Catholic Quotes · Page 57

There is one and only one possible road to joy: selfless love.

— Peter Kreeft

We were looking for a 'good shepherd,' and instead we got a German shepherd.

— Pope Benedict XVI

The closest thing to religion our family had was worshipping The Beatles.

— Alex Wolff

I actually was raised Baptist. I'm from the South, so you definitely know a lot of conservative people.

— Clark Duke

Whatever skills I have acquired, whatever gifts I have been given, I place them at Your service.

— Saint Augustine

I grew up in church and on the block; the best of both worlds.

— BJ the Chicago Kid

The exorcisms I performed and conducted mainly focus on the Catholic ways.

— Zak Bagans

You must be strong, dear brothers and sisters. You must be strong with the strength that comes from faith.

— Pope John Paul II

I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

It would also have been helpful to have gone to a Catholic grammar school. The only people who know grammar are those…

— Fran Lebowitz

I was born in Paris in 1950. I had a strict upper-class Catholic education but I never really fitted in the system…

— Francois Gautier

The purpose of my life had always been to free people from concern. I dubbed it, 'The church of freedom from concern,'…

— Jim Carrey

Protestants do not very often disagree with what Catholics believe, but they do very often disagree with what they think Catholics believe.

— Dwight Longenecker

I still use a lot of good values from growing up in the Church, and there was a sense of community. But…

— Brendon Urie

Coffee is not as necessary to ministers of the reformed faith as to Catholic priests. The latter are not allowed to marry,…

— Elisabeth Charlotte d'Orleans

In Indonesia, I had spent two years at a Muslim school, two years at a Catholic school. In the Muslim school, the…

— Barack Obama

Saint Paul asks his disciple Timothy to "aim at faith" (2 Tim 2:22) with the same constancy as when he was a…

— Pope Benedict XVI

I'm a New Testament Christian. I reject and throw out titles. I'm not a fundamentalist, though I'm fundamental in all of my…

— Bill Bright

In 1989 at Greater Saint Steven Full Gospel Church, I gave my life to Christ. That's pretty much where it all started…

— Avery Johnson

A primatologist told me you can find love in the eyes of an orangutan. It's that old primate gleam that goes back…

— Shawn Thompson

We saw one school-house in our walk, and listened to the sounds which issued from it; but it appeared like a place…

— Henry David Thoreau

It might kill you to say it, because the film really takes on the Catholic Church, but I do think there is…

— Alex Gibney

When I was 18, I went to a Baptist church with my girlfriend, and had a breakthrough when a pastor laid hands…

— Jonathan Cain

If we truly think of Christ as our source of holiness, we shall refrain from anything wicked or impure in thought or…

— Gregory of Nyssa

“But I’m not sitting around praying for revival either. I grew up in the “pray for revival” culture.”

— Andy Stanley

I've always been religiously inclined, but it doesn't come up in most of my books.

— Emma Donoghue

I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Becoming Catholic involves entering into a relationship with the Catholic Church.

— Anonymous

My mom's a Catholic, and my dad's a Jew, and they didn't want anything to do with anything.

— Isabelle Huppert

I didn't go to church a lot at home growing up. I was never even baptized.

— Ice Spice

I can't help it. I want to be a good Catholic, but I'm a hedonist.

— Chris Farley

The Roman Catholics teach that unless you're a Roman Catholic you do not go to heaven.

— Neale Donald Walsch

I've taken a stand against religion for as long I've been able to write and think.

— Roy Harper

We take in more a week now than we did in two years when I first came to the church.

— Johnny Hunt

Religion has given me a new drive in life. Life feels a lot easier than it ever did before.

— Wesley Sneijder

I'd grown up very Catholic, parochial school, and Warlock was a way of working a lot of things out.

— Jim Starlin

I have no problem with people's religious beliefs. I just don't happen to have any.

— Salman Rushdie

I was raised Catholic, but my father's people were Methodist, so we went to both churches.

— Aaron Neville

I grew up in a very Catholic family. Up until puberty, I would go to a Catholic church every week.

— Park Chan-wook

My husband is not a Christian but is a religious man, I think.

— Mary Todd Lincoln