Catholic Quotes · Page 33

I think any belief system that says to a person, "I don't need Jesus because I have my ritual" is a problem.

— Greg Laurie

You know I only go to church for two reasons, weddings and funerals, which one we gonna have today?

— Madea

From the age of three on, as far back as I remember, I just knew there was a God behind everything.

— M. Scott Peck

We are no longer able to hear God - There are too many frequencies filling our ears.

— Pope Benedict XVI

In the case of the Catholic Church, it's hard to understand how they so willfully sacrifice the children.

— Alex Gibney

I love it when people can actually engage with the materials of the sacrament in advance.

— Pope Francis

Religion felt gross to me so I walked away from everything.

— Jen Ledger

I don't know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it.

— B. F. Skinner

I accept with sincere belief the doctrine of faith as handed down to us from the Apostles by the orthodox Fathers, always…

— Pope Pius X

The poor are great! The poor are wonderful! The poor are very generous! They give us much more than what we give…

— Mother Teresa

I grew up in the home of a pastor, and my earliest memory is that God really had a plan for my…

— John C. Maxwell

As a matter of fact, I decided in high school that I was going to go to the seminary. And I did…

— Bob Gunton

I was shaken to the extent that people who criticized me used to say that I was Protestant more than a Catholic…

— Pierre Trudeau

I didn't ask to be a hero, but I guess I have become one in the Christian community. So I accept it.…

— Hal Lindsey

Beyond our grasp, He chose to come within our grasp. Existing before time began, He began to exist at a moment in…

— Pope Leo I

Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you…

— Saint Augustine

Most recently, the President's reluctance to offend Senator Rick Santorum -- a Catholic theocrat who believes that states should have the power…

— Bill Keller

It is sufficient to say, what everybody knows to be true, that the Irish population is Catholic, and that the Protestants, whether…

— John Bright

This my goodness does to endow the souls of the just more fully with spiritual riches when for my love they are…

— St. Catherine of Siena

In kindergarten, we had this Irish Catholic headmistress called Sister Leonie, and I remember she would tell us, say, to put the…

— Binyavanga Wainaina

I wrote to my bishop, the Archbishop of Utrecht, Holland, and explained that I wanted not just permission to stay longer, but…

— Henri Nouwen

I know married Catholics in a second union who go to church, who go to church once or twice a year and…

— Pope Francis

In a real world, the one outside the rarified atmosphere where Popes meet Archbishops of Canterbury, people no longer care whether somebody…

— Tom Harpur

“Domestic society being confirmed, therefore, by this bond of love, there should flourish in it that "order of love," as St. Augustine…

— Pope Pius XI

I didn't go to church all the time, just 'cause I was an antsy kid.

— Michael Keaton

“The Catholic Church made a serious mistake when they started caring about how many people are in the pews.”

— Michel Templet

Can words such as Orthodox, Jew, or Catholic really express some sort of exclusive personal virtues or merits?

— Anton Chekhov

In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing.

— Norman Maclean

I have the freedom of seeing it [churches and paintings of saints] with a non-Catholic eye without the guilt.

— Nan Goldin

Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.

— Anonymous

My parents are both scientists, and I was raised without god.

— Sheila Heti

Yes, I'm religious. God has shown me things, made certain ways clear to me.

— Richard Pryor

I'm your basic atheist that believes in maybe - I'm a spiritual atheist.

— Linda Ronstadt

I think of the Catholic worker movement and Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin and others.

— Shane Claiborne

My whole world up until punk was this total repressed Catholic lifestyle.

— Charlotte Caffey

Our prayer cannot be reduced to an hour on Sundays. It is important to have a daily relationship with the Lord.

— Pope Francis

I am a practicing Catholic, but my lineage is Jewish, so if someone asks me if I'm Jewish, I say yes.

— Neve Campbell

When I was almost 13 I was ripe for religion. I was actually just plain ripe.

— Kathie Lee Gifford

Holy Purity is granted by God when it is asked for with humility.

— Josemaria Escriva

“I don't believe in God, I only believe in Al Pacino, and that's the truth.”

— Javier Bardem