quotes

• Bible: '"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."'
• Bible: '"Then God said, 'Let there be light' and there was light."'
• Bible: '"God created humankind in his own image."'
• Bible: '"The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to till it and keep it."'
• Bible: '"Then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed … into his nostrils the breath of life."'
• Bible: '"You may freely eat from any tree in the garden …"'
• Gaudium et Spes 36: '"Methodical investigation carried out in a genuinely scientific manner ... never truly conflicts with faith"'
• Youcat: '"The Bible is not meant to convey precise historical information or scientific findings to us."'
• Dei Verbum: '"The books of Scripture must be acknowledged as teaching solidly, faithfully and without error."'
• Youcat: '"If people are to do good and avoid evil, certainty about what is good and evil must be inscribed within them. In fact there is such a moral law … 'natural' to men and can be known … by every person by reason."'
• Pope Francis: '"The Big Bang ...does not contradict the divine act of creating, but rather requires it."'
• Pope Francis: '"Everyone's talents and involvement are needed to redress the damage caused by human abuse of God's creation."'
• Pope Francis: '"The world is a gift which we have freely received and must share with others."'
• Luke 1: '"You will conceive and bear a son, and you will name him Jesus. He will do great things for you and will be called 'Son of the Most High'."'
• Matthew 1: '"Look, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son and they shall name him Emmanuel," which means, "God is with us."'
• John 1: '"In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God"'
• John 1: '"The Word was God and the Word became flesh and lived among us"'
• Mark 8: '"Then he (Jesus) began to teach them that the Son of Man must undergo great suffering ... and be killed and after three days rise again."'
• Mark 14: '"Are you the Messiah, the Son of Blessed One?' Jesus said 'I am'"'
• Catechism: '"Whoever venerates an image venerates the person portrayed in it'"'
• Bible: '"(Jesus) is the image of the invisible God"'
• St Irenaeus: '"[He] revealed God to men and presented men to God"'
• Dei Verbum: '"For He sent His Son … so that He might dwell among men and tell them the innermost being of God"'
• Verbum Domini: '"The Son himself is the Word, the Logos; the eternal word become small, small enough to fit into a manger"'
• Luke 1:44: '"For as soon as I heard the sound of your greeting, the child in my womb leapt for joy."'
• Sacrosanctum Concillium: '"Sacred music … adds delight to prayer, fosters unity and confers greater solemnity upon the sacred rites."'
• Deuteronomy: '"The Lord is our God, the Lord alone."'
• Matthew 3:17: '"This is my Son, the beloved, with whom I am well pleased"'
• Galatians: '"You are children, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, 'Abba! Father!"'
• Bible: '"Those who love God must love their brothers and sisters also"'
• Bible: '"Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit"'
• Youcat: '"Prayer is turning the heart toward God. When a person prays, he enters into a living relationship with God."'
• Sacrosanctum Concillium: 'Plainchant is 'specially suited to the Roman liturgy''
• Youcat: '"Where words are not enough to praise God, music comes to our aid"'
• Deus Caritas Est: '"The entire activity of the Church is an expression of a love that seeks the integral good of man"'
• St Augustine: '"True love is: a trinity of lover, beloved and the love that binds them together"'
• Bible: '"All of us who were baptised into Christ Jesus were baptised into his death … in order to live a new life."'
• Bible: '"For where two or three are gathered in my name, I am there among them."'
• Youcat: '"In God's house we gather together to pray in common or alone".'
• Bible: '"Jesus humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death."'