Catholic Quotes · Page 38

I was an altar boy. My mother wanted me to be a priest. I am very Christian and Catholic... I'm very faithful.

— Hugo Chavez

My mom dragged me by my ear to Catholic school because I was a cutup and thought I needed to see the…

— Ed Henry

I'm very interested in religion as something to study, but I'm not a religious person in the slightest.

— Daniel Radcliffe

My dad was in the hood, he was a minister, and he would always put churches in the ghetto.

— Wyclef Jean

I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother.

— Martin Sheen

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

— Jen Ledger

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

My mother was an unbeliever - and still is. My father was a nominal Catholic. We would go in to church at…

— Frederica Mathewes-Green

“I once preached to a man in a telephone booth, Long ago during the days of my youth, I grew up different…

— Lisbon Tawanda Chigwenjere

I was very religious when I was younger. I went to a seminary for three years, studied to be a priest, and…

— Peter P. Mahoney

My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family…

— Tony Blair

We are amphibious creatures, weaponed for two elements, having two sets of faculties, the particular and the catholic.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I was raised with no religious training or influence. Except the influence was to be a moral and ethical person at the…

— Anne Lamott

I was raised Catholic. I was confirmed Catholic (received the sacrament of confirmation). Through my military years, I sort of lost touch…

— Timothy McVeigh

My goal is to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not agnosticism about God alone, but agnosticism about…

— Robert Anton Wilson

I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said,…

— Indra Nooyi

“Actually I am a Christian, and indeed a Roman Catholic, so that I do not expect 'history' to be anything but a…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“I produced a fulsome sermon. When the appointed Sunday arrived, I used all of my best grooming skills. I picked the cat…

— Barbara Brown Taylor

I grew up Presbyterian. Presbyterians thought the Methodists were wrong. Catholics thought all Protestants were wrong. The Jews thought the Christians were…

— John Templeton

I mean, I went to a church school when I was younger and imbibed a certain amount of religion then but it…

— Tony Blair

“This was borne out again in October 1996 when Pope John Paul II, standing in the context of a train of Catholic…

— Mark Shea

“The nice people do not come to God, because they think they are good through their own merits or bad through inherited…

— Fulton J. Sheen

I grew up in a church-going family, a very sort of ordinary, middle-of-the-road Anglican family where nobody really talked about personal Christian…

— N. T. Wright

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

— Pope Benedict XVI

I was a Presbyterian minister at a small church in Omaha, Nebraska.

— Sam Barry

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

I realized during my time as a chaplain that I didn't want to be a minister.

— John Green

Patience, prayer and silence-these are what give strength to the soul.

— Mary Faustina Kowalska

Take care to guard against all greed, for though one may be rich, one's life does not consist of possessions.

— Luke the Evangelist

Sometimes I regret not being Catholic. I think I'd make a pretty good saint.

— Zach Braff

I'm fascinated by Catholic mystics, even though I grew up Mennonite in Pennsylvania.

— Denison Witmer

Well, I'm a Catholic by birth and you can never shed it.

— Anonymous

I'm not myself religious but have no wish to insult or denigrate those who are.

— Martin Rees

Christmas, as a practicing Catholic child, was seen as a reward for lots and lots and lots of church.

— Jenny Colgan

I got a GED based on Catholic school seventh-grade education, really. I didn't make it that far.

— Chris Cornell

Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.

— Bill Condon

We are all born like Catholics, aren't we—in limbo, without religion, until some figure introduces us to God?

— Yann Martel