Catholic Quotes

Where I come from, when a Catholic marries a Lutheran it is considered the first step on the road to Minneapolis.

I am a Catholic not like someone else would be a Baptist or a Methodist, but like someone else would be an atheist.

I abjure with a sincere heart and unfeigned faith, I curse and detest the said errors and heresies, and generally all and every error and sect contrary to the Holy Catholic Church.

I went to a Catholic School, and underneath my school uniform, I wore a metal shirt.

There's only one difference between Jews and Catholics. Jews are born with guilt, and Catholics have to go to school to learn it.

You can always tell who went to catholic school, because they're atheists.

Every Catholic is one good Confession away from potential sainthood.

Let nothing novel be introduced!

In failing to confess, Lord, I would only hide You from myself, not myself from You.

I was raised Catholic in the Midwest, so I cant enjoy anything.

I attribute all of my success to my Catholic faith. My faith has given me the ability to be a good father, a good husband and most importantly a good person.

If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!

I was raised as a Catholic and received the body and blood of Jesus Christ every Sunday at communion until I was thirty years of age, when I became a vegetarian.

What God lacks is convictions- stability of character. He ought to be a Presbyterian or a Catholic or something- not try to be everything.

God bestows more consideration on the purity of the intention with which our actions are performed than on the actions themselves.

Hell is full of good wishes or desires.

Oh, the Protestants hate the Catholics/ And the Catholics hate the Protestants/ And the Hindus hate the Muslims/ And everybody hates the Jews.

I believe that were it not for the Holy Mass, as of this moment the world would be in the abyss.

I don't know, maybe it's because I was raised Catholic. Confession has always held a great appeal for me.

I've got a lot of back-up because my father was a Catholic, my mother was a Protestant, I was educated by Jews and I'm married to a Muslim. So I won't lose out on a technicality.

I'm Catholic and I can't commit suicide, but I plan to drink myself to death.

My husband is a fall-away Catholic, but with a vengeance. He's actually more of a feminist than I am.

I may not be Hispanic, but I'm close. I'm Catholic with a mustache[]

Lack of prayer is the cause of lack of time.

I don't think I look like the pope's favorite Catholic - at least not under close scrutiny.

You should have seen me in my Catholic school girl skirt with my knees knocking together.

The saints have always been the source and origin of renewal in the most difficult moments in the Church's history.

Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.

If I knew where the good songs came from, I’d go there more often. It’s a mysterious condition. It’s much like the life of a Catholic nun. You’re married to a mystery.

Truth must be the foundation stone, the cement to solidify the entire social edifice.

Some men are Baptists, others Catholics; my father was an Oldsmobile man.

At home we ate fish every Friday, as Catholics were then supposed to do. Being Jewish, I compromised. I wore a hat when I ate fish, out of respect for my own religion and the fish's family.

You know, I was the class clown in Catholic school, but I never thought I would make a living out of it!

I believe in the curative powers of love as the English believe in tea or Catholics believe in the Miracle of Lourdes.

True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor.

We must be pure. I do not speak merely of the purity of the senses. We must observe great purity in our will, in our intentions, in all our actions.

The wish to pray is a prayer in itself.

All of us must be saints in this world. Holiness is a duty for you and me. So let's be saints and so give glory to the Father.

Holy Purity is granted by God when it is asked for with humility.

Catholic schools carry out a great mission, to serve God by building knowledge and character... By teaching the word of God, you prepare your students to follow a path of virtue.

I don't need a psychiatrist. I'm Catholic.

I was raised Catholic until I was old enough to say no.

Any goal without salvation as its ultimate end is as pointless as trying to live forever on this earth.

Every day Catholics prove that you can be a good Catholic and a good Democrat and have a different position from the Church on abortion.

Avoid the profane novelty of words, St. Paul says (I Timothy 6:20) ... For if novelty is to be avoided, antiquity is to be held tight to; and if novelty is profane, antiquity is sacred.

I've been Catholic all my life, and there's one thing I've never understood. Why didn't the Corinthians write back?

Euthanasia and assisted suicide are never acceptable acts of mercy. They always gravely exploit the suffering and desperate, extinguishing life in the name of the 'quality of life' itself.

For the majority of English people there are only two religions, Roman Catholic, which is wrong, and the rest, which don't matter.

To will everything that God wills, and to will it always, in all circumstances and without reservations: that is the kingdom of God which is entirely within.

Each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ.