Catholic Quotes · Page 46

My granddad was an elder at our church, so it was a big part of my life growing up.

— Ricky Stenhouse Jr

I was raised Catholic, and I can get incredibly guilty about mistakes.

— Matt Mullenweg

My grandmother was a minister as well, which was not that common in the 1930s.

— Colin Firth

Christian obedience, by its very nature, has a heroic character.

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

Our Catholic schools exist to help young people attain holiness in their lives, that is, to become saints.

— Salvatore J. Cordileone

I've never seen service as separate from my spiritual practice or my spiritual teaching.

— Marianne Williamson

As an atheist and lapsed Catholic, I feel the absence of faith in my own life quite acutely.

— Ron Currie Jr

Im against religion. it only breeds hate and conflict, instead of love and acceptance.

— Anonymous

“I am not opposed to religion. Far from it. I’m for anything that gives people peace. That’s why I am also for…

— Michael Ian Black

White man and black man, jew and gentile, protestant and catholic, will be able to hold hands and sing in the words…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Neither of my parents went to church, but they did everything that you needed to do to be Christian. That's something a…

— Terry Pratchett

Portugal was born in the shadow of the Catholic Church and religion, from the beginning it was the formative element of the…

— Antonio de Oliveira Salazar

“This is the story of how Dad lived with his lung cancer. But it is much more. Through his illness and the…

— Joseph M. Hanneman

The daughter of an ordained minister, I had been forced to go to church since I was a toddler. I hated church…

— Lionel Shriver

I'm spiritual. I'm religious. I'm a strong Christian and I'm a Catholic but I go to a Presbyterian Church. Occasionally I go…

— Wesley Clark

We do hereby command the Leaders of the Hebrew, Catholic and Protestant Churches to sanctify and have us crowned Emperor of the…

— Anonymous

My first encounters with faith came about the time I was a Boy Scout, at about 14 or 15. I made the…

— Max Lucado

I would say that Catholics came in and competed with the Protestant work ethic. That is one thing. And they did assimilate…

— Steve King

Indeed, Mr. Jefferson, what could be invented to debase the ancient Christianism, which Greeks, Romans, Hebrews and Christian factions, above all the…

— John Adams

I want to learn about a different religion. I grew up Catholic, but my grandfather was Jewish. Knowledge about other religions can…

— Mandy Moore

I was born into a Christian household, in a parsonage in fact, so I grew up in sort of a missionary atmosphere…

— Wole Soyinka

My parents were both first-generation Irish Catholics raised in Brooklyn. But it was more for me - it was that women of…

— Alice McDermott

I doubt if anyone of any tenderness or imagination can see the hand of a child and not be a little frightened…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“As a minister of the Lord in whatever way the Lord decides to use you and with the gifts he gives you…

— Daniel Friday Danzor

My mother was Protestant, and in her mind life was more about work and obligations and responsibilities.

— Sylvia Kristel

I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.

— Patricia Ireland

We should not accept in silence the benefactions of God, but return thanks for them.

— Saint Basil

I would say that, intellectually, Catholicism had no more impact on me than did social theory.

— Paul Farmer

Truth is, I'm a good Catholic girl. The faith has always been elusive, but the guilt is intractable.

— Janet Evanovich

My dad was a Presbyterian minister. Yes, I am one of those dreaded P.K.s - Preachers Kids. Be afraid.

— Libba Bray

I grew up in the church and had always questioned what they were telling me.

— Jimmy Cliff

I'm not religious. I would say I'm more spiritual than religious.

— Roxanne McKee

In the end, forever, you and I will be in Heaven or Hell. Period.

— John Corapi

After my father died, we went to church for a long time every day, and then every other day during the summer.

— Kerry Kennedy

Going to church and stuff was just something I did with my mom.

— Andy Mineo

I'm not religious, but I am spiritual and I am creating my own practice.

— Valerie June

I have my own religion. I'm sort of one-quarter Baptist, one-quarter Catholic, one-quarter Jewish.

— Tom T. Hall

I'm against anything atheists represent because I believe in God.

— Alvin Holmes

We can never attain to perfection while we have an affection for any imperfection.

— Saint Francis de Sales

For me growing up, I had a Christian upbringing, and I just noticed this Catholic influence in school.

— Hozier