Catholic Quotes · Page 27

Whenever anything disagreeable or displeasing happens to you, remember Christ crucified and be silent.

— John of the Cross

I don't live in the papal residence. I live in a simple apartment behind the Vatican gas station.

— Pope Francis

I was raised an Episcopalian. And I did not and I don't believe that anyone is looking out for me personally.

— Joan Didion

I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.

— Vera Farmiga

I'm one of those people that, if I'm in the country, I will have a look inside an old church.

— Alison Goldfrapp

In real life I don't chant. Nor do I believe in idol worship.

— Abhay Deol

I'm an atheist how unfortunate it is to assign responsibility to the higher up for justice amongst people,

— Ani DiFranco

Truth is I don't think God on a daily basis. I think politics, science.

— Peter Mullan

Auschwitz cries out with the pain of immense suffering and pleads for a future of respect, peace and encounter among peoples.

— Pope Francis

“My mother was a good Catholic -- she went to mass twice a week at St. Mary's in Richmond, but my father…

— Sue Monk Kidd

What I was told is that I was born to a mother who was a Catholic, while her boyfriend was not. They…

— Mary Gauthier

I was very serious about being a priest, twice in my life. Almost joined the Montfort Seminary after I graduated from high…

— Rudy Giuliani

I don't think of spiritual principle as a struggle. I think of life lived without spiritual principles as a struggle.

— Marianne Williamson

Man's life comes from God: it is his image and imprint, as sharing in his breath of life. God therefore is the…

— Pope John Paul II

Let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of…

— Anonymous

“They’re convinced that the more conservative you are the more orthodox you are. They’re more Catholic than the Pope.”

— Michael D. O'Brien

In many ways, American evangelicalism is somewhat stronger today than it was in, say 1955 - certainly more mainstream and influential in…

— Ross Douthat

Dear young people of every language and culture, a high and exhilarating task awaits you: that of becoming men and women capable…

— Pope John Paul II

I think by all accounts in the same way we look back on the anti-Catholic and anti-Jewish sentiments of our history with…

— Reza Aslan

“O Sacred Heart of Jesus, fountain of eternal life, Your Heart is a glowing furnace of Love. You are my refuge and…

— Gertrude the Great

Shame is something you'll find a lot of - particularly Catholic - girls feel about their bodies, about their sexuality, about their…

— Rachel Cusk

It was manifest to me that there was something in the Roman Catholic religion which made the priests very dear to the…

— Bill Vaughan

I was brought up Catholic. My mom brought us to mass every Sunday - short for 'massive head trauma' that you get…

— Richard Jeni

It's a beautiful religion and I wish I understood it more. No, I don't want to understand it all. It's beautiful because…

— Betty Smith

I was an altar boy, which I loved and am very proud of. It was strict, but also really nice.

— Michael Keaton

I'd grown up very Catholic, parochial school, and Warlock was a way of working a lot of things out.

— Jim Starlin

I have no problem with people's religious beliefs. I just don't happen to have any.

— Salman Rushdie

Religion has given me a new drive in life. Life feels a lot easier than it ever did before.

— Wesley Sneijder

We take in more a week now than we did in two years when I first came to the church.

— Johnny Hunt

I've taken a stand against religion for as long I've been able to write and think.

— Roy Harper

I don't go by my caste, creed or religion. My works speak for me.

— Shashi Tharoor

I am Catholic. But I am opposed to a monopoly when it comes to faith.

— Evo Morales

I never rejected religion, but it just ceased to be an overriding concern in my life.

— David Lowery

Before I was a journalist, I was a preacher in Georgia and Kentucky.

— Shaun King

My husband is not a Christian but is a religious man, I think.

— Mary Todd Lincoln

I grew up in a very Catholic family. Up until puberty, I would go to a Catholic church every week.

— Park Chan-wook

I was raised Catholic, but my father's people were Methodist, so we went to both churches.

— Aaron Neville

“But I’m not sitting around praying for revival either. I grew up in the “pray for revival” culture.”

— Andy Stanley

The Roman Catholics teach that unless you're a Roman Catholic you do not go to heaven.

— Neale Donald Walsch

I didn't go to church a lot at home growing up. I was never even baptized.

— Ice Spice