Catholic Quotes · Page 44

“If you’ve never been to a Catholic Mass, don’t worry, it’s still going on, you still have time to catch it.”

— Jim Gaffigan

I am not so much for the freedom of religion as I am for the religion of freedom.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

We used to watch 'The X Factor' every week but I was brought up in church.

— Raye

I grew up in the church, and I feel very strongly about it.

— Mary Ann Mobley

I'm Jewish; I'm not religious at all, and I wouldn't pretend to know anything about Catholic politics.

— Stephen Frears

The cross means there is no shipwreck without hope; there is no dark without dawn; nor storm without haven.

— Pope John Paul II

I follow no doctrine. I don't belong to a church or a temple or a synagogue or an ashram.

— Meryl Streep

I was a Catholic boy, redeemed through pain, not through joy.

— Jim Carroll

I first decided that I wanted to act when I was 9. And I was at a very bizarre prep school at…

— John Hurt

The Child, the Lord Jesus Christ . . . Word in our flesh, Wisdom in infancy, Power in weakness, and in true…

— Pope Leo I

The most powerful weapon to conquer the devil is humility. For, as he does not know at all how to employ it,…

— Vincent de Paul

My mom and I weren't that close when I was growing up because she was gone seven days of the week; she…

— Goldlink

Going to Catholic school was what fueled me into comedy. The nuns were so brutal so I used to try to make…

— Anonymous

You can count on one hand the number of Novus Ordo churches in this country that feature a fully Catholic music program…

— Richard Morris

I grew up without religion, but my parents have always been somewhat mystical about nature: The mountain is looking at us, stuff…

— Phil Elverum

I suppose you could sum up the religious aspects of my boyhood by saying it was a time of life when I…

— Robert Vaughn

I'm not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of…

— Christopher Hitchens

We all have views on what our Irishness means to us. Two members of the band were born in England and were…

— Larry Mullen, Jr

And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

If young gentlemen get from their years in college only manliness, esprit de corps, a release of their social gifts, a training…

— Woodrow Wilson

The retirement of Athanasius, which ended only with the life of Constantius, was spent, for the most part, in the society of…

— Edward Gibbon

The Germans now seem the primary example of this [institutional-maintenance type] - which is another reason to scratch the head at their…

— George Weigel

I was baptized as an infant. I was confirmed as an adolescent; I was active in my church's youth group and in…

— John Shelby Spong

I was brought up Catholic and we show my mom, my mother, my sister and then I take pains to explain on…

— Bill Maher

“The person is a good towards which the only proper attitude is love.”

— Pop John Paul II

The true friends of the people are neither revolutionaries, nor innovators, but traditionalists.

— Pope Pius X

Apart from the cross, there is no other ladder by which we may get to heaven.

— Rose of Lima

I mean, I grew up with pretty down-to-earth, atheist parents, but I was born a Pisces.

— Melissa Auf der Maur

Feelings come to us, passively; love comes from us, actively, by our free choice.

— Peter Kreeft

I am drawn to Christ but I have real problems with the Catholic Church.

— Andres Serrano

I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.

— Edna O'Brien

In my house, I'm not allowed to shout at anybody. It's very strict. It's a very Christian home.

— Joel Courtney

I sang with Anita Bryant in the Southern Baptist churches.

— Kathie Lee Gifford

I had not found a new religion but I had found a new faith.

— Marlo Morgan

I was brought up in a Christian home in Australia with a father who was very bold about his faith.

— Ken Ham

If only the catholic church put as much effort into protecting children as it does it's own dogma.

— Anonymous

I was raised Catholic. I went to Catholic school for 12 years.

— Megan Fox

I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.

— Oscar Niemeyer

“Catholics are always trying to find out if you’re Catholic.”

— J.D. Salinger

This is my religion. I take long breaks now when I don't perform and I am not myself when I am not…

— Roy Haynes