Catholicism Quotes

Justice comes before charity.

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.

In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth, a life full of the most atrocious tortures on earth, will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.

Anti-Catholicism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectual.

Again, conventional Catholicism does not much appeal to me.

I would say that, intellectually, Catholicism had no more impact on me than did social theory.

If, hypothetically, Western Catholicism were to review the issue of celibacy, I think it would do so for cultural reasons, not so much as a universal option.

Peace is not simply the absence of warfare.

When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life.

Catholicism is contrary to human liberty. Catholicism bases salvation upon belief. Catholicism teaches man to trample his reason under foot. And for that reason it is wrong.

In a way Australia is like Catholicism. The company is sometimes questionable and the landscape is grotesque. But you always come back.

By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice the manufacturer's icon on top: an apple with a bite out of it.

Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence of God.

Never was Catholicism, never were the ideas of chivalry, impressed on men so deeply, so multifariously, as the bourgeois ideas.

Roman Catholicism: a hundred million people bowing down before a flesh-hating, elderly celibate.

Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised.

I think a lot of bands are influenced by religious symbolism and not even necessarily Christianity or Catholicism.

I can't bear Catholicism.

In Catholicism, the pint, the pipe and the Cross can all fit together.

What the Vatican did will be indelibly and eternally engraved in our hearts. Priests and even high prelates did things that will forever be an honor to Catholicism.

Catholicism is not a lifeless set of rules and regulations. Catholicism is a lifestyle. Catholicism is a way of life designed by God to help you become all you can be.

It [Catholicism] supplies a multitude of external forms in which the spiritual may be clothed and manifested.

I think that the achievements of Catholicism on race are very, very impressive.

I think I would like to be a monk. I really considered Catholicism a few years ago, but there were some things that I just couldnt reconcile.

Both Mum and Dad were converts to Catholicism, and normally if you convert to Catholicism you have thought about it more than someone who just grew up with it, taking it for granted.

It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively.

The connection between art and Christ is like the connection between sunlight and the sun. It is, in fact, the connection between Sonlight and the Son.

Her (Mary's) Son first had to be the Child of the Father in order then to become man and be capable of taking up on his shoulders the burden of a guilty world.

How anyone can remain a Catholic - I mean who has ever been aroused to think, and is not biased by the partialities of childish years - after seeing Catholicism here in Italy I cannot conceive.

Well, I think that Catholicism's basic foundation of faith is personal conscience. I think it's between you and God, not you and the Church.

Catholicism is the most philosophical branch of Christianity.

I begin every novel with the vow that I will not write about technology, Catholicism, or Hell. As you know, I end up writing about all three. They just happen to be personal obsessions of mine.

One philosophically fascinating aspect of Catholicism is the very strange conception of reality it presents (the incarnation, the eucharist, judgement day etc.).

Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons.

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?

The Reformer is always right about what's wrong. However, he's often wrong about what is right.

Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command.

Catholics are frequently criticised because of the prominence and respect given to the Virgin Mary while simultaneously condemned for not giving enough prominence and respect to women.

Truth can prevail only in virtue of truth itself.

Catholicism isn't a religion, it's a nationality.

Catholicism has changed tremendously in recent years. Now when Communion is served there is also a salad bar.

When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the religion of amulets and holy places and priestcraft: Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of ethical platitudes

I think Catholicism took root very quickly in Ireland because it's a very superstitious religion, the holy ghost, the holy spirit, it has a goddess, very visual, the music.

I just became fascinated with how complex and unlikely the universe is and life is and Catholicism gives me an answer to that.

Anyone who really studies Catholicism deeply is aware of the mystical nature of our faith. Even references to Christ's mystical body has connections to that principle.

Has science ever retreated? No! It is Catholicism which has always retreated before her, and will always be forced to retreat.

If we look at statistical data, we see that Protestant countries in terms of economic development are more successful than those observing Catholicism.

Communism, being the lay form of Catholicism, and indeed meaning the same thing, has never had any lack of chaplains.

The only future is intentional Catholicism, evangelical Catholicism.

[Pope] Francis communicates the pastoral embrace of the Church, the breadth and inclusiveness of Catholicism symbolized by the Bernini colonnade around St. Peter's Square, in a powerful way.