Catholic Quotes · Page 40

Plenty of people are raised Catholic and then aren't Catholic anymore, like any religion.

— Danny Masterson

I would like to call myself a spiritualist more than an actor.

— Rajinikanth

I grew up Mormon. I wasn't really Mormon, my parents were.

— Ryan Gosling

I'm obviously not an advocate of Christian America or a simplistic view of America as 'a city on a hill.'

— Os Guinness

If I speak of Islamic violence, I must speak of Catholic violence.

— Pope Francis

Many trees have died so that the Catholic Church can preach against homosexuality.

— Jodi Picoult

It's not so much that I'm an atheist so much as the sneaking suspicion that I myself may be god

— Thom Yorke

Ours is the Spirit of the Eucharist, the total Gift of Self.

— Katharine Drexel

We're not thought of in terms of color because we are entertainers. We are there to entertain you not because we are…

— Eartha Kitt

Though I have usually posed as a Catholic, I have not done my duty for 15 years, and have not the slightest…

— James Connolly

It's great to be recognized when I'm looking for a table at a crowded restaurant, but I still don't put it to…

— Christopher Meloni

Although I was raised in a profoundly secular home, I had a belief, an awareness of God, from as far back as…

— M. Scott Peck

Catholics Come Home inspires each of us to share God’s love with others, in order to help change the world for the…

— Roma Downey

We don't normally go on about the fact that Roman Catholics once upon a time didn't have the vote and weren't allowed…

— David Starkey

“I got religion in the third grade, and jeepers, did I need it. The devil was in me, and Hardy Biesterveld wasn't…

— Michael Perry

I went to an all-girls' Catholic school for, like, six years during the time when kids actually had handwriting class. I've always…

— Meghan Markle

We cannot avoid the globalization of knowledge and information. When I was a boy growing up in Kansas, I could never think…

— Richard Rohr

My grandfather was Catholic; my grandmother, Jewish. Crossing over from Bavaria, as immigrants to the United States, the ship started to sink.…

— Emanuel Celler

Both my parents were atheists, and my grandmother was an atheist in rural Kentucky, and so they were trying to make sure…

— Andrew Sean Greer

Over the years I've had strong friendships with many priests. As a matter of fact, a group of Christian leaders from the…

— Dave Brubeck

We, as Catholics are not permitted to believe anything of our own will, nor to choose what someone has believed of his.…

— Isidore of Seville

During my childhood, my father, a Southern Baptist minister, and my mother, a teacher, made sure I took educational trips to cities…

— Anonymous

If the bishops are saying that it is divine revelation that seven percent of unemployment is morally unacceptable and that that is…

— Bruce Babbitt

Now you know well that the most deadly foes of the Catholic religion have always waged a fierce war, but without success,…

— Pope Pius IX

To become a lapsed Catholic, first go to a Catholic university.

— Susan Sarandon

In the poor and outcast we see Christ’s face; by loving and helping the poor, we love and serve Christ.

— Pope Francis

[My catholic education] sticked with me. It caused the rage I had to make 'Pink Flamingos.'

— John Waters

Neutrinos have mass? i didn't even know they're Catholic!" Robert to Vittoria

— Dan Brown

I still go to church occasionally. I went the other day and found peace.

— David LaChapelle

I don't take any responsibility for the lunatic fringes of my own religion.

— J. K. Rowling

Where the bishop is present, there is the Catholic Church

— Ignatius of Antioch

I come from an Irish Catholic family, and hell-raising is part of the DNA.

— Brian Dennehy

I'm not a proselytizer. I was raised Catholic. I am a Catholic.

— Michael Moore

When you give yourself away you find that a new and more real self has somehow been given to you.

— Peter Kreeft

The Catholics had been in the position of oppressors, and the Protestants of the oppressed

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

I've been an atheist ever since I heard there was only a stairway to heaven

— Stella Young

The true religion has always been one from the beginning, and will always be the same.

— Saint Augustine

Every Catholic is one good Confession away from potential sainthood.

— Patrick Madrid

God must love tow surfers - and I'm not a religious person.

— Garrett McNamara

I'm pretty much an atheist, so I'd say this world is the only thing we got.

— Jeff Hanneman