Roman Quotes

At Vatican Council II, one dissenting Roman Catholic theologian declared: "Yes, the Bible says "Be fruitful and multiply," but that was when the population was two per square world.

The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation.

Can a free government possibly exist with the Roman Catholic religion?

I didn't know how to be any other way. I felt like one of those barbarian kings just coming to conquer the Roman Empire.

Why would Roman gods want to date Chinese Canadians?

The Roman Catholic Church isn't going to change its theologies.

In the second century A.D. the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius may have best defined pantheism when he wrote, “Everything is interwoven, and the web is holy.

A citizen of the Roman Empire, for example, would have placed less value on individual liberty in the modern Western sense than on collective responsibility.

We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization.

I’ve been listening to how the Roman Empire fell and all I can say is, it didn’t fall nearly fast enough!”-Iggy

A Roman Catholic worships a god who speaks through the Pope, while a Baptist worships a god who does not. They cannot be worshipping the same god.

Do you think Arabs are dumb? They gave us our numbers. Try doing long division with Roman numerals.

I have met many Roman Catholic theologians who will emphasize as much as any good Protestant preacher that everything comes from the love and grace of God.

[Non-Catholic Christians are] in a gravely deficient situation in comparison with those who, in the [Roman Catholic] church, have the fullness of the means of salvation.

The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do.

The Roman Empire was fairly tolerant of religious choice as long as you made a point not of thumbing your nose in public at the Roman gods.

I've been playing the game so long that my handicap is in Roman numerals.

I'm a Roman Catholic! A devout Roman Catholic.

I'm Roman Catholic and I believe very strongly in the power of prayer.

The world is mere change, and this life, opinion.

America is stronger than any state probably since the Roman Empire. But we can't do what used to be done with that kind of strength.

[Instead] of inquiring why the Roman empire was destroyed, we should rather be surprised that it had subsisted so long.

How do you write zero in Roman numerals?

The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy nor Roman nor an empire, the United Nations is a disunited collection of regimes, many of which do not represent the nations they govern.

Protestant women may take the pill. Roman Catholic women must keep taking The Tablet.

As you know, I am neither Roman Catholic, Protestant Episcopalian, nor Presbyterian, nor am I an Irishman.

If you want to be a Roman Catholic scholar and write, you've got to write in such a way that nobody understands what you're saying, and then you're thought to be profound.

When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same time slowly evolved.

I still believe the lessons I learned when I was raised in a Roman Catholic household. Like, it's harder for a rich man to get into Heaven than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle.

I grew up as a Roman Catholic, and as a very young boy I felt the presence of divinity in my life through the experiences that I had in connection with the Catholic church.

I have friends who are Roman Catholics. I have friends who are Lutherans.

This condition of uncertainty and unrest in the Roman Empire might explain why at Plotinus' philosophy encourages us to sort of flee from the physical world and towards the world of ideas.

Charlemagne either died or was born or did something with the Holy Roman Empire in 800.

With my Roman Catholic upbringing, I have a set of principles that serve me well in good times and bad.

Once the Roman Catholic Church in the West became the church most closely connected with the state, the Roman Catholic Church did not recognize the validity of any religion other than its own.

It's perfectly fair that you can't be a Roman Catholic priest unless you're a man. It seems right that the reach of anti-discriminatory law should stop at the door of the church or mosque.

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?

Be there a picnic for the devil, an orgy for the satyr, and a wedding for the bride.

I regained my soul through literature after those times I'd lost it to wild-eyed gypsy girls on the European streets.

Looking back on my life, I sigh. The caprice of youth goes with the wind, I’ve no regrets.

The disappearance of the presence of beauty is the most despairing of events on this time-wheel of ours that rolls onward towards death.

Life is Not a perpetual climb towards Greatness.For our family, ourselves, and friends, It is but sad Decay, so, Let every girl die after her Hebé (Ἥβη).And every man after his Aristeia(ἀριστεία).

Wherever you go in the next catastrophéBe it sickroom, or prison, or cemet’ryDo not fear that your stay will besolit’ryCountless souls share your fate, you’ll have company!

I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side.

A writer needs to ingest love to be passionate. Passion is a metabolite of love, and good writing is an active metabolite of passion.

The birthing wolf, Her heart fed with tenderness, Gave forth from ripe brown nipples, Food to feed the universe.

We look up to see if it is day or night. If stars burn cool and moon does shine, We take to smoke divine and wine.If breath of sun does belch its heat, we boil coffee and prepare to eat.

Mine was the twilight and the morning. Mine was a world of rooftops and love songs.

Ô, Sunlight! The most precious gold to be found on Earth.

When a Wanderess has been caged, or perched with her wings clipped, She lives like a Stoic, She lives most heroic, smiling with ruby, moistened lips once her cup of Death is welcome sipped.