Catherine Doherty: Quotes about God

Catherine Doherty was Religious order founder; Servant of God. Explore interesting quotes on god.
Catherine Doherty: 58   quotes 1   like

“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)

Love , God , Change , Time

“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

God , Tear , Waiting

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

Catherine Doherty

Source: Poustinia (1975), Ch. 5

God

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

Catherine Doherty

The Gospel Without Compromise (1976)

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)

Hunger , God , Peace , Lovers

“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)

God , Soul , Indifference

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

Catherine Doherty

Source: Poustinia (1975), Ch. 12

God , Faith

“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)

God , Idea

“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)

God

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

Catherine Doherty

Sobornost (1977)

Love , God , Personality