Catherine Doherty Quotes

We need to return to the simplicity that God is love.

Man is in need if a symbolical life- badly in need. We only live banal, ordinary, rational or irrational things- but we have no symbolic life. Where do we live symbolically? Nowhere except where we participate in the ritual of life

The highest point at which human life and art meet is in the ordinary. To look down on the ordinary is to despise what you can't have. Show me a man who fears being ordinary, and I'll show you a man who is not yet a man.

It will never be about our love for God. It will always be about His magnificent love for us.

God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that he may love and perfect them.

Wise people are in want of nothing, and yet need many things. On the other hand, nothing is needed by fools, for they do not understand how to use anything, but are in want of everything.

The sufferings endured for God are the greatest proof of our love for Him.

Go on loving what is good, simple, and ordinary.

God loves us NOT because we're lovable, because He is love. Not because He needs to receive, because He delights to give.

God is the only true Giver, and He needs nothing from us. But still He wants us. He gave us life so that we might seek and know Him.

Those who want much, are always much in need; happy the man to whom God gives with a sparing hand what is sufficient for his wants.

A person who is obsessed is characterized by committed, settled, passionate love for God, above and before every other thing and every other being.

The divine love of God turns ordinary acts into extraordinary service.

If we knew how much He loves us, we should be always ready to receive equally and with indifference from His hand the sweet and the bitter; all would please that came from Him.

I want a simple, ordinary life . . . like humans enjoy.

The ordinary is the divine.

An ordinary life examined closely reveals itself to be exquisite and complicated and exceptional, somehow managing to be both heroic and plain.

What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.

We just can't love without God. God wants for us want we want for ourselves. These basic things are not that hard to grasp. We just have to have faith, and faith is a gift. We just need to accept it.

Love is the overflow of joy in God that meets the needs of others.

Zen is a totally different kind of religion. It brings humanness to religion. It is not bothered about anything superhuman; its whole concern is how to make ordinary life a blessing.

The simplest and most effective way to sanctity is to disappear into the background of ordinary every day routine.

Our Heavenly Father can appreciate our love for Him by how well we serve Him and how well we serve our fellowmen.

The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.