Catholic Quotes

I guess the biggest issue my husband and I are going to have is how do we raise the baby... because he's Jewish and I'm Protestant and the baby's father is Catholic.

Unfortunately, when someone asks me for a favor, I cant say no. Because of my upbringing - my Catholic guilt - if I dont do it, it plagues me.

I think the people can bash Catholics because they know Catholics won't kill them. Quite frankly, there's some religions out there, you bash and they're going to kill you.

Protestants do not very often disagree with what Catholics believe, but they do very often disagree with what they think Catholics believe.

Coffee is not as necessary to ministers of the reformed faith as to Catholic priests. The latter are not allowed to marry, and coffee is said to induce chastity.

It's in our blind trust that love will find us, just like it has before.

Never forget that Hitler was a Catholic.

Catholic school gave me the tools to reject the very religion they wanted me to have. They taught me how to think for myself and to be independent.

I'm very happy and being raised Catholic I assume it will end tomorrow. The rug will be pulled out from under me and someone will say, now go to your real job, shoveling poop somewhere.

I learned a lot from both, initially Jewish and Muslim theologians that had been missing, perhaps from my rather parochial Catholic upbringing.

I'm Catholic. My mother and I were unpacking and she found my diaphragm. I had to tell her it was a bathing cap for my cat.

My father was Catholic, my mother was Protestant, and because of that I got Christened in both churches, so I've got all these names... but my Dad always called me Mick.

I always tell people, you know, [J.F.Kennedy's] grandfather was born in Ireland and he was Irish-Catholic, and I thought, so maybe I could someday try do what he did.

I'm not Catholic but the Virgin Mary fascinates me because she's like a folk hero.

Purity is the fruit of prayer.

We have no salaries. When one says he is from a good Catholic family and says he wants to help us, why should we refuse his offer?

As a non-Catholic, and since I was a child, I have been obsessed with the ritual and the beauty of Catholic art. I look at Renaissance art all the time.

Prayer is like Thanksgiving dinner. It takes one hour to eat it and ten hours to prepare it.

You cannot be in love with love.

The Gospel of life must be proclaimed and human life defended in all places and all times.

In the designs of Providence, there are no mere coincidences.

There are many examples of this mistaken idea of freedom, such as the elimination of human life by legalized or generally accepted abortion.

The Church must persist in the teaching transmitted to her by Christ.

There is a species of moral, legal, and social modernism which we condemn, no less decidedly than we condemn theological modernism.

I'm catholic in the same way, that if a cow was born in a tree, it's a bird!

Only He who made man makes man happy.

It is better that the truth be known than that scandal be covered up.

It is precisely our job as Catholics to speak the truth as plainly and precisely as we can.

I'm a Christian. I was born and raised a Catholic. But I think there are people that are frauds that are ministers.

I went to a school run by Catholic nuns. They were really strict.

I went to a Catholic school with 40 kids total. There were no cliques, but I suppose I was the sporty good girl.

Hope, O my soul, hope. You know neither the day nor the hour.

Love is the Cross, and the Cross is Love.

Do I observe holy days and holidays? Yeah, the ritual is very important to me. It's part of being Ukrainian Catholic. So every holy day we're baking pierogis and not eating meat.

The only reason the Protestants and Catholics have given up the idea of universal domination is because they've realised they can't get away with it.

If a man cannot serve two masters, neither can Christianity, or several thousand of them as the case may be.

There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all.

Since art is considered a noble field, art should be used to promote all that is good and noble, and in a noble fashion.

That's it. Love makes us all strong.

In fine, a life of good or evil, the hope of Heaven or the despair of Hell, Faustus stands as a reminder that the choice between these two absolutes also falls to us.

The gates of Hell are terrible to behold, are they not?

We are the sum total of the decisions we have made.

God Is, Lucifer is a devil, and there is a Hell.

Could there be any doubt that the Jews would seek to harm the Son of God again, knowing that his body was now readily accessible in the form of defenseless crackers?

Abortion should be listed as a weapon of mass destruction against the voiceless.

If there are damned souls in Hell, it is because men blind themselves.

Truth can prevail only in virtue of truth itself.

Or maybe, he thought, returning to the boxes, it was part of being Catholic--you were made to feel guilty about everything

What seems to me white, I will believe black if the hierarchical Church so defines.

I grew up as a Roman Catholic, and as a very young boy I felt the presence of divinity in my life through the experiences that I had in connection with the Catholic church.