Catholic Quotes · Page 58

I don't go by my caste, creed or religion. My works speak for me.

— Shashi Tharoor

I am Catholic. But I am opposed to a monopoly when it comes to faith.

— Evo Morales

Before I was a journalist, I was a preacher in Georgia and Kentucky.

— Shaun King

I never rejected religion, but it just ceased to be an overriding concern in my life.

— David Lowery

Pray, hope and don't worry. Anxiety doesn't help at all. Our Merciful Lord will listen to your prayer.

— Pio of Pietrelcina

I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American.

— John Cusack

I was raised as a Catholic, but I didn't like the Catholic Church at all. I thought the nuns were mean.

— Francis Ford Coppola

I was raised in a heavily Catholic family. Early and consistent encounters with mysticism.

— Nic Pizzolatto

Let's start with the church. As you know, it's my background, it's a natural setting for me and it's definitely my roots.

— Aretha Franklin

A good Catholic meddles in politics, offering the best of himself, so that those who govern can govern. But what is the…

— Pope Francis

My parents are pretty religious, devout, but did they force it on me? No, I don't think so. I still think of…

— Kristen Schaal

I always dug the stuff like the covered dish suppers because I could feel the fun and the joy of what church…

— Edi Patterson

Hi Bethany,I rgineoczed your description of the religious organization that influenced your family. My family belonged to the same group for 5…

— Gurvinder

Accept the risen Jesus into your life. Even if you have been far away, take a small step towards Him. He awaits…

— Pope Francis

They say the Catholic church played a big role in the genocide... and now they have me, a bishop, as proof, a…

— Augustin Misago

I think being a Catholic made me a better person. It taught me how to choose good over evil, and how to…

— Sonia Sotomayor

The story wafts across the Atlantic, where it's picked up with glee by Catholic progressives and horror by some Catholic conservatives -…

— George Weigel

I was born again. It happens to Episcopalians. Sometimes it doesn't hit you till you're 47 years old. It changed my whole…

— Ann B. Davis

Diabolical error decks itself out with ease in lying colors with some appearance of truth, so that the force of pronouncement is…

— Pope Clement XIII

When I went to Catholic high school in Philadelphia, we just had one coach for football and basketball. He took all of…

— George Raveling

If you are an Arabic-speaking, Greek-Orthodox going to a French school it makes you deeply sceptical if you have to listen to…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I understand perfectly well why the Catholic Church preaches against abortion. But it shouldn't be the purpose of the Catholic Church to…

— Andrew Solomon

I was interested in the question of the power of religious organizations to effect public policy in a negative way. When I…

— Barry W. Lynn

I am an Episcopalian who takes the faith of my fathers seriously, and I would, I think, be disheartened if my own…

— Jon Meacham

We must speak to them with our hands by giving, before we try to speak to them with our lips.

— Peter Claver

I grew up Jewish, became an atheist and a Marxist, and 28 years ago, at age 26, became a Christian.

— Marvin Olasky

No one is truly poor but except the one who lacks the truth.

— Ephrem the Syrian

A Buddhist or a good atheist is as acceptable to God as a good Catholic.

— Pat Buckley

I hold religious tendencies, but I'm not devout by any means.

— Anderson East

I think the Catholic and Protestant churches have become very stagnant.

— Sally Quinn

I used to be Irish Catholic. Now I'm an American - you know, you grow.

— George Carlin

I have no right to say I believe in God unless I order my life as under His all-seeing Eye.

— Oswald Chambers

That's not to say that I'm a well-informed Catholic. I'm still in idiot.

— Jim Gaffigan

I was raised Catholic, but the devil was never with a pitchfork.

— Parker Posey

I was raised a Christian and was a stone-faced acid head.

— Ken Kesey

I come from a very hospitable, close, Catholic, matriarchal family.

— Francesca Annis

What profit is there for one to gain the whole world and forfeit his life? -Mark 8:36

— Bible

Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity.

— Saint Augustine

I had a very moral upbringing, and spiritual in a sort of not very specific way.

— James Taylor

I taught English, first at a Catholic school and then at El Toro High School in Lake Forest, Calif.

— Elizabeth George