Catholic Quotes

For years I had been disillusioned by the Church of England's compromising on everything. The Catholic Church doesn't care if something is unpopular.

[The Catholic religion] was something I carried with me, never forgot, brought into my music. And it's been in my music ever since.

A Roman Catholic worships a god who speaks through the Pope, while a Baptist worships a god who does not. They cannot be worshipping the same god.

I have met many Roman Catholic theologians who will emphasize as much as any good Protestant preacher that everything comes from the love and grace of God.

[Non-Catholic Christians are] in a gravely deficient situation in comparison with those who, in the [Roman Catholic] church, have the fullness of the means of salvation.

The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do.

There were many reasons we broke up. There was a religious difference: I'm a Catholic, and she's the devil.

I'm a Catholic of the New Testament, I'm not a Catholic of the hierarchy.

Persecution shows who is a hireling, and who a true pastor.

I'm sorry if any of you are Catholic. I'm not sorry if you're offended, I'm actually just sorry by the fact that you're Catholic.

I know many Catholics love God with all their heart. I have genuine respect for anyone who truly has given their life to Christ. We read about Mother Teresa and what a wonderful example she was.

I am who I am: an Irish Catholic kid, working class from Long Island. And I made it big.

And the associated danger for the identity of Europe cannot be ignored out of a wrongly understood sense of respect... The Catholic side sees this clearly and says as much.

For a Catholic kid in parochial school, the only way to survive the beatings - by classmates, not the nuns - was to be the funny guy.

I am a reformed Catholic. I'm a Buddhist in other words.

I have an enormous family because I'm from Montreal and my family's Catholic, so my dad has eight siblings and they all have kids and we all grew up in the same property on weekends and summers.

I had an Irish Catholic education. Horrible nuns, vindictive and cruel.

I did a lot of strange things. But I am a bad Catholic that's for sure. Although I think it's difficult to believe in evil.

How anyone can remain a Catholic - I mean who has ever been aroused to think, and is not biased by the partialities of childish years - after seeing Catholicism here in Italy I cannot conceive.

Well, I think that Catholicism's basic foundation of faith is personal conscience. I think it's between you and God, not you and the Church.

I'm Catholic and Mum taught me the comfort that you can get from going to church. But I'm an a la carte Catholic. I love all the pomp and ceremony of it.

Growing up in a small town, in the Midwest, and Catholic: Those are sort of three layers of repression.

I want to give moral relativism the good spanking it deserves.

Man's life comes from God: it is his image and imprint, as sharing in his breath of life. God therefore is the sole Lord of this life: Man cannot do with it as he wills.

In Christ and through Christ man has acquired full awareness of his dignity, of the heights to which he is raised, of the surpassing worth of his own humanity, and of the meaning of his existence.

I do disapprove very strongly of labelling children, especially young children, as something like 'Catholic children' or 'Protestant children' or 'Islamic children.'

I'm an Episcopal, which is Catholic Lite. It's like same religion, half the guilt.

Beware of bad Catholics.

The true religion has always been one from the beginning, and will always be the same.

Wicked sons do not have the Holy Ghost in the same way as do beloved sons, and yet they do have Baptism. So, too, heretics do not have the Church as Catholics have, even though they have Baptism.

I think being a Catholic made me a better person. It taught me how to choose good over evil, and how to be a more caring human being.

There is no point when all the material benefits of the world add up to a general state of happiness. It is the Great Misconception.

If you are willing to bear serenely the trial of being displeasing to yourself, then you will be for Jesus a pleasant place of shelter.

You see my next door neighbour worships exhaust pipes, he's a catholic converter.

The National Catholic Register's coverage of the Church universal, and the Church in our own country, is splendid.

[The Catholic convent] had been like the Valley of the Shadow of Death, and there are white scars on my soul, where ignorance and superstition burnt me with their hell fire in those stifling days.

I'm a good Catholic boy.

Catholic Church reasserts its moral authority on contraception: If God believed in birth control, altar boys would have a uterus.

Going to Catholic school was what fueled me into comedy. The nuns were so brutal so I used to try to make my friends laugh.

The Mafia has higher standards than the Catholic Church hierachy because if their members were "raping children, they'd off them."

I'm a Roman Catholic! A devout Roman Catholic.

What church I go to on Sunday, what dogma of the Catholic Church I believe in, is my business; and whatever faith any other American has is his business.

I'm Roman Catholic and I believe very strongly in the power of prayer.

I have a lot of mental scars from being brought up Catholic and being sent to Catholic school for 13 years!

I got in trouble in Catholic school for rolling the waist of my skirt down.

I grew up in a very Catholic family. Up until puberty, I would go to a Catholic church every week.

At 18, I guarded the parking lot at the Catholic Church bingos. Now my dad made sure I could take care of myself. I carried a Smith and Wesson 357 Magnum .

My favorite Catholic holiday is Easter. For those of you that don't know, Easter is the day we celebrate Jesus rising from the grave and coming back to Earth as a rabbit that hides colored eggs.

It was generally believed that Catholics were not interested in arts and science graduate schools. They weren't going to be intellectuals. And so I put the theses to the test. And they all collapsed.

I was brought up as a Catholic. I've got A-level guilt.