Catholic Quotes · Page 34

I think because I was brought up in a Christian home, I was kind of careful not to swear in my lyrics.

— Avril Lavigne

If I had to label myself now, I'd call myself a Taoist-Christian-agnostic quantum mechanic.

— Moby

I'm not into this judgmental, religious-right kind of thing.

— Neil Young

“just show a little humility. If you know your weaknesses you will not be enslaved by them.”

— Fiorella de Maria

Any appellative at all savouring of arbitrary rank is unsuitable to a man of liberal and catholic mind.

— Herman Melville

It is precisely our job as Catholics to speak the truth as plainly and precisely as we can.

— Sargent Shriver

“well-meaning Christians almost killed the faith eight hundred years ago”

— Jon M. Sweeney

My family is Catholic. I went to a Catholic school, that kind of thing, so that was my childhood for sure.

— Conor Oberst

My parents... has always wanted all their kids to go to at least one year of Bible college after high school. I…

— David A. R. White

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

My mother raised me in the church. I was not allowed to stay home on Sunday; there was no option. I sang…

— Steve Harvey

There's Catholic guilt about things, then there's the guilt of being the youngest of 10, so when nice things happen to you,…

— Jack White

Dr. Manton taught my youth to yawn, and prepared me to be a High-Churchman, that I might never hear him read nor…

— Henry Bolingbroke

When I was 18, I suddenly became very, very religious. I became an evangelical Christian; I was celibate for five years.

— Michaela Coel

God doesn't ask that we succeed in everything, but that we are faithful. However beautiful our work may be, let us not…

— Mother Teresa

It really wasn't until I was 15 or 16 years old that I realized that the church was always there; it was…

— Mike Rowe

“1951. Law is a rule of conduct enacted by competent authority for the sake of the common good. The moral law presupposes…

— The Catholic Church

When you wonder about the mystery of yourself, look to Christ, who gives you the meaning of life. When you wonder what…

— Pope John Paul II

Aesthetics is not an end in itself. But in our culture, which is becoming more multi-sensory and less respectful of God, we…

— Dan Kimball

People - Catholics and non-Catholics - are amazingly open to begin again in their walk with Jesus and in the Church when…

— Jonathan Morris

“Homosexuals have gifts and qualities to offer to the Christian community: Are we capable of welcoming these people, guaranteeing to them a…

— Extraordinary Synod for the Family

“But the truth is that there is no more conscious inconsistency between the humility of a Christian and the rapacity of a…

— G.K. Chesterton

[Speaking of marriage and family] In this entire world there is not a more perfect, more complete image of God, Unity and…

— Pope John Paul II

The character I play has all these revolutionary ideas. I think the classic thing is that majority people who are criticising it…

— Daniel Craig

The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Humility is not an exaggeratedly low opinion of yourself. Humility is self-forgetfulness.

— Peter Kreeft

The Roman Catholic Church isn't going to change its theologies.

— Robert H. Schuller

I was brought up Catholic. Then I had a joint and looked at the world differently.

— Liam Gallagher

Our teaching may contain nothing impious, nothing diluted.

— Gregory of Nazianzus

When lies have been accepted for some time, the truth always astounds with an air of novelty.

— Clement of Alexandria

I went to Boston College. It's a Catholic college, yeah I had a nickname there: Jew.

— Gary Gulman

In my case I've never not been political, though religion tended to overshadow it in my acid days.

— John Lennon

All the evils of the world are due to lukewarm Catholics.

— Pope Pius V

I was suppose to be a Jesuit priest or a naval academy graduate.

— Jimmy Buffett

Do to others whatever you would have them do to you . -Matthew 7:12

— Bible

“But I make it in time for the Gospel, which in Catholic lore means that it still "counts".”

— Kerry Weber

Why are you terrified? Do you not yet have faith? -Mark 4 :40

— Bible

To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

— Albert Einstein

Anyway, I try to be a good guy. I try to tell the truth, but I'm not religious.

— William H. Macy