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“The Catholic wisdom of the people... provides reasons for joy and humor even in the midst of a very hard life.”
― The Catholic Church, Catechism of the Catholic Church: Complete and Updated

“Sin is a personal act. Moreover, we have a responsibility for the sins committed by others when we cooperate in them: by participating directly and voluntarily in them; by ordering, advising, praising, or approving them; by not disclosing or not hindering them when we have an obligation to do so; by protecting evil-doers. [1868]”
― Catholic Church, Catechism of the Catholic Church: Complete and Updated

“1883. ...The teaching of the Church has elaborated the principle of subsidiarity, according to which "a community of a higher order should not interfere in the internal life of a community of a lower order, depriving the latter of its functions, but rather should support it in case of need and help to co-ordinate its activity with the activities of the rest of society, always with a view to the common good.”
― Catholic Church, Catechism of the Catholic Church: Complete and Updated

“Pray as if everything depended on God and work as if everything depended on you.”
― The Catholic Church, Catechism of the Catholic Church

“In the words of St. Augustine, “I believe, in order to understand; and I understand, the better to believe.”
― The Catholic Church, Catechism of the Catholic Church

“Immigrants are obliged to respect with gratitude the material and spiritual heritage of the country that receives them, to obey its laws and to assist in carrying civic burdens.”
― The Catholic Church, Catechism of the Catholic Church

“Healing infirmities or forgiving sins, Jesus always responds to a prayer offered in faith: “Your faith has made you well; go in peace.”
― Libreria Editrice Vaticana, Catechism of the Catholic Church

“  Man and woman were made “for each other”—not that God left them half-made and incomplete: he created them to be a communion of persons,”
― The Catholic Church, Catechism of the Catholic Church: Complete and Updated

“God, infinitely perfect and blessed in himself, in a plan of sheer goodness freely created man to make him share in his own blessed life.”
― The Catholic Church, Catechism of the Catholic Church

“1877. The vocation of humanity is to show forth the image of God and to be transformed into the image of the Father's only Son. This vocation takes a personal form since each of us is called to enter into the divine beatitude; it also concerns the human community as a whole.”
― Catholic Church, Catechism of the Catholic Church: Complete and Updated

“1862 ...although we can judge that an act is in itself a grave offense, we must entrust judgment of persons to the justice and mercy of God.”
― Catholic Church, Catechism of the Catholic Church: Complete and Updated

“The Liturgy itself is prayer; the confession of faith finds its proper place in the celebration of worship.”
― The Catholic Church, Catechism of the Catholic Church: Complete and Updated

“The fruits of charity are joy, peace, and mercy; charity demands beneficence and fraternal correction; it 2540    is benevolence; it fosters reciprocity and remains disinterested and generous; it is friendship and communion:”
― The Catholic Church, Catechism of the Catholic Church

“1951. Law is a rule of conduct enacted by competent authority for the sake of the common good. The moral law presupposes the rational order, established among creatures for their good and to serve their final end, by the power, wisdom, and goodness of the Creator. All law finds its first and ultimate truth in the eternal law. Law is declared and established by reason as a participation in the providence of the living God, Creator and Redeemer of all.”
― The Catholic Church, Catechism of the Catholic Church: Complete and Updated

“When I am completely united to you, there will be no more sorrow or trials; entirely full of you, my life will be complete” (St. Augustine,”
― The Catholic Church, Catechism of the Catholic Church: Complete and Updated

“To live, grow, and persevere in the faith until the end we must nourish it with the word of God; we must beg the Lord to increase our faith;45 it must be “working through charity,” abounding in hope, and rooted in the faith of the Church.46 (2089, 1037, 2016, 2573, 2849)”
― Libreria Editrice Vaticana, Catechism of the Catholic Church

“The differences among persons belong to God’s plan, who wills that we should need one another. These differences should encourage charity.”
― The Catholic Church, Catechism of the Catholic Church

“God is to be loved above all things, and whatever separates us from God is therefore to be hated above all things.”
― The Catholic Church, Catechism of the Catholic Church: Trent Edition

“Make us love and obey you so that the works of our hands may always display what your hands have done, until we gaze upon the beauty of your face.”
― The Catholic Church, The Liturgy of The Hours - Leather

“God, who alone made heaven and earth, can alone impart true 32    knowledge of every created thing in relation to himself.34”
― The Catholic Church, Catechism of the Catholic Church

“To make holy the Name of God ... is to ask — with our lives and our prayers — that the Name of God be known and blessed by every man.”
― Catholic Church, Compendium : Catechism of the Catholic Church

“It is in fact the Church that believes: and thus by the grace of the Holy Spirit precedes, engenders and nourishes the faith of each Christian.”
― Catholic Church, Compendium : Catechism of the Catholic Church

“The first man was unimpaired and ordered in his whole being because he was free from the triple concupiscence254 that subjugates him to the pleasures of the senses, covetousness for earthly goods, and self-assertion, contrary to the dictates of reason. 2514”
― The Vatican, Catechism of the Catholic Church

“Goods of production—material or immaterial—such as land, factories, practical or artistic skills, oblige their possessors to employ them in ways that will benefit the greatest number. Those who hold goods for use and consumption should use them with moderation, reserving the better part for guests, for the sick and the poor.”
― Libreria Editrice Vaticana, Catechism of the Catholic Church

“But as our Lord and Saviour has not only declared, but has also proved by His own example, that the Law and the Prophets depend on love, and as, according to the Apostle, charity is the end of the commandment, and the fulfilment of the law, it is unquestionably a chief duty of the pastor to use the utmost diligence to excite the faithful to a love of the infinite goodness of God towards us, that, burning with a sort of divine ardour, they may be powerfully attracted to the supreme and all-perfect good, to adhere to which is true and solid happiness, as is fully experienced by him who can say with the Prophet: What have I in heaven? and besides thee what do I desire upon earth? This, assuredly, is that more excellent way pointed out by the Apostle when he sums up all his doctrines and instructions in charity, which never falleth away. For whatever is proposed by the pastor, whether it be the exercise of faith, of hope, or of some moral virtue, the love of our Lord should at the same time be so strongly insisted upon as to show clearly that all the works of perfect Christian virtue can have no other origin, no other end than divine love.”
― The Catholic Church, Catechism of the Catholic Church: Trent Edition

“By advancing and progressing “from glory to glory,” the light of the Trinity will shine in ever more brilliant rays.”
― The Catholic Church, Catechism of the Catholic Church

“The supreme being must be unique, without equal… If God is not one, he is not God’ (Tertullian, Adv. Marc, 1, 5, 3: PL 2, 274).”
― The Vatican, Catechism of the Catholic Church

“The whole concern of doctrine and its teaching must be directed to the love that never ends.”
― The Catholic Church, The Catechism of the Catholic Church: A catholic's guide

“The desire for God is written in the human heart, because man is created by God and for God; and God never ceases to draw man to himself.”
― The Catholic Church, Catechism of the Catholic Church: Complete and Updated

“No one—no individual and no community—can proclaim the Gospel to himself: “Faith comes from what is heard.”
― The Catholic Church, Catechism of the Catholic Church