Catholic Quotes · Page 47

If you live in New York, even if you're Catholic, you're Jewish

— Anonymous

Do not wander far and wide but return into yourself. Deep within man there dwells the truth.

— Saint Augustine

My mother's early life revolved around the Methodist faith.

— Carol Thatcher

Yes, though I have nothing but gratitude for my upbringing in the church.

— John McGahern

I was raised Catholic... I fell in love with certain ideals.

— Jon Voight

I've been a little bit obsessed with religion, without being a religious person, for about a decade.

— Tom Perrotta

I tend to place my own value in spirituality rather than religiosity.

— Kitty Kelley

No religion, I'm just so explicit, I coexist in places you would never know existed.

— Ab-Soul

Forgiveness is above all a personal choice, a decision of the heart to go against the natural instinct to pay back evil…

— Pope John Paul II

My music is music that Christians and Catholics can listen to. Muslims. Buddhists. And non-religious people as well. It's just music. You…

— Jeremy Enigk

Begin your story with a sentence that will immediately grab hold of your listener's ears like a surly nun in a Catholic…

— Amy Sedaris

When my father died, it sounds kind of simple but I just had the desire to step up and pastor the church.…

— Joel Osteen

“It is very useful for those who minister the word of God, or give themselves up to prayer, to read the works…

— Anonymous

Of all devotions, that of adoring Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament is the greatest after the sacraments, the one dearest to God…

— Alphonsus Liguori

The way Jesus shows you is not easy. Rather, it is like a path winding up a mountain. Do not lose heart!…

— Pope John Paul II

I'm not religious, but I've always been attracted to the rituals of religion; as a kid, Sunday church was the closest thing…

— Missy Mazzoli

I went to a Catholic high school, which, to this day, I could burn down. And I got great revenge because they…

— John Waters

My mother converted when I was 16. She was the driving force behind religion in our family. So, I'm sure I was…

— Ross Douthat

So many people grew up in the church, and you can have an awesome upbringing, but I made a personal conviction; I…

— AJ Michalka

My mom was very spiritual. We were a Catholic family. We read the Bible at a young age. I have two brothers…

— Matt Cullen

I don't believe in school prayer. I think it's total nonsense...who is the teacher there that is going to have them pray?…

— Charles M. Schulz

'Catholic writer' seems like you have an agenda of evangelization, as if you were somehow influenced in your choice of perspective by…

— Mary Gordon

I grew up in a French-dominated Catholic part of the country. I was an altar boy. I went to Catholic school. I…

— James Carville

Dig: I'm Jewish. Count Basie's Jewish. Ray Charles is Jewish. Eddie Cantor's goyish. B'nai B'rith is goyish; Hadassah, Jewish. If you live…

— Lenny Bruce

I wasn't looking for religion; I was looking for a world view.

— John Eldredge

True charity consists in doing good to those who do us evil, and in thus winning them over.

— Alphonsus Liguori

“[Francis of Assisi was one of the] signal figures who are catalysts for rapid change”

— Jon M. Sweeney

I'm interested in God. I'm not interested in religion for religion's sake.

— Ezra Furman

From my childhood I had been intended for the clergy. This prospect hung like a dark cloud on my mind.

— Nikola Tesla

I was raised a black child in the South, where you're indoctrinated into a religion that an oppressor gave you.

— Killer Mike

Listen in silence because if your heart is full of other things you cannot hear the voice of God

— Mother Teresa

I find it more comfortable to say I'm an atheist, and for that I probably have someone like Dawkins to thank.

— Jim Al-Khalili

I'm an agnostic trending toward atheist and resist, in particular, Christian interpretations and imagery.

— Jeff Vandermeer

My family is still very Southern Baptist, and they're religious.

— Missi Pyle

What I do not like is militant secularism, whereby anything is acceptable as long as it's not Christian.

— Ann Widdecombe

I've been no-platformed from every university with a strong Islamic faith community.

— Katie Hopkins

I have no sense of nationalism, only a cosmic consciousness of belonging to the human family.

— Rosika Schwimmer

I grew up in a church. My mom is a minister so she would make us go to every possible church she…

— Saint Jhn

I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament...

— J. R. R. Tolkien

I was in there standin' by the bed when the preacher bowed his head with the family, the day my grandma die.

— Jake Owen