Catholic Quotes · Page 30

“Langdon was impressed. “You know Latin.” “I grew up Catholic. I know sin.”

— Dan Brown

I have never hid my spiritual roots. They just weren't something that came under the spotlight.

— Amar'e Stoudemire

Plenty of people are raised Catholic and then aren't Catholic anymore, like any religion.

— Danny Masterson

I'm very old-fashioned. I believe that people should stay married for life, like pigeons and Catholics.

— Woody Allen

It's not so much that I'm an atheist so much as the sneaking suspicion that I myself may be god

— Thom Yorke

Many trees have died so that the Catholic Church can preach against homosexuality.

— Jodi Picoult

If I speak of Islamic violence, I must speak of Catholic violence.

— Pope Francis

I grew up Mormon. I wasn't really Mormon, my parents were.

— Ryan Gosling

Grandma's on the front porch with a Bible in her hand, sometimes I hear her singing take me to the promised land.

— Anonymous

I grew up in a family where, through my teenage years, I was expected to go to church on Sunday. It wasn't…

— John Irving

I'm not religious, but I put it that way because I feel so strongly. It's the one thing you do not ever…

— James Lovelock

Contrary to what everyone thinks, I'm not superstitious - I'm spiritual. And there is a huge difference between the two.

— Ekta Kapoor

I'm very interested in the history of Christianity, and what I can say for sure is that the Catholics and the Jesuits…

— Ben Mendelsohn

My parents were rather unconventional and did not accept rules unless they thought they were defendable. They were atheists when Sweden was…

— Stellan Skarsgard

I go to church because my parents go to church, and I believe the things they were doing at the time were…

— Peter Tosh

I dont like Jews. Or colored folk. Or natives, now that you mention it...I bet you like Catholics. Cant stand them either.…

— Herbert

I think I would always tell school kids that, you know, they'd say, "When did you get interested in politics?" I said,…

— Mike Pence

I often went to Catholic mass or Eucharist at the Episcopal church, nourished by the symbol and power of this profound feeding…

— Sue Monk Kidd

I lived in a low-income Black community, grew up with kids on welfare and with Black folks driving Cadillacs, going to private…

— Maya Wiley

You know, all mystics - Catholic, Christian, non-Christian, no matter what their theology, no matter what their religion - are unanimous on…

— Anthony de Mello

I accepted Christ at a young age, at the age of six years old, and just tried to play hockey and balance…

— Mike Fisher

“I was raised as a Baptist in the Bible Belt of the South. Until the age of 37, I had never heard…

— Kimberly Eady

Every year, like a good Catholic, I wait for Christmas. Putting up the lights, decorating the tree, making sweets and then unwrapping…

— Malaika Arora Khan

All true and living devotion presupposes the love of God and indeed it is neither more nor less than a very real…

— Saint Francis de Sales

I'm obviously not an advocate of Christian America or a simplistic view of America as 'a city on a hill.'

— Os Guinness

I would like to call myself a spiritualist more than an actor.

— Rajinikanth

In the poor and outcast we see Christ’s face; by loving and helping the poor, we love and serve Christ.

— Pope Francis

[My catholic education] sticked with me. It caused the rage I had to make 'Pink Flamingos.'

— John Waters

To become a lapsed Catholic, first go to a Catholic university.

— Susan Sarandon

Ours is the Spirit of the Eucharist, the total Gift of Self.

— Katharine Drexel

I've been an atheist ever since I heard there was only a stairway to heaven

— Stella Young

The Catholics had been in the position of oppressors, and the Protestants of the oppressed

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

I'm not a proselytizer. I was raised Catholic. I am a Catholic.

— Michael Moore

When you give yourself away you find that a new and more real self has somehow been given to you.

— Peter Kreeft

Neutrinos have mass? i didn't even know they're Catholic!" Robert to Vittoria

— Dan Brown

I don't take any responsibility for the lunatic fringes of my own religion.

— J. K. Rowling

I still go to church occasionally. I went the other day and found peace.

— David LaChapelle

Where the bishop is present, there is the Catholic Church

— Ignatius of Antioch

I come from an Irish Catholic family, and hell-raising is part of the DNA.

— Brian Dennehy

Agnostic for me would be trying to weasel out and sound a little nicer than I am about this.

— Richard P. Feynman