Catholic Quotes · Page 36

I think it's a cop-out to say I'm a Christian but I don't ever do anything...

— Joel Osteen

I'm a linear thinking agnostic, but not an atheist folks.

— Neil Peart

I believe people ought to mate for life...like pigeons or Catholics.

— Woody Allen

It is not among the palm trees that I wish to die, but among the poor who are Jesus Christ.

— Luigi Orione

I grew up in the Episcopal Church in Alaska, but my belief was superficial and flimsy.

— Kirsten Powers

I think the neoatheists have set atheism back a few decades. And I'm a self-described atheist.

— Matt Stone

I was brought up Catholic, and my family is still very religious.

— Donna Mills

I come from a blue-collar, Irish Catholic, pro-Kennedy, pro-union family of Democrats.

— Steve Bannon

Cardinal Dolan, of course, has a very, very hard job: trying to hold up Catholic family values in sexually liberal New York…

— Stephen Colbert

I grew up in a small, strictly-Catholic fishing village on the coast of Wales. The people there have a different attitude to…

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

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

If I have any worth, it is to live my life for God so as to teach these peoples; even though some…

— Saint Patrick

I got kicked out of Catholic school, by the way, because I was too feminine. I was too feminine and I had…

— Carmen Carrera

The Catholic faith never changes. But the language and mode of manifesting this one faith can change according to peoples, times and…

— Francis Arinze

...if you ask me whether or not I'm an atheist, I wouldn't even answer. I would first want an explanation of what…

— Noam Chomsky

The Mafia has higher standards than the Catholic Church hierachy because if their members were "raping children, they'd off them."

— Ernie Chambers

Better that only a few Catholics should be left, staunch and sincere in their religion, than that they should, remaining many, desire…

— Peter Canisius

When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the world-old, world-wide religio of amulets and holy places and priestcraft. Protestantism,in its corresponding decay, becomes…

— C. S. Lewis

We should not bear it with bad grace if the answer to our prayer is long delayed. Rather, let us, because of…

— Saint John Chrysostom

Perhaps the dumbest of these story lines is that [Pope] Francis has re-opened conversation and debate in a Church that had been…

— George Weigel

I do a certain amount of work in religious communities on these issues. It's not the central focus of my work but…

— Bill McKibben

Everyone related to me in my circle was from church: church friends, church school, church activities. All my friends weren't allowed to…

— Katy Perry

The instructor has to teach history, cosmogony, psychology, ethics, the laws of nations. How can he do it without saying anything favorable…

— Robert Dabney

It is true, these Roman Catholics, priests and all, impress me as a people who have fallen far behind the significance of…

— Henry David Thoreau

Every kid that goes to Catholic school believes he's going to be a priest one day.

— Cheech Marin

When I was little, my grandmother would take me to church with her, and she would introduce me to people.

— Karin Slaughter

The Holy Father held a special place in the hearts of more than 1 billion Catholics worldwide.

— Todd Akin

An ignorance of Marx is as frequent among Marxists as an ignorance of Christ is among Catholics.

— Jose Bergamin

I went to Catholic school and they basically just said don't have sex, but would never explain anything.

— Khloe Kardashian

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

— Anonymous

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

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

— Michel Templet

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

— B. F. Skinner

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

— Michael Keaton

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

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