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Famous Catherine Doherty Quotes

“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

Dear Parents (1997)

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

Catherine Doherty

Fragments of My Life (1979)

“Identification [with the other] is difficult but precious. It involves doing violence to yourself. Yet Scripture says that "heaven is taken by violence" to oneself [Luke 16:16]. To identify oneself with the other is to love him beyond words, a total giving of oneself in truth.”

Catherine Doherty

"Living the Mandate", p. 36
Unfinished Pilgrimage (1995)

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

Catherine Doherty

Love One Another (audio cassette, 2002)

“What is the market place? Is it the secular city? Is it the factual market place, that is to say the urban inner city? Is it suburbia where all the supermarkets are? No. The market place is simply the soul of man. It is the place where man trades his soul either to God or to the devil or to the 'in between', with indifference, tepidity and complacency.”

Catherine Doherty

"Living the Mandate", p. 40
The last part of the quote, about those who trade their souls to the 'in between', alludes to Rev 3:15-16.
Unfinished Pilgrimage (1995)

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

Catherine Doherty

The Gospel Without Compromise (1976)

Catherine Doherty Quotes about love

“A saint is a sinner who loves; it's that simple!”

Catherine Doherty

Attributed to Catherine Doherty in Inflamed by Love by Jean Fox
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“Loving does not necessarily mean liking. But it still is loving, yes — totally, completely, utterly. Take the key of wisdom and unlock your own heart. Then let people in one by one. Listen to them, with full attention, with all your mind, heart, body and soul, unto exhaustion. And look! — the exhaustion will be lifted, and you will be able to listen still more. Yes, love must be communicated person to person; otherwise it will not be effective.”

Catherine Doherty

Molchanie (1982)

“True silence is the speech of lovers. For only love knows its beauty, completeness and utter joy.”

Catherine Doherty

Source: Poustinia (1975), Ch. 1

“Purity of heart is love for the weak who constantly fall.”

Catherine Doherty

Source: Poustinia (1975), Ch. 12

“Arise, go! Sell all you possess. Give it directly, personally to the poor. Take up My cross (their cross) and follow Me, going to the poor, being poor, being one with them, one with Me.Little, be always little, simple, poor, childlike.Preach the Gospel with your life, without compromise. Listen to the Spirit; He will lead you.Do little things exceedingly well for love of Me.Love, love, love, never counting the cost.Go into the market place and stay with Me. Pray, fast. Pray always: fast.Be hidden. Be a light to your neighbor's feet. Go without fears into the depth of men's hearts. I shall be with you.Pray always. I will be your rest.”

Catherine Doherty

"The Little Mandate" (c. early 1930s)

“What binds us together is love, and only love. For love is a Person. Love is God.”

Catherine Doherty

Sobornost (1977)

Catherine Doherty Quotes about God

“When we reach the silver sands and plunge into the great sea of God's silence, we begin to understand that he alone is God — Lover, Friend, the totality of gentleness, peace and rest. He calls us and we cannot resist that call. We have to be alone with him. It is a necessity, it is a hunger. It has been said that prayer is a hunger. But this Christ walks with loneliness and rejection, and so must we.”

Catherine Doherty

Molchanie (1982)

“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

Source: Poustinia (1975), Ch. 3

“Real zeal is standing still and letting God be a bonfire in you.”

Catherine Doherty

Source: Poustinia (1975), Ch. 5

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

Catherine Doherty

Soul of My Soul: Reflections from a Life of Prayer (1985)

“To be simple is to accept the essence of the message and not try to twist it or adapt it to our own ideas. To be simple we must desire to remain in the image of God. We must not be so complex that we make God into our image! Simplicity is dying to self, an emptying.”

Catherine Doherty

"For This I Have Laid Down My Life", p. 12
Unfinished Pilgrimage (1995)

“Faith sees God's face in every human face.”

Catherine Doherty

Source: Poustinia (1975), Ch. 12