Catholic Quotes

I think of the Catholic worker movement and Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin and others.

We have been mentored from the very beginning by Catholic folks who are invigorating the best of the monastic spirit.

Like many Catholics, I was very affected by the personality of Jesus and that impression, pious as it was, has stayed with me.

I am catholic. And I don't like to see catholicism being brought into disrepute by those in charge who don't seem to believe in God at all... they act like they don't think God is watching.

Children who were very truly pious in a Catholic childhood are apt to retain a nostalgia for the absolute.

I'm just a good Catholic boy - I do naughty things and feel guilty about them.

Well, I'm a Catholic by birth and you can never shed it.

Those Catholics, they really nab you when you're young.

One of the reasons there are largely Catholic and largely Protestant regions of Germany today is that people did sort themselves out geographically.

In point of fact I was a perfectly devoted and dutiful little Catholic—until the day I learned that animals have no souls.

To become a lapsed Catholic, first go to a Catholic university.

We have a pope [Francis] who's very popular among the Catholic faithful and non-Catholics, but there's no doubt he's going to continue to face resistance from conservatives inside the church.

Without the necessary humility to worship, I subconsciously desired to be worshiped, not in a crazy Napoleanic manner, but like a modern-day celebrity.

I value my Catholic background very much. It taught me not to be afraid of rigorous thought, for one thing.

It is unlawful to add anything to the words of Holy Scripture regarding the sense.

When I was a kid I went to Catholic school, and they used to drag us out to pro-life rallies and stuff full of crazy people.

I'm really fortunate. I grew up in a wonderful household with great Irish Catholic parents.

In fact, that's a great thing about America and even about being Catholic, we have plenty of opinions.

The Holy Father held a special place in the hearts of more than 1 billion Catholics worldwide.

Anti-Catholicism is the last respectable prejudice. You can't hate black people anymore, of course, and you can't hate homosexuals anymore, but you can hate all the Catholics you want.

I was raised Catholic and didn't like the dogma and exclusivity of that teaching but I was moved by the moral teachings and by the power of the Jesus fellow.

I feel a little uncomfortable at being asked the sorts of questions that other Catholics in public life tend not to be asked.

I went to parochial grammar school, and I give thanks to the Catholic training because of course, they brought me to the heart of Jesus.

It's perfectly fair that you can't be a Roman Catholic priest unless you're a man. It seems right that the reach of anti-discriminatory law should stop at the door of the church or mosque.

I was a fervent Catholic, and I belonged to the national organizations, even becoming one of the national leaders, until the age of 21, 22.

Let Catholics build their own churches and works.

I grew up, as reported, in a large family of Catholics without even a decent ration of tentativeness among the lot of us about our religious faith.

We are all born like Catholics, aren't we—in limbo, without religion, until some figure introduces us to God?

Sometimes I regret not being Catholic. I think I'd make a pretty good saint.

It is well known how the monks wrote silly lives of Catholic Saints over the manuscripts on which the classical works of ancient heathendom had been written.

I held the Host with two fingers and thought: How small Jesus made Himself, in order to show us that He doesn't expect great things of us, but rather little things with great love.

What could there be in this document written by a young girl in 1917?

The most evil institution in the world is the Roman Catholic Church.

Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they’re ratified into law.

It’s not unpatriotic to denounce an injustice committed on our behalf, perhaps it’s the most patriotic thing we can do.

The devil has not vanished simply because people refuse to believe he exists, no more than God has...

Poor God, how often He is blamed for all the suffering in theworld. It’s like praising Satan for allowing all the good that happens.

... what you think is right isn't the same as knowing what is right.

If you boil it down, just because someone else does the wrong thing we are not exempt from doing what’s right.

... a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.

... love for our neighbours does not die the minute we enter heaven, it intensifies.

There are many forms of tyrants, but there are none so terrible as those stifling their own people in the name of freedom.

Heaven is not a republic.

Reflect carefully on this, for it is so important that I can hardly lay too much stress on it. Fix your eyes on the Crucified and nothing else will be of much importance to you.

Love, like everything else in life, should be a discovery, an adventure, and like most adventures, you don’t know you’re having one until you’re right in the middle of it.

... it’s a blessed thing to love and feel loved in return.

He does not call those who are worthy, but those whom He will.

just show a little humility. If you know your weaknesses you will not be enslaved by them.

Tell me, son... have you ever been intimidated by anyone?''Oh yes, ' said Thomas. 'I don't believe it. By whom?''By Our Lord... on the altar.

We are all constantly being refined by fire and smoothed over by grace.