I think the word is counter-productive. Capitalism is counter-productive to art, just as the Catholic Church was counter-productive to art four hundred… — Mick Farren Copy Share Image
I was a fervent Catholic, and I belonged to the national organizations, even becoming one of the national leaders, until the age… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all. And faith means believing the incredible, or it… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine, There’s always laughter and good red wine. At least I’ve always found it so. Benedicamus Domino! — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Before everything else, fidelity to the Church: One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic. Jesus did not found several churches, but one single Church. — Pope John XXIII Copy Share Image
Should the Catholic Church find itself discriminated against by the Obama administration on key delivery of services because of the bias and… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
He [Christ] protects their faith and gives strength to believers in proportion to the trust that each man who receives that strength… — Cyprian Copy Share Image
I was raised in a Christian household and went to a Christian high school, so I believe in creationism, for sure. — Blake Griffin Copy Share Image
You do not mean by mystery what a Catholic does. You mean an interesting uncertainty: the uncertainty ceasing interest ceases also… But… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
It is an absurd law [Section 295A of the Indian penal code] but also extremely dangerous because it gives fanatics, whether they… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“One of them is a very familiar personage. Her name is “Mother Church.” She is, in many ways, an admirable and dedicated… — Rosemary Haughton Copy Share Image
I grew up as a Mormon, and that had more of an impact on my values than my beliefs. I'm afraid I… — Amy Adams Copy Share Image
“Some though Dad was irreverent--that he was not respectful enough. Once, a visiting preacher concluded his sermon by yelling to everyone that… — Andy Andrews Copy Share Image
“Well the first War of the Machines seems to be drawing to its final inconclusive chapter - leaving, alas, everyone the poorer,… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I was born into a working class Irish Catholic family at the brutal bottom of the Great Depression. I suppose this early… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
I protect my right to be a Catholic by preserving your right to believe as a Jew, a Protestant, or non-believer, or… — Mario Copy Share Image
“God seemed to have become a brand, a packaging, and people purchase this trusted brand with such faith and devotion that they… — Justin Villanueva Copy Share Image
I've been around so long, I can remember when it was a rhetorical question to ask, "Is the pope Catholic?" Now it's… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Growing up, in church we had the homily; at home it's what I call the 'momily' - the inspirational and instructive mom-isms… — Christine Pelosi Copy Share Image
I could have ended up a casualty of a broken family, like so many of the kids around me in inner city… — Tony Evans Copy Share Image
My wife and I like to go to church if we're in town. On Sundays, I try to be as chill as… — Josh Duhamel Copy Share Image
It's very Canadian of me - or maybe it's more the Catholic schoolgirl in me - but I always really want to… — Samantha Bee Copy Share Image
If you know that I am an unbeliever, then you know me better than I do myself. I may be an unbeliever,… — Pier Paolo Pasolini Copy Share Image
I was raised in the Church of Christ, which was a very abstinent faith. And I just didn't [drink] - there was… — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
Catholics and Protestants are fighting with one another... while the enemy of Aryan humanity and all Christendom is laughing up his sleeve. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“Roman Catholicism is a broken and utterly desperate thing, capable only of malignant mischief in our awakening world.” — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
I don't subscribe to organised religion. I've travelled enough to see that adherents of organised religion often attack adherents of other religions. — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
They tried to make me go to Catholic school, too. I lasted a very short time. When the penguin came after me… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
[My father was ] Presbyterian [minister]. But I did not take the Bible seriously until I was forced to take Hebrew at… — Hershel Shanks Copy Share Image
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Both of my parents are pastors and educators. I went to the school that my parents taught in, so people expected more… — Phaedra Parks Copy Share Image
We must pray without tiring, for the salvation of mankind does not depend upon material success . . . but on Jesus alone. — Frances Xavier Cabrini Copy Share Image
What I hope my liberal friends (and I have more than a few) take from this pontificate is that mercy and truth… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
Most readers will be shocked by the clear record of history linking Adolf Hitler and the Roman Catholic Church in a conspiracy… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
No one, however weak, is denied a share in the victory of the cross. No one is beyond the help of the… — Pope Leo I Copy Share Image
“The Catholic Church in America is the Irish church. It is our church, end of story. We built it. We paid for… — Mary Gordon Copy Share Image
People who love each other fully and truly are the happiest people in the world. They may have little, they may have… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
My father was an itinerant preacher who traveled the country's heartland preaching from town to town and church to church. — Julia Butterfly Hill Copy Share Image
Like many Catholics, I was very affected by the personality of Jesus and that impression, pious as it was, has stayed with… — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
I grew up in the north of Chile, and this is why there are a lot of religious symbols in my pictures:… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
![“He [Christ] protects their faith and gives strength to believers in proportion to the trust that each man who receives that strength is willing to place in him.” quote by Cyprian](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/ec2/cyprian-16127_believer_he-christ-protects-their-faith-and-gives_1143376.jpg)
![“It is an absurd law [Section 295A of the Indian penal code] but also extremely dangerous because it gives fanatics, whether they are Hindus, Catholics or Muslims, a licence to be offended. It also allows people who are in dispute with you to make up false accusations of blasphemy.” quote by Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/89f/richard-dawkins-115_absurd_it-is-an-absurd-law-section-295a-of-the_2936887.jpg)
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