Catherine Doherty Quotes

With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing.

We need to be poor! Let us live an ordinary life, but, beloved, let us live it with a passionate love for God. Become a mystery. Stretch one hand out to God, the other to your neighbour. Be cruciform. … Christ’s cross will be our revolution and it will be a revolution of love!

I go to my past in order to discern the future.

Faith walks simply, childlike, between the darkness of human life and the hope of what is to come.

Preach the Gospel with your life — without compromise!

Listen to God's speech in his wondrous, terrible, gentle, loving, all-embracing silence.

Faith sees God's face in every human face.

Lord, give me the heart of a child, and the awesome courage to live it out as an adult.

It is so important for us to have faith, trust, confidence in one another. It is the only way we can communicate. Without faith there is no communication, there is no love, or if there was a little love it will die without hope, trust, and confidence. Even if it doesn't die right away, it will be so ill, so weak, and so tired that communication will be miserable as well.

Acquire inner peace and a multitude will find their salvation near you.

What you do matters — but not much. What you are matters tremendously.

Faith is fudamentally a kind of folly.

True silence is the speech of lovers.

With God, every moment is the moment of beginning again.

Faith brings into our lives such freedom, such love, such peace, and such joy that there are no words in any language that can explain it. You have to have it in order to know it. You have to experience it in order to understand it. Faith liberates. It liberates love and hope. If I am free to love and free to hope, what more do I want of life?

Every meal should be prepared with love and eaten in peace, because its purpose is to strengthen us for the service of Love.

She who received the seed of eternal glory Now dispenses grace, the seed of glory-to-come. My womb was the chalice of the impenetration of God That became the Incarnation of God and man

True silence is a garden enclosed, where alone the soul can meet its God.

Faith is contagious when we show it to one another.

Faith considers that its precariousness and its finiteness are but the womb in which it abides, moving toward the plenitude and fullness of the eternity which it desires and believes in and which revelation opens to it.