Catholic Quotes · Page 34

I was going to go to church, but I decided to get doughnuts instead.

— Janet Evanovich

God does not ask for 'religious' art or 'Catholic' art. The art he wants for himself is Art, with all its teeth

— Jacques Maritain

I came to know Christ at the age of 13 during church camp at Glorieta, New Mexico.

— Bart Millard

My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.

— Anne Carson

People are always surprised when I say that I'm an atheist.

— Jodie Foster

Catholics have guilt and Jews have guilt, fine. But mothers can trump them all.

— Diane Lane

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I’m an atheist, and a militant atheist when religion starts impacting on legislation.

— Daniel Radcliffe

“I was raised a Roman Catholic, but it was the kind of domesticated Catholicism that focused mostly on the length of your…

— Gina Barreca

I do need to explore my faith, because it has got lost over the years and it has been kind of tainted…

— Johnny Vegas

[The Catholic religion] was something I carried with me, never forgot, brought into my music. And it's been in my music ever…

— Bruce Springsteen

I spent my entire Irish Catholic youth in a constant state of guilt over imaginary sins. I learned that nothing is a…

— Terry Wogan

I didn't want to raise my daughter in the church because from what I experienced and what I saw, the church becomes…

— Leah Remini

The most generous choices, especially the persevering, are the fruit of profound and prolonged union with God in prayerful silence.

— Pope John Paul II

I grew up going to church every Sunday and my mother was a drug and alcohol counselor, so both of my parents'…

— Peter Hedges

I did think of becoming a priest quite late on, when other boys were thinking of knocking over fences and going out…

— Colm Toibin

For someone whose roots in America were strong but only inches deep, and who had no experience, such as a Catholic child…

— Philip Roth

I came to America at the age of 17 as an exchange student, and a year later, I was a student at…

— Dinesh D'Souza

I was raised Catholic,I took from that was a sense of theater and drama, and also the idea that there were truths…

— George Saunders

A Catholic would be guilty of formal cooperation in evil, and so unworthy to present himself for Holy Communion, if he were…

— Pope Benedict XVI

The Germans take quite a knock for the holocaust, but the Catholic church manages to push more people into death, disease, and…

— Terence McKenna

To a mind like mine, restless, inquisitive, and observant of everything that was passing, it is easy to suppose that religion was…

— Nat Turner

“Many fervent Christians who are moved by the Passion and death of Christ on the Cross no longer have the strength to…

— Robert Sarah

I am not sure but I should betake myself in extremities to the liberal divinities of Greece, rather than to my country's…

— Henry David Thoreau

I, personally, am unable to accept any revealed religion, Christian or not.

— Bronislaw Malinowski

I don't have any superstitions, because I am a Christian.

— Wanderlei Silva

I was raised Catholic, and I knew of Him and certainly what He did, but I never truly experienced knowing Him.

— Shawn Michaels

I wasn't raised with a specific religion. I wasn't raised to judge people in any way.

— Kristin Kreuk

I grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu'ran easily at the age of five.

— Akhmad Kadyrov

Think well. Speak well. Do well. These three things, through the mercy of God, will make a man go to Heaven.

— Camillus de Lellis

You need to know your faith. You cannot give what you do not have.

— John Corapi

Making your dad happy is - especially for an Italian Catholic girl, I'll tell you - it feels really good.

— Lady Gaga

Hey, I'm a Catholic deer hunter, I am happy to be clinging to my guns and my religion.

— Paul Ryan

“If there was Altar Server training to do, I was ready to help. Exciting, right? It was for me.”

— Charles Benedict

I grew up in a religious environment, and I'm proud of it.

— Clarence Thomas

It wasn't until my second year that I got to actually work with Church.

— Stephen Cole Kleene

The best way not to find the bed too cold is to go to bed colder than the bed is.

— Carlo Borromeo

My father was a religious leader in the community, and my sister is a pastor.

— Roger Ross Williams

It took like 5 hours to complete my virgin Mary. I was raised Catholic and it seemed like a good idea.

— The Rev

I built my church on Easter services, Christmas Eve services, and Norman Vincent Peale.

— Robert H. Schuller