Catholicism Quotes · Page 8

There is nothing more serious than the sacrilege of schism because there is no just cause for severing the unity of the…

— Saint Augustine

Faith is like a bright ray of sun light. It enables us to see God in all things as well as all…

— Saint Francis de Sales

Any violence which does not spring from a spiritual base, will be wavering and uncertain. It lacks the stability which can only…

— Adolf Hitler

Our Pastoral solicitude induces us to earnestly protect and preserve in everything and especially in the sacred rites of the Church the…

— Pope Clement VIII

“His faith demanded his hopefulness, and his hope underpinned his work. He worked to give others the opportunity to hope - that…

— Mark K. Shriver

The custom of the Church has very great authority and ought to be jealously observed in all things.

— Thomas Aquinas

“He clenched his small fist, bellowed his rage to the heavens, and resolved to never again recognize the authority of any man…

— Patricia Lockwood

If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and…

— Margaret Atwood

We are the ones who work every day with people who are suffering because they don't have health care. We cannot turn…

— Simone Campbell

Some have said that the clash between Catholicism and Protestantism illustrates the old maxim that religious freedom is the product of two…

— Fareed Zakaria

I don't go to church any more, but I think that Catholicism is rather like the brand they use on cattle: I…

— Rachel Cusk

The kernel is the belief that God is love and, in Catholicism, God's love is present in the world. It is in…

— Andrew Greeley

The greatness of Christianity did not lie in attempted negotiations for compromise with any similar philosophical opinions in the ancient world, but…

— Adolf Hitler

Donohue: "It is Christianity that [Manson] hates, and it is Catholicism that he hates most of all. This guy is at war…

— Marilyn Manson

“Books are the food of the soul. Good and wholesome food given to a hungry body will nourish it, but if the…

— Anthony Mary Claret

Whether, therefore, we receive what we ask for, or do not receive it, let us still continue steadfast in prayer. For to…

— Saint John Chrysostom

It would be more in keeping with the intention of the noblest man in this world if our two Christian churches, instead…

— Adolf Hitler

“It is ignoble to suggest that we go with the flow; the suggestion is repulsive to human honor alone. It is a…

— Louis Veuillot

“Mere sitting at home and meditating on the divine presence is not enough for our time. We have to come to the…

— Thomas Merton

“There is a love for structure in them that I recognize, and a desire to worship correctness that I know and I…

— Patricia Lockwood

Jesus was the poorest of the poor. Roman Catholicism, which claims to be His church, is the richest of the rich, the…

— Avro Manhattan

I will not tire of declaring that if we really want an effective end to violence we must remove the violence that…

— Oscar Romero

Ever since the Reformation, the case of legislation confining Catholics had been constructed primarily to protect a nervously Protestant against what was…

— Linda Colley

“The last lingering shadow of the Jesuit, gliding behind curtains and concealing himself in cupboards, faded from my young life about the…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Mary thus learns that the Most High has ever borne a Son in his bosom, and that this Son has now chosen…

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

Jesuits so dominated the study of earthquakes that seismology became known as 'the Jesuit Science.

— Anonymous

Catholicism has the clerical equivalent to a nut allergy - even a small exposure to change, and the whole thing will go…

— Marcus Brigstocke

I got none. I mean, I have no religion. I like the quote unquote 'Virgin Mary,' but no Catholicism.

— Melissa Leo

I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher…

— Anonymous

“...we can never attain a maximum love of God with only a minimum knowledge of God”

— Frank Sheed

“When I am completely united to you, there will be no more sorrow or trials; entirely full of you, my life will…

— The Catholic Church

We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable.

— Bernard of Clairvaux

“The chief sources of sin are seven: Pride, Covetousness, Lust, Anger, Gluttony, Envy, and Sloth; and they are commonly called capital sins.”

— Plenary Councils of Baltimore

In proportion to its power, Protestantism has been as persecuting as Catholicism.

— William Edward Hartpole Lecky

If all the bones of all the victims of the Catholic Church could be gathered together, a monument higher than all the…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Communism, being the lay form of Catholicism, and indeed meaning the same thing, has never had any lack of chaplains.

— George Bernard Shaw

Advent is the spiritual season of hope par excellence, and in this season the whole Church is called to be hope, for…

— Pope Benedict XVI

Has science ever retreated? No! It is Catholicism which has always retreated before her, and will always be forced to retreat.

— Emile Zola

I wish I was a more religious person. I really admire Martin Sheen for his Catholicism. It's such a bedrock. I wish…

— Rob Lowe

I believe the spreading of Catholicism to be the most horrible means of political and social degradation left in the world.

— Charles Dickens