Catherine Doherty Quotes

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You live between two Masses. You exist in the present moment.

Catherine Doherty
The duty of the moment is what you should be doing at any given time, in whatever place God has put you. You may not have Christ in a homeless person at your door, but you may have a little child. If you have a child, your duty of the moment may be to change a dirty diaper. So you do it. But you don't just change that diaper, you change it to the best of your ability, with great love for both God and that child.... There are all kinds of good Catholic things you can do, but whatever they are, you have to realize that there is always the duty of the moment to be done. And it must be done, because the duty of the moment is the duty of God.

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

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

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

Catherine Doherty
What binds us together is love, and only love. For love is a Person. Love is God.

Catherine Doherty
To pass through the door that leads to God's kingdom, we must go down on our knees.

Catherine Doherty
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.

Catherine Doherty
Preach the Gospel with your life — without compromise!

Catherine Doherty
Faith allows us to enter peacefully into the dark night which faces everyone of us at one time or another.

Catherine Doherty
Purity of heart is love for the weak who constantly fall.

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

Catherine Doherty
Lord, give bread to the hungry, and hunger for you to those who have bread.

Catherine Doherty
Real zeal is standing still and letting God be a bonfire in you.

Catherine Doherty
We do not have to wait for the hereafter — it is now that we are one with Christ.

Catherine Doherty
The stranger is simply a friend I haven't met yet.

Catherine Doherty
We do not go to mission lands to 'bring Jesus Christ' as much as to uncover him where he already is.

Catherine Doherty
God reveals himself to those who wait for that revelation, and who don't try to tear at the hem of a mystery, forcing disclosure.

Catherine Doherty