Catholic Quotes · Page 56

Jesus, help me to simplify my life by learning what you want me to be and becoming that person.

— Therese of Lisieux

Preacher's Daughter' was speaking on my experience in the church and as a child.

— Ethel Cain

Y'know, if those pews reclined, and the priests gave the Raiders scores I'd go to church every Sunday.

— George Lopez

It is impossible for us not to speak about what we have seen and heard.

— Saint Peter

“[God] disciplines us for our good, that we may share His holiness.”

— Scott Hahn

I was raised in a nominal Roman Catholic home, but without any really strong faith there.

— Frederica Mathewes-Green

You wouldn't expect a Christian character to be an Indie rocker guy.

— Samuel Larsen

I was raised an Episcopalian. And I did not and I don't believe that anyone is looking out for me personally.

— Joan Didion

I found out that many of our Catholics simply don't know what the church teaches, and why, on a lot of issues,…

— Roger Mahony

I think the reason why more rapists go into the military is the same reason why predators go into the Catholic Church.…

— Bill Maher

I was offered the opportunity to narrate the Catholic bible, and it was something I really wanted to be involved with.

— John Rhys-Davies

I know many Catholics love God with all their heart. I have genuine respect for anyone who truly has given their life…

— Bill McCartney

I wanted to be a missionary and work abroad, but girls started to become a bigger part of my life around the…

— James McAvoy

There are only two or three places in Britain with Catholic and Protestant cathedrals,and Liverpool is one. My wife Montse and I…

— Rafael Benitez

St. Patrick's Day is a holy day for Roman Catholics in Ireland to pray and a day for drunk people to vomit…

— Margot Leitman

I was Catholic. You talk about a minority within a minority within a minority: a black Catholic in Savannah, GA.

— Clarence Thomas

This guy from L.A. sits down next to me, and he says 'you like baseball?' I said, 'Oh, man, I love baseball.'…

— Bill Engvall

A woman who sets her rights, the supposed right to privacy or right over her own body, above the life of another…

— Janet E. Smith

Totalitarianism is neither left nor right, and within its empire both will perish. I was never a believer, but after seeing Czech…

— Milan Kundera

“Now: unlike ourselves, the Father of Jesus loves men and women, not for what He finds in them, but for what lies…

— James Burtschaell

I was ordained into the ministry through my local church in February of 2000. I had already been doing a lot of…

— Ted DiBiase Sr

I protect my right to be a Catholic by preserving your right to believe as a Jew, a Protestant, or non-believer, or…

— Mario Cuomo

I'm an agnostic in the truest sense of the word. I think about these things - I grew up Roman Catholic, I've…

— Ronald D. Moore

Real love is demanding. I would fail in my mission if I did not clearly tell you so. For it was Jesus…

— Pope John Paul II

I don't live in the papal residence. I live in a simple apartment behind the Vatican gas station.

— Pope Francis

If you were raised in Oklahoma, you've got to be a Southern Baptist or something.

— Anita Bryant

I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood.

— Don DeLillo

Whenever anything disagreeable or displeasing happens to you, remember Christ crucified and be silent.

— John of the Cross

Who except God can give you peace? Has the world ever been able to satisfy the heart?

— Gerard Majella

''I don't believe in a God, but I know that the kind of love I believe in accepts everyone for who they're.''

— Jeremy Limn

I was an altar boy, which I loved and am very proud of. It was strict, but also really nice.

— Michael Keaton

Truth is I don't think God on a daily basis. I think politics, science.

— Peter Mullan

I'm an atheist how unfortunate it is to assign responsibility to the higher up for justice amongst people,

— Ani DiFranco

I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.

— Vera Farmiga

I'm one of those people that, if I'm in the country, I will have a look inside an old church.

— Alison Goldfrapp

In real life I don't chant. Nor do I believe in idol worship.

— Abhay Deol

I grew up very religious, and I don't have a great relationship with religion.

— Brad Pitt

I place trust in God, my creator, in all things; I love Him with all my heart.

— Joan of Arc

I've never really separated out the spiritual and the secular.

— Alan Green

You know, I was the class clown in Catholic school, but I never thought I would make a living out of it!

— Sofia Vergara