Catholic Quotes

Thus inwardly armed with confidence in God and the unshakable stupidity of the voting citizenry, the politicians can begin the fight for the 'remaking' of the Reich as they call it.

God draws straight with crooked lines.

The Catholics had been in the position of oppressors, and the Protestants of the oppressed

You should invest like a Catholic marries: for life.

If you're going to do a thing, you should do it thoroughly. If you're going to be a Christian, you may as well be a Catholic.

The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.

Fly to the Catholic Church! Adhere to the only faith which continues to exist from the beginning, that faith which was preached by Paul and is upheld by the Chair of Peter.

Hey, I'm a Catholic deer hunter, I am happy to be clinging to my guns and my religion.

Only when we cease to rely on our own strength can we discover that God's strength is always there for us.

The devil is always discovering something novel against the truth.

If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.

You have to say no to something else, in order to make time to pray.

Whatever skills I have acquired, whatever gifts I have been given, I place them at Your service.

It is because of faith that we exchange the present for the future.

Faith in action is love, and love in action is service. By transforming that faith into living acts of love, we put ourselves in contact with God Himself, with Jesus our Lord.

We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution. Each of us is the result of a thought of God.

Do not be afraid, for I am with you. Do not turn away, for I am your God. I have strengthened you, and I have assisted you, and the right hand of my just one has upheld you.

Neither the true faith nor eternal salvation is to be found outside the Holy Catholic Church.

We are no longer able to hear God - There are too many frequencies filling our ears.

I am Catholic. But I am opposed to a monopoly when it comes to faith.

The trouble is that everyone talks about reforming others and no one thinks about reforming himself.

I'm a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.

Souls do not wish to be bullied, but gently brought back; such is the nature of man.

You cannot be half a saint; you must be a whole saint or no saint at all.

I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.

Being a Catholic is the most important aspect of my life.

A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.

I have tried to kill sectarianism, whether in Catholics or Protestants.

Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.

If I have any worth, it is to live my life for God so as to teach these peoples; even though some of them still look down on me.

This human world of ours would be inconceivable without the practical existence of a religious belief.

Yesterday I had a Shaker visitor, and today a Catholic; and the more I see and hear, the less do I care about church doctrines.

Peace is the work of justice indirectly, in so far as justice removes the obstacles to peace; but it is the work of charity (love) directly, since charity, according to its very notion, causes peace.

The Hindus have worshipped from ancient times the baby Krishna in the arms of Virgin Devaki just as the Roman catholics [sic] worship Madona [sic] with baby Christ.

The difficulty of explaining ‘why I am a Catholic’ is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true.

You know, my children go to a local, local catholic school just down the road.

I was born in Paris in 1950. I had a strict upper-class Catholic education but I never really fitted in the system and revolted against it quite early.

Judge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest to it.

In the sacraments, spirit and matter "kiss." Heaven and earth embrace in a union that will never end.

An acquaintance merely enjoys your company, a fair-weather companion flatters when all is well, a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.

A good school provides a rounded education for the whole person. And a good Catholic school, over and above this, should help all its students to become saints.

I was reared a Catholic but I think every day we ask ourselves, not consciously, what are we doing on this planet? What's it all about?

I was the biggest George Harrison fanatic in the world. He was raised Catholic; my parents are both ex-clergy, so I was raised Catholic, and I admired how he used his faith.

As soon as you willfully allow a dialogue with temptation to begin, the soul is robbed of peace, just as consent to impurity destroys grace.

Keep the joy of loving God in your heart and share this joy with all you meet especially your family. Be holy let us pray.

I am Albanian by birth. Now I am a citizen of India. I am also a Catholic nun. In my work, I belong to the whole world. But in my heart, I belong to Christ.

Catholic, which I was until I reached the age of reason

It is unfortunate that in most cases when the sins of the father fall on the son it is because unlike God, people refuse to forgive and forget and heap past wrongs upon innocent generations.

When the problems in Northern Ireland started, it was not a question of Protestantism or Catholicism, because the Catholic church was the only church at that time-it was a nationalist conflict.

We are unprofitable servants, we have done what we were obliged to do.