sacred because the human person has been willed for its own sake in the image and likeness of the living and holy God."
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"God gave himself to us through his Spirit. By the participation of the Spirit, we become communicants in the divine nature." St. Athanasius, Ep. Serap. 1, 24
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"The One is the source of every blessing."
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"All religions bear witness to man's essential search for God."
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"The confession of God's oneness, which has its roots in the divine revelation of the Old Covenant, is inseparable from the profession of God's existence and is equally fundamental."
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"We can name God by taking his creatures' perfections as our starting point, 'for from the greatness and beauty of created things comes a corresponding perception of their Creator'. (Wisdom 13:5)"
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"God is master of history, governing hearts and events in keeping with his will."
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"Man's vocation is to make God manifest by acting in conformity with His creation 'in the image and likeness of God'."
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"Each creature possesses its own particular goodness and perfection….Each of the various creatures, willed in its own being, reflects in its own way a ray of God's infinite wisdom and goodness."
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