Catherine Doherty Quotes

Religious order founder; Servant of God (1896–1985)

Catherine de Hueck Doherty (née Ekaterina Fyodorovna Kolyschkina; 15 August 1896 – 14 December 1985) was a Catholic social activist, author, and foundress of the Madonna House Apostolate.

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Native Name: Екатерина Фёдоровна Колышкина

Alternative Names: Ekaterina Fyodorovna Kolyschkine de Hueck Doherty • Catherine de Hueck • Catherine de Hueck Doherty

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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.

Pain is the kiss of Christ.

What you do matters — but not much. What you are matters tremendously.

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

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

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.

Everybody in this pragmatic, cerebral society always wants to put himself first, and this cannot be done. God doesn't want me to do it. God wants me to be third, never first. God comes first, my neighbor second, and I am third!