Catholic Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Evil influence is like a nicotine patch, you cannot help but absorb what sticks to you.

It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.

You see, my father was a Catholic priest, Greek Orthodox, but I think he started out as a Jew, then he became a Catholic priest.

I went to Boston College. It's a Catholic college, yeah I had a nickname there: Jew.

Abortion is a denial of one of those powers which make women women.

You see, some non-Catholic friends of mine have questioned the depth of my faith because of the fact that I have a good education.

The Catholic faith never changes. But the language and mode of manifesting this one faith can change according to peoples, times and places.

Catholics are against abortions. Catholics are against homosexuals. But, I can't think of anyone who has less abortions than homosexuals!

My home base - pop music and the Catholic Church.

You cannot expect a foreign country to be more Catholic than the pope for you.

I suppose you could sum up the religious aspects of my boyhood by saying it was a time of life when I was taught the difference between right and wrong as it specifically applied to Catholicism.

The central icon of Catholic Christianity is mother and child. That motif is so deep in not just our human experience but in our animal, biological past.

Faith comes to intelligence as a light that overflows it with joy and inspires it with a certitude that does away with question.

We do hereby command the Leaders of the Hebrew, Catholic and Protestant Churches to sanctify and have us crowned Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico.

I was a Catholic boy, I went to church every Sunday. A church has a certain magic and mystery for a child. It still shows in how I arrange things. It's always little altars.

I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament.

In my work, I explore my own Catholic obsessions.

In the fulfillment of your duties, let your intentions be so pure that you reject from your actions any other motive than the glory of God and the salvation of souls.

I was raised a Catholic and when you're raised a Catholic they don't teach you to think for yourself. You're taught not to think too deeply about things.

I just pray. And I'm not very religious at all - I was raised Catholic, but probably haven't gone to church since my Holy Communion, when I was about 6 or 7.

He's a Catholic, a Hindy, an atheist, a Chein, a Buddhist, a Baptist and a Jew, and he knows, he shouldn't kill.

Peace is a mark of the Holy Spirit.

I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.

Badness cannot succeed even in being bad in the same way in which goodness is good. Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness. Evil is a parasite, not an original thing.

The best way not to find the bed too cold is to go to bed colder than the bed is.

And Christ, through His own salvific suffering, is very much present in every human suffering, and can act from within that suffering by the powers of His Spirit of truth, His consoling spirit.

I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship.

Every Irish person of my generation and earlier, we were raised Catholic and we'd have to learn it in school, we'd to learn the catechism by rote.

I always say I'm Catholic - but a cultural Catholic. I wouldn't say I'm a spiritual person, although I pray every day.

Make your lives intensely Eucharistic.

Where the bishop is present, there is the Catholic Church

They're after one world religion and one world government. That's why they've attacked the Catholic Church so strongly, to ultimately take control over it by their doctrine.

Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.

The first organization structure in the modern West was laid down in the canon law of the Catholic Church eight hundred years ago.

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.

I was steeped in the understanding that if 'something is Roman [Catholic], it must be wrong.

Although I am a committed Catholic priest, and nowhere hide that fact, my focus is very much a spiritual journey.

I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American.

The Catholic Church has a tough new policy on child molestors: three strikes and you're a cardinal.

Christian obedience, by its very nature, has a heroic character.

Without prayer, our faith is weakened, our love grows cold, our hope becomes uncertain.

Be humble in this life.

Becoming Catholic involves entering into a relationship with the Catholic Church.

BC is not going to replace the hierarchy, and BC is not going to lead some major reform in the Catholic Church - that's got to come out of the whole Catholic community.