"It is the love revealed to us in Christ that breaks our heart open and teaches us to listen. Our learning to love as Christ has loved us breaks down the barriers that close us off from ourselves, God, and others." Christian Meditation: Experiencing the Presence of God James Finley

QUOTES

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1			"The One is the source of every blessing." Catechism of the Catholic Church (Various)
2			"God tirelessly calls each person to that mysterious encounter known as prayer." Catechism of the Catholic Church (Various)
3			"Moral existence is a response to the Lord's loving initiative. It is the acknowledgement and homage given to God and a worship of thanksgiving. It is cooperation with the plan God pursues in history." Catechism of the Catholic Church (Various)
4			"Man's vocation is to make God manifest by acting in conformity with His creation 'in the image and likeness of God'." Catechism of the Catholic Church (Various)
5			"Created in the image of the one God and equally endowed with rational souls, all people have the same nature and the same origin….All are called to participate in the same divine beatitude: all therefore enjoy an equal dignity." Catechism of the Catholic Church (Various)
6			"A society is a group of persons bound together organically by a principle of unity that goes beyond each one of them." Catechism of the Catholic Church (Various)
7			"By deviating from the moral law man violates his own freedom, becomes imprisoned within himself, disrupts neighborly fellowship and rebels against divine truth." Catechism of the Catholic Church (Various)
8			"Every human person, created in the image of God, has the natural right to be recognized as a free and responsible being. All owe to each other this duty of respect." Catechism of the Catholic Church (Various)
9			"Human freedom is a force for growth and maturity in truth and goodness." Catechism of the Catholic Church (Various)
10			"Man is created with free will and is master over his acts." Catechism of the Catholic Church (Various)
11			"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." Catechism of the Catholic Church (Various)
12			"God calls each one by name. (cf. Isaiah 43:1)" Catechism of the Catholic Church (Various)
13			"The moral life is a spiritual worship." Catechism of the Catholic Church (Various)
14			"The goal of a virtuous life is to become like God." Catechism of the Catholic Church (Various)
15			"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." Catechism of the Catholic Church (Various)
16			"By his reason, man recognizes the voice of God which urges him to do what is good and avoid what is evil. Everyone is obliged to follow this law, which makes itself heard in conscience and is fulfilled in the love of God and of neighbor. Living a moral life bears witness to the dignity of the person." Catechism of the Catholic Church (Various)
17			"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." Catechism of the Catholic Church (Various)
18			"The Word of God and his Breath are at the origin of the being and life of every creature." Catechism of the Catholic Church (Various)
19			"To God, all moments of time are present in their immediacy." Catechism of the Catholic Church (Various)
20			"God wills the interdependence of creatures. The sun and the moon, the cedar and the little flower, the eagle and the sparrow: the spectacle of their countless diversities . . .tells us that no creature is self-sufficient. Creatures exist only in dependence on each other, to complete each other, in the service of each other." Catechism of the Catholic Church (Various)
21			"God is infinitely good and all his works are good." Catechism of the Catholic Church (Various)
22			"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." Catechism of the Catholic Church (Various)
23			"Divine providence consists of the dispositions by which God guides all his creatures with wisdom and love to their ultimate end." Catechism of the Catholic Church (Various)
24			"God is master of history, governing hearts and events in keeping with his will." Catechism of the Catholic Church (Various)
25			"God who created everything also rules everything….God's power is loving." Catechism of the Catholic Church (Various)
26			"From the beginning until the end of time the whole of God's work is a blessing. From the liturgical poem of the first creation to the canticles of the heavenly Jerusalem, the inspired authors proclaim the plan of salvation as one vast divine blessing." Catechism of the Catholic Church (Various)
27			"Because he is the free and sovereign Creator, the first cause of all that exists, God is present to his creatures' inmost being: 'In him we live and move and have our being.' (Acts 17:28). In the words of St. Augustine, 'God is 'higher than my highest and more inward than my innermost self.' (Confessions 3, 6, 11)" Catechism of the Catholic Church (Various)
28			"God's parental tenderness can be expressed by the image of motherhood, which emphasizes God's immanence, the intimacy between Creator and creature." Catechism of the Catholic Church (Various)
29			"The revelation of the ineffable name 'I Am who Am' contains the truth that God alone IS. The Greek Septuagint translation of the Hebrew Scriptures, and following it the Church's Tradition, understood the divine name in this sense: God is the fullness of Being and of every perfection….All creatures receive all that they are and have from him; but he alone IS his very being, and he is of himself everything that he is." Catechism of the Catholic Church (Various)
30			"If God is not one, he is not God." Tertullian, Adv. Marc., 1, 3, 5 Catechism of the Catholic Church (Various)
31			"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." Catechism of the Catholic Church (Various)
32			"God's very being is love." Catechism of the Catholic Church (Various)
33			"By love, God has revealed himself and given himself to humanity. He has thus provided the definitive, superabundant answer to the questions that man asks himself about the meaning and purpose of his life." Catechism of the Catholic Church (Various)
34			"By natural reason man can know God with certanity, on the basis of his works." Catechism of the Catholic Church (Various)
35			"All religions bear witness to man's essential search for God." Catechism of the Catholic Church (Various)
36			"Man is by nature and vocation a religious being. Coming from God, going toward God, man lives a fully human life only if he freely lives by his bond with God." Catechism of the Catholic Church (Various)
37			"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 Catechism of the Catholic Church (Various)
38			"When he listens to the message of creation and to the voice of conscience, man can arrive at certainty about the existence of God, the cause and end of everything." Catechism of the Catholic Church (Various)
39			"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)" Catechism of the Catholic Church (Various)
40			"Question the beauty of the earth, question the beauty of the sea, question the beauty of the air diffusing itself, question the beauty of the sky….question all these realities. All respond: 'See, we are beautiful.' Their beauty is a profession. These beauties are subject to change. Who made them if not the Beautiful One who is not subject to change? St. Augustine, Sermo 241, 2 Catechism of the Catholic Church (Various)
41			"The dignity of man rests above all on the fact that he is called to communion with God. This invitation to converse with God is addressed to man as soon as he comes into being….God has created him through love, and through love continues to hold him in existence." Vatical Council II, 'Gaudium et spes', 19, 1 Catechism of the Catholic Church (Various)
42			"At every time and in every place, God draws close to man." Catechism of the Catholic Church (Various)