In theory I am an agnostic, but pending the appearance of rational evidence, I must be classed, practically and provisionally, as an… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“Prayer is the key that opens heaven; the favors we ask descend upon us the very instant our prayers ascend to God.” — St. Augustine Copy Share Image
I also grew up with community co-parents who looked out for each other. They looked out for children and tried to be… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
I am unable to distinguish clearly between your religious ceremonies and apparently identical behavior at the sporting and cultural functions you have… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
I believe my religion is the truth, but I am not the truth and the truth doesn't belong to me I'm trying… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
I'm indebted to the teachers who shaped me - from the Sisters of St. Joseph at St. Croix Catholic elementary to the… — Denis McDonough Copy Share Image
“The world in which we now live is a world whose outlook is so distorted that we absolutize what is relative (money-making,… — Alice von Hildebrand Copy Share Image
The changes in the Catholic Church since Vatican II can certainly be scanned in terms of this long retreat from the sacred… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
“I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute; where no Catholic prelate would tell the President… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
In my view, the Catholic Church as a community of faith will be preserved, but only if it abandons the Roman system… — Hans Kung Copy Share Image
“The modern world, which denies personal guilt and admits only social crimes, which has no place for personal repentance but only public… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“You cannot always depend on prayers to be answered the way you want them answered but you can always depend on God.… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
I had a very marginal understanding of what faith in God was growing up because, although I went to a Catholic school,… — Patricia Mauceri Copy Share Image
I still went to church regularly every Sunday; that is we all went there together. I reverenced the family pew where we… — Pierre Loti Copy Share Image
I said the rosary, and I said the Our Father, as they call it in the Catholic Church. One of the things… — Wesley Clark Copy Share Image
“Up until I was thirty years old I was your standard issue Christian- the kind christian schools and churches in our town… — Clare De Graaf Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a highly spiritual person, but without - I was never really given a religion or a religious… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
When the problems in Northern Ireland started, it was not a question of Protestantism or Catholicism, because the Catholic church was the… — Harri Holkeri Copy Share Image
I will not live an instant that I do not live in love. Whoever loves does all things without suffering, or, suffering,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Oh, my mama was awesome. Very strict, overreligious, loved the Lord, loved rules. But she had to be that way because of… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
We live in a culture in which condoms can be handed out in schools and Bibles can't. And I think that tells… — Janet E. Smith Copy Share Image
“To be the altar boy at the first Mass of the day was a sacred initiation rite. It was like being hazed… — Ian Morgan Cron Copy Share Image
As soon as you willfully allow a dialogue with temptation to begin, the soul is robbed of peace, just as consent to… — Josemaria Escriva Copy Share Image
The best things that have been written, almost, are by Catholics during the counter Reformation: Ignatius of Loyola, St. Francis de Sales,… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
I always wanted to solo at the church and they didn't ever give it to me. But eventually they did and I… — Ari Lennox Copy Share Image
In the emerging culture, darkness represents spirituality. We see this in Buddhist temples, as well as Catholic and orthodox churches. Darkness indicates… — Dan Kimball Copy Share Image
I grew up in the church. My mother was highly religious. I was singing at the age of five for big congregations. — Carmen Cusack Copy Share Image
Oh, the Protestants hate the Catholics/ And the Catholics hate the Protestants/ And the Hindus hate the Muslims/ And everybody hates the… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
Yet for all that, there is nothing in me of a founder of a religion--religions are affairs of the rabble; I find… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
My parents and I - I'm an only child - are not particularly religious, but I was christened and raised in that… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
“She was brought up in the reformed Protestant Church but left it at the age of seventeen in protest against its restrictive… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
As the son of a Protestant Christian mother and a Shia Muslim father, I have nevertheless ended up without a religious bone… — Jim Al-Khalili Copy Share Image
I have nothing against religion. It's just that I can't stand it when I burst into flames whenever I tread on holy… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We must go out to Pure Life, Pure Truth, Pure Love, and that is the definition of God. He is the ultimate… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school. — Lionel Blue Copy Share Image
As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor's soul must break all precept. All that… — Edith Stein Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century, many Anglican theologians, both evangelical and catholic, embraced positively the proposal of evolution. — Arthur Peacocke Copy Share Image
The only reason the Protestants and Catholics have given up the idea of universal domination is because they've realised they can't get… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
I was raised a Southern Baptist, and my whole family were Christians. However, my Dad was really into science and astronomy, so… — Craig Brewer Copy Share Image
The Catholic writer, in so far as he has the mind of the Church, will feel life from the standpoint of the… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
