Catholic Quotes · Page 43

I grew up Catholic, so I had a more traditional relationship with religion.

— Yvonne Orji

“The world offers you comfort. But you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness”

— Pope Benedict XVI

I think spirituality is a good thing but I dislike any sort of dogmatic organization.

— Noah Taylor

In fact, my parents were church people; my father was a deacon in the church.

— Tina Turner

Some men are Baptists, others Catholics. My father was an Oldsmobile man.

— Jean Shepherd

I did not understand the differences between Catholic and Protestant until I was an adult.

— Quentin S. Crisp

The Catholic Church's teachings are authoritative. There is a moral absolute on abortion - that it is wrong.

— Jacob Rees-Mogg

My father was a minister, and I suppose I take after him. He talked a lot professionally, too.

— Agnes Moorehead

You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly…

— Evelyn Waugh

When I was a little kid going to Methodist church, I actually envisioned one day that I would become a minister but…

— Skip Bayless

I'm not condemning the Catholic Church - it's too big, it's like condemning a nation and that would be prejudiced.

— David LaChapelle

My grandmothers on both sides chose not to go to doctors and passed away. We were entrenched in the Christian Science faith.

— Myles Kennedy

Even though I've disconnected myself in some ways from my Mormon background, because I grew up in it, I've remained open to…

— Sophie Thatcher

I'm not Catholic, but I have a great deal of respect for Pope John Paul. I think that he has stood firm…

— James Dobson

Do I observe holy days and holidays? Yeah, the ritual is very important to me. It's part of being Ukrainian Catholic. So…

— Vera Farmiga

I was raised Catholic, and then I kind of wandered away somewhere in high-school. I never got confirmed, which is a big…

— Mike Birbiglia

Finally, I believe in an America where religious intolerance will someday end; where all men and all churches are treated as equal;…

— John F. Kennedy

I still went to church regularly every Sunday; that is we all went there together. I reverenced the family pew where we…

— Pierre Loti

I had a very marginal understanding of what faith in God was growing up because, although I went to a Catholic school,…

— Patricia Mauceri

“You cannot always depend on prayers to be answered the way you want them answered but you can always depend on God.…

— Fulton J. Sheen

In my view, the Catholic Church as a community of faith will be preserved, but only if it abandons the Roman system…

— Hans Kung

“The modern world, which denies personal guilt and admits only social crimes, which has no place for personal repentance but only public…

— Fulton J. Sheen

I felt that the Church was the Church of the poor,... but at the same time, I felt that it did not…

— Dorothy Day

This is America, where a white Catholic male Republican judge was murdered on his way to greet a Democratic Jewish woman member…

— Mark Shields

I was doing worship as a lifestyle before it was a section at the bookstore.

— Israel Houghton

I go to mass every Sunday, which is a shock to everybody.

— Roger Ailes

Souls do not wish to be bullied, but gently brought back; such is the nature of man.

— Saint Francis de Sales

I wasn't raised a Catholic, but Yolanthe was, and I wanted to get more involved in her religion.

— Wesley Sneijder

Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.

— Adam Weishaupt

I think I had an advantage in the sense that I wasn't raised religiously.

— Amber Tamblyn

Faith is something we never discuss at the dinner table in my family, but I do believe in God.

— Volodymyr Zelensky

I was real religious when I was young. I wanted to be a missionary.

— Patti Smith

I did attend Catholic schools up to the ninth grade, and I admire much in the Catholic Church.

— Matthew Scully

I'm actually an athiest. That's kind of deep you must admit.

— Thom Yorke

All you god damn dirty Catholics can cath-o-lick my balls.

— Bo Burnham

You see how wide the gulf that separates me from the Christian church.

— Margaret Fuller

The pure soul is a beautiful rose, and the Three Divine Persons descend from Heaven to inhale its fragrance.

— John Vianney

I'm raising my family in The Church, and I'm proud of that.

— Brandon Flowers

Marital love is a reflection of how God loves. It is free, total, faithful and fruitful.

— Christopher West

Do not walk through time without leaving worthy evidence of your passage.

— Pope John XXIII