Catholic Quotes
I mean, I went to a Catholic boys school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me.
Being raised Catholic myself, I think people who are Catholic tend to carry a lot of guilt. It's almost a joke.
I was raised a Catholic. But I am not religious. In my work, I am interested in real flesh and blood.
In search of a complete education with the ideals of trust, faith, understanding and compassion, many families are turning to the structure, discipline and academic standards of Catholic schools.
I didn't go to Catholic school but I had a tough teacher, a tough math teacher.I remember everything that guy taught me. I really do.
Growing up, I had a front row seat to seeing two people work really hard. My dad scrubbed toilets at a private Catholic school for a while and that was to help me get through school.
Unless we believe and see Jesus in the appearance of bread on the altar, we will not be able to see him in the distressing disguise of the poor.
People are hungry for God. Do you see that? Quite often we look but do not see. We are all passing through this world. We need to open our eyes and see.
I grew up as a Catholic, and there was so much that was beautiful there, and also so much that was troubling. The whole patriarchal thing, the whole male-dominated approach, really bothered me.
I'm a Catholic, but I used to love going to Vacation Bible School with my fundamentalist friends.
I'm eradicating the word Protestant even out of my vocabulary. .. I'm protesting anything. .. it's time for Catholics and non-Catholics to come together as one in the Spirit and one in the Lord.
I am saying voluntarily that I have sung for almost every religious group in the country, from Jewish and Catholic, and Presbyterian and Holy Rollers and Revival Churches.
In 1953 there were two ways for an Irish Catholic boy to impress his parents: become a priest or attend Notre Dame.
I had to have some balls to be Irish Catholic in South London. Most of that time I spent fighting.
In the polls, over 80% support the right to die and have done for the last 25 years. Even 80% of practising Catholics and Protestants support it, plus 76% of Church Times readers.
God is not solitude, but perfect communion. For this reason the human person, the image of God, realizes himself or herself in love, which is a sincere gift of self.
Grant that we may be one flock and one shepherd! Do not allow your net to be torn, help us to be servants of unity!
The Catholic tradition maintains that the objective norms governing right action are accessible to reason, prescinding from the content of revelation.
Some people believe that - pardon my language - in order to be good Catholics, we should be like rabbits. No.
I sincerely hope I can contribute to the progress there has been in relations between Jews and Catholics since the Second Vatican Council in a spirit of renewed collaboration.
You are not to be looked upon as holding the true Catholic faith if you do not teach that the faith of Rome is to be held
My parents reverted to their Catholic faith through the charismatic renewal, so I was raised charismatic.
The cultural contrast I saw between religions... Catholics have a lot of mediators, going through saints and Mary or whatever. Protestants in general say things to God directly.
I think the benefit of a Catholic childhood is your belief in visual symbols as transmitters of information and clues about life, whether it's the mystery of life or life in general.
Catholic theology believes that God gave man free will, and you can't give somebody free will and then send in a play from the sidelines.
I will not live an instant that I do not live in love. Whoever loves does all things without suffering, or, suffering, loves his suffering.
Let us return from that Table like lions breathing out fire, terrifying to the devil!
I am a Congregationalist with Catholic sensibilities. Which probably explains how I ended up in a Episcopal church.
From about the age of 5, I was aware that I didn't fit. I was the black, atheist kid in the all-white, Catholic school run by nuns. I was an anomaly.
I am simply content to find myself always imperfect, and in this I find my joy. Good deeds count as nothing, if done without love.
There being an imminent danger for the faith, prelates must be questioned, even publicly, by their subjects.
The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in His divinity, assumed our nature, so that He, made man, might make men gods.
What do you want to want to be, anyway?" "I don't know; I guess what I want to be is a good Catholic." "What you should say"--he told me--"what you should say is that you want to be a saint.
I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.
Whenever the clergy were at the elbow of the civil arm, no matter whether they were Catholic or Protestant, persecution was the result.
... how terrible is the pain of the mind and heart when the freedom of mankind is suppressed!
