Let everyone who has the grace of intelligence fear that, because of it, he will be judged more heavily if he is… — Bridget of Sweden Copy Share Image
I was a Catholic boy, I went to church every Sunday. A church has a certain magic and mystery for a child.… — Robert Mapplethorpe Copy Share Image
The Roman Catholic Church, had it captured me, as it nearly did, would have sent me on some mission of danger and… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
I was the biggest George Harrison fanatic in the world. He was raised Catholic; my parents are both ex-clergy, so I was… — John Fugelsang Copy Share Image
...The hagaddah came to Sarajevo for a reason. It was here to test us, to see if there were people who could… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
The Roman Catholic Church early on simply adapted the hierarchical structure of the Roman Empire and confused the whole thing. Vertical attention… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
“A lost person or article is still what it is, still valuable in itself, but in the wrong place, disconnected from its… — David Winter Copy Share Image
Take care to guard against all greed, for though one may be rich, one's life does not consist of possessions. — Luke the Evangelist Copy Share Image
There is a theory going around that the U.S.A. was and still is a gigantic Masonic plot under the ultimate control of… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
I grew up in a small, strictly Catholic fishing village - the people there have a different attitude to life than those… — Catherine Zeta-Jones Copy Share Image
Badness cannot succeed even in being bad in the same way in which goodness is good. Goodness is, so to speak, itself:… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
As for certain lesser faults, we must believe that, before the Final Judgment, there is a purifying fire. He who is truth… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
I'm Catholic, and my wife is Catholic. We're very religious. We go to church. We pray every night. We pray at dinner.… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I was educated by monks - I thank them dearly for the education they gave me, but I am no longer a… — Antony Gormley Copy Share Image
“Catholici sunt fideles unius veri Dei sectatores. Non habemus locum in mundo superborum peccatorum. In exilium acti, in oratione miraculi expectantes, cito… — Robert Chad Canter Copy Share Image
Being a pop fan is a lot like Catholic devotion - lots of ritual, lots of ceremony... We touch the icon to… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
Love to be real, it must cost—it must hurt—it must empty us of self. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Love endures everything, love is stronger than death, love fears nothing. — Mary Faustina Kowalska Copy Share Image
“The news today about "Atomic bombs" is so horrifying one is stunned. The utter folly of these lunatic physicists to consent to… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Quite apart from the Church's financial self-interest in getting me out of the way, Baltimore is an overwhelmingly Catholic city and like… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
The attitude of the Catholic Church towards homosexuality is well known - it is treated as something unnatural, even as a disease. — Malgorzata Szumowska Copy Share Image
Indeed, Mr. Jefferson, what could be invented to debase the ancient Christianism, which Greeks, Romans, Hebrews and Christian factions, above all the… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Religious liberty in a nation is as real as the liberty of its least popular religious minority. Look not to the size… — Paul Blanshard Copy Share Image