Catholicism Quotes

I've been interested in Eastern religions since I went to college because I was trying to figure out where I stood with Catholicism.

"Entertainers Of Faith," funnyman Jim Gaffigan isn't ashamed of his Catholicism. He's seen here leaving a New York comedy club with his Bible in hand.

Maybe some of my quest for success comes from Joan of Arc but theres no conscious part of Catholicism in my life.

My mother converted to Catholicism to marry my father.

While I was in college becoming a good Catholic I was also becoming a writer - one haunted by Catholicism.

I know that Buddhism is to Hinduism what Protestantism is to Roman Catholicism, only in a much stronger light, to a much greater degree.

Catholicism has the clerical equivalent to a nut allergy - even a small exposure to change, and the whole thing will go into anaphylactic shock.

Let there be no innovation; keep to what has been handed down.

That is one of the flagrant misconceptions about Catholicism in America that if a man is a Catholic he owes allegiance to what they say a foreign sovereign, or something like that.

Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.

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.

I had abandoned Catholicism, but even during my short militant atheist period I maintained an interest in western religious art and music.

I'm very, very serious about my Catholicism and Hillary Clinton views that as a real asset. And we've talked about our faith lives, as she asked me to be on the ticket with her.

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.

Even prostitutes, alcoholics, embezzlers - I won't rehearse the whole catalogue - need health insurance.

...only the exclusive and indissoluble union between a man and a woman has a plenary role to play in society as a stable commitment that bears fruit in new life.

Narcissism makes people incapable of looking beyond themselves, beyond their own desires and needs.

What a prodigious conscience must that be that can be at quiet within itself whilst it harbors under thesame roof, with so agreeing and so calm a society, both the crime and the judge?

This is one of the greatest challenges of our time: to convert ourselves to a type of development that knows how to respect creation.

What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.

The rich fop Francis of Assisi was bored all his life―until he fell in love with Christ and gave all his stuff away and became the troubadour of Lady Poverty.

Love gives you eyes.

Stand in the divine rain, and seeds of wisdom will grow in your soul.

Far better it is for you to say: "I am a sinner, " than to say: "I have no need of religion." The empty can be filled, but the self-intoxicated have no room for God.

Mary thus learns that the Most High has ever borne a Son in his bosom, and that this Son has now chosen her bosom as dwelling-place.

Suffering often draws us closer to God. Instead of being a sign of God's punishment or distance, suffering can purify us, lead us into the heart of God, and transform our souls.

LIFE IS SUBVERSIVE

... You can't be with God and be neutral. / True contemplation is resistance. And poetry, / gazing at clouds is resistance I found out in jail.

Because I am Beat, I believe in Beatitude and that God so loved the world He gave His only begotten Son to it.

We are all born like Catholics . . . in limbo, without religion.

An institution is right or it is wrong. One that cannot accept dinosaur bones is one that cannot be trusted on more important matters.

Thirty-five craters on the moon are named for Jesuit scientists and mathematicians.

The father of Egyptology was Father Athanasius Kircher.

Jesuits so dominated the study of earthquakes that seismology became known as 'the Jesuit Science.

Father Roger Boscovich is often credited as the father of modern atomic theory.

Father Nicholas Steno, is often identified as the father of geology.

The first person to measure the rate of acceleration of a free falling body was Father Giambattista Riccioli.

Lord, my hands were made for blessing, but not my feet!

He was alone in his wonderment, amoung creatures incapable of wonder--for them it was enough to exist and go their way.

...all that is carried alongby the stream's silvery cascade, rhythmically falling from the mountain, carried by its own current--carried where?

O miracle—thus to be able to give [peace] we ourselves do not possess, sweet miracle of our empty hands!

We pay a heavy, very heavy price for the superhuman dignity of our calling. The ridiculous is always so near to the sublime. And the world, usually so indulgent to foibles, hates ours instinctively.

The first good news for all of us, the first joyful story of our lives, is that there is a story at all, and an Author who has loved us into being.

Between optimism and pessimism, there is confidence in God.

If he had given away anything else, he would have been charged with indecent exposure.

Only by having a sense of history's trajectory (even if one does not believe in Parousia) can one love earthly reality and believe—with charity—that there is still room for Hope.

It sounds to me, dear, as if your satirist is a bit like a monk. They both take a rather dim view of the world, and both try to do something abou

No one, on his deathbed, ever regretted having been a Catholic.

We can only sense ourselves and our world valued and cherished by God when we feel valued and cherished by others '.

Of course, I’ve told Jesus to suck it, too, which earned me a certain measure of notoriety, because you have to make fun of any religion that would let you have sixteen kids and say it’s God’s will.