Catholic Quotes · Page 52

If a future Pope teaches anything contrary to the Catholic Faith, do not follow him.

— Pope Pius IX

Rectory always sounded to me like a place where you would find a proctologist.

— Jeff Lindsay

My father was a pastor, my mother was the quintessential pastor's wife.

— Heather Headley

I was raised in church, and we let our kids know who Jesus is.

— Jay DeMarcus

I was brought up a Roman Catholic, so when I was a child I was frogmarched to church every Sunday.

— Harry Enfield

I'm not a religious person. I'm Catholic, so I consider myself more of a spiritual person. I believe in God.

— Tracey Gold

I was brought up in a household where I was not allowed to take the Lord's name in vain.

— Evangeline Lilly

We've always had issues up for discussion at Catholic universities.

— William P. Leahy

I grew up going to Catholic school and I was altar boy even going back to the days where the altar boys…

— Ernie Johnson Jr

I started really believing and understanding what it meant to be a follower of Jesus when I was probably in high school…

— Clayton Kershaw

My grandma always had two gods: Jesus Christ and the United States of America. I was no different, and neither was anyone…

— J. D. Vance

My mom had grown up in the South. Louisiana and Georgia. She had been deeply religious. Baptist, then Mormon. She had worked…

— Dustin Lance Black

I wouldn't say I'm die-hard religious, but I have my beliefs. I grew up right on the beach. We would wear flip-flops…

— Ryan Zimmerman

I began to feel that if religion was either an illusion or a revelation, it was simpler to accept it as an…

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

That is the job of the Catholic Church, to be a balance to the materialistic drives of our culture and of economy.

— David Brooks

I'm eradicating the word Protestant even out of my vocabulary. .. I'm protesting anything. .. it's time for Catholics and non-Catholics to…

— Paul Crouch

If during the Reformation you were a Catholic who lived in a part of Germany in which Lutheranism was the ascendant religion…

— Susan Jacoby

Gert was always of the mind that she wouldn't go to another church except the Catholic Church. So when I would date…

— Wesley Clark

Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed…

— Pope John Paul II

I'm Jewish, but my mom's Catholic, so the guilt area is covered. I have the highest expectations, along with the lowest. I…

— Ben Stiller

My parents gave me the gift of irreligion, of growing up without bothering to ask people what gods they held dear, assuming…

— Salman Rushdie

Cuban agents are assigned to a Catholic Church where their instructions are to beat, jail and intimidate the Ladies In White that…

— Marco Rubio

I went to work for Catholics United for the Faith, and I basically found myself in the midst of the traditionalist branch…

— Regina Doman

My parents were a little more on the hippie spectrum of Christianity - they weren't liberal Christians by any means, they were…

— Weyes Blood

I attend Trinity United Church of Christ, and my pastor [was] Jeremiah Wright.

— Barack Obama

“Online affiliation with good causes is good netiquette. Stand for something!”

— David Chiles

Just because I don't harass it like some peoples us know don't mean I ain't got religion.

— Alice Walker

Let us learn from Christ how to pray, to forgive, to sow peace, and to be near those in need.

— Pope Francis

I was pretty Irish Catholic Jersey, the middle of the line.

— Ryan McGinley

“a criminal sketch of Christ on a diner napkin -'Poet Prophets”

— Amber Koneval

I go to church in Argentina and I try to keep it up during the tournaments.

— Juan Martin del Potro

I'm personally a nonbeliever, so I'm struggling with if we really need religion.

— Frans de Waal

As you may know, I was raised in an Italian Catholic family in Baltimore, Maryland.

— Nancy Pelosi

I am surprised that anyone can profess to be an atheist.

— Ray Comfort

I was educated by monks - I thank them dearly for the education they gave me, but I am no longer a…

— Antony Gormley

I'm not a religious person. Chances are that the universe neither treasures nor regrets us.

— Lionel Shriver

I distrust a charity that costs nothing and does not hurt.

— Pope Francis

I was once a skeptic but was converted by the two missionaries on either side of my nose.

— Robert Breault

In my family, we were Americans, we were Republicans and we were Methodists.

— Hillary Clinton

I'm a traditionalist. I'm a Latin mass Catholic, and I hold to traditional views of responsibility.

— Pat Buchanan