Catholic Quotes · Page 35

I had an Irish Catholic education. Horrible nuns, vindictive and cruel.

— John Lydon

I grew up Methodist and went to church until my parents gave up on religion when I was nine.

— Alex Grey

Love endures everything, love is stronger than death, love fears nothing.

— Mary Faustina Kowalska

I have a lot of mental scars from being brought up Catholic and being sent to Catholic school for 13 years!

— Mat McNerney

My mother was a regular church-goer and was very tolerant.

— Emma Bonino

It's true, harm to Catholics must always be avoided, and all of us do this...but not at the price of the truth!

— Pope Francis

The Sisters were Southern Baptist, and they went to church on Saturdays and Sundays, and most other days, too.

— Kami Garcia

I think there's a God and I know it's not me. I don't have a set of tenets, but I live an…

— Michael J. Fox

Coming from the cotton plantation, the southern regions, I was brought up with real nice kids, mannered kids, who would go to…

— Luther Allison

I grew up in the South and once you get raised on Jesus, it is kind of always a part of you…

— Amy Ray

The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagation of the holy…

— Anonymous

I have nowhere claimed nor even implied that unbelief is a guarantee of good conduct or even an indicator of it.

— Christopher Hitchens

I didn't have a curfew and always slept at friends' houses, but on Sundays, Mom dragged me to church. It was the…

— Skip Bayless

Our culture places a very high value on storytelling, and the more that Catholic writers are able to master that craft, the…

— Regina Doman

The coming of the kingdom of God cannot be observed, and no one will announce, 'Look, here it is,' or, 'There it…

— Luke the Evangelist

I'd be more willing to accept religion, even if I didn't believe it, if I thought it made people nicer to each…

— Andy Rooney

The sacred rites, although not instituted specifically for proving the truth of the dogmas of the Catholic Faith incontrovertibly, are effectively the…

— Pope Leo XIII

To students: I pray that all those young people who have graduated, do not carry just a piece of paper with them…

— Mother Teresa

It's maybe hard to believe, but as a kid I really had a lot of self-doubts. My father was very ill -…

— Diane Kruger

See it's easy as cake, simple as whistling Dixie While I'm waving the pistol at sixty Christians against me Go to war…

— Eminem

A Christian anarchist has no business belonging to such a reactionary organization [the Catholic Church]. I do not believe in original sin,…

— Ammon Hennacy

The facts tell us that no religious Faith releases - or ever has released at any moment in History - a higher…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

We're a Muslim family, but we're also very cultured and we have a mixture of different religions. For example, my brother-in-law is…

— Rima Fakih

I attended Catholic school. We received a great education from the nuns. ... Also, guilt. Guilt and a feeling of never being…

— George Saunders

“Wherever men are still theological there is still some chance of their being logical.”

— G.K. Chesterton

Lord, if your people need me, I will not refuse the work. Your will be done.

— Martin of Tours

It was during my time at secondary school that I abandoned religion.

— Paul Nurse

I'm a pro-life Roman Catholic conservative, always have been.

— Michael Steele

You give Italy Jesus Christ and you get the Roman Catholic Church.

— Indro Montanelli

The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.

— Samora Machel

“Every time I think about that girl, my mind commits a sin.”

— Jake Vander Ark

I grew up as a Southern Baptist with strict adherence to the Bible, which I read as a youngster.

— E. O. Wilson

I never had good grades until I dropped out of religion. And then suddenly, my grades went up.

— Ari Shaffir

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

— Steve Garvey

Marriage is a living sign that truly communicates the love of Christ and the Church.

— Christopher West

I am a lover of what is, not because I'm a spiritual person, but because it hurts when I argue with reality.

— Byron Katie

Don't jump down - folks, contraception in the Catholic Church is a thing.

— Rush Limbaugh

Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference which is an elegant name for ignorance.

— Anonymous

As a child, I was deeply religious and went to church every Sunday.

— Sheila Hancock

We cannot trust in our own strength, but only in Jesus and in his mercy.

— Pope Francis