I would say that, intellectually, Catholicism had no more impact on me than did social theory. — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
It [Catholicism] supplies a multitude of external forms in which the spiritual may be clothed and manifested. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
In truth the Church is too unique to prove herself unique. For most popular and easy proof is by parallel; and here… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
We suffer with those who have disappeared, those who have had to flee their homes, and those who have been tortured. — Oscar Romero Copy Share Image
“The worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself out from His mercy. That is what it would… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I just became fascinated with how complex and unlikely the universe is and life is and Catholicism gives me an answer to… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I think I would like to be a monk. I really considered Catholicism a few years ago, but there were some things… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
Not the goods of the world, but God. Not riches, but God. Not honors, but God. Not distinction, but God. Not dignities,… — St Vincent Pallotti Copy Share Image
That is one of the flagrant misconceptions about Catholicism in America that if a man is a Catholic he owes allegiance to… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
And I have found that when we Catholics, in the spirit of love and charity, declare our faith boldly and with conviction,… — Benedict Groeschel Copy Share Image
It behooves us unanimously and inviolably to observe the ecclesiastical traditions, whether codified or simply retained by the customary practice of the… — Peter Canisius Copy Share Image
“If we who self-designate ourselves with terms like "Catholic," "Orthodox," "Protestant," "Evangelical," "Charismatic," "Pentecostal" and others would fully surrender ourselves to The… — John David Geib Copy Share Image
When people have no interest in a subject, it's very hard to get them to laugh about it. If I had to… — George Meyer Copy Share Image
But if out of smugness, or even cowardice, this battle is not fought to its end, then take a look at the… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
My first memories of religion were being taken to Episcopal church. My father was Catholic, but my mother, I believe, was Episcopal.… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
The central problem of our age is not liberalism or modernism, nor the old Roman Catholicism or the new Roman Catholicism, nor… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I could not understand why these romancers never took the trouble to find out a few elementary facts about the thing they… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Curiously enough, it is a fear of how grace will change and improve them that keeps many souls away from God. They… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“I think that it [the Church] stands for everything most hostile to the mental emancipation and stimulation of mankind. It is the… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“An ultimately evil job. For we are attempting to conquer Sauron with the Ring. And we shall (it seems) succeed. But the… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“It is not brains or intelligence that is needed to cope with the problems with Plato and Aristotle and all of their… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
But look at the men who have those perverted notions about the grace of Jesus Christ which has come down to us,… — Ignatius of Antioch Copy Share Image
Eagleton has spent his life inside two mental boxes, Catholicism and Marxism, of both of which he is a severe internal critic—that… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
I'm an old Catholic. I don't believe in anything Catholic but I do believe that Catholicism keeps me from committing suicide. — Tom Spanbauer Copy Share Image
Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment. — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
The only reason that Jews are in pornography is that we think that Christ sucks. Catholicism sucks. — Al Goldstein Copy Share Image
The saints had no hatred, no bitterness; they forgive everything and think they deserve much more for their offenses against God. — John Vianney Copy Share Image
“Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.” — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The personification of the devil as the symbol of all evil assumes the living shape of the Jew. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“Wherever men are still theological there is still some chance of their being logical.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It is neither just nor human so to grind men down with excessive labour as to stupefy their minds and wear out… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
The forgiveness of God is one thing, but the proof that we want that forgiveness is the energy we expend to make… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“The Catholic Church made a serious mistake when they started caring about how many people are in the pews.” — Michel Templet Copy Share Image
I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother. — Martin Sheen Copy Share Image
Judge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Wherever the bishop shall appear, there let the multitude also be; even as, wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church. — Ignatius of Antioch Copy Share Image
I converted to Catholicism at age 35, after being raised as a Congregationalist in a New England Yankee family. — Wendy Long Copy Share Image
“Bells and incense!” scoffs the Puritan, but God gave people ears and noses. Are those organs of perception too humble to bring… — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
I think I would like to be a monk. I really considered Catholicism a few years ago, but there were some things… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
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