Catherine Doherty (1896 – 1985)
Catholic social activist, author, and foundress of the Madonna House Apostolate.
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You live between two Masses. You exist in the present moment.
What binds us together is love, and only love. For love is a Person. Love is God.
Love... love... love, never counting the cost.
Faith sees God's face in every human face.
Real zeal is standing still and letting God be a bonfire in you.
Pain is the kiss of Christ.
Preach the Gospel with your life — without compromise!
With God, every moment is the moment of beginning again.
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.
We do not have to wait for the hereafter — it is now that we are one with Christ.
Purity of heart is love for the weak who constantly fall.
A saint is a sinner who loves; it's that simple!
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.
Lord, give bread to the hungry, and hunger for you to those who have bread.
We do not go to mission lands to 'bring Jesus Christ' as much as to uncover him where he already is.
To pass through the door that leads to God's kingdom, we must go down on our knees.
What you do matters — but not much. What you are matters tremendously.
Lord, give me the heart of a child, and the awesome courage to live it out as an adult.
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