Catholic Quotes · Page 35

I would love to be a Franciscan brother. I'm just not sure I have the courage to do it.

— Rich Mullins

I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.

— Charles Darwin

My mother was a churchgoing lady, so I always heard about God at home

— Smokey Robinson

Mama wanted me to be a preacher. I told her coachin' and preachin' were a lot alike.

— Bear Bryant

My mother was very agnostic. She would never set foot in the synagogue, she couldn't be doing with it.

— Janet Suzman

My mom's a Christian and she loves me; that whole side of my family is Christian and I have no problem with…

— Jake Shears

The people who are behind the curve of the Catholic future are the institutional-maintenance types.

— George Weigel

I'm a Baha'i. I'm not a Muslim. I'm Baha'i. And the Baha'i faith is such a sweet faith.

— Omid Djalili

Catholic media sucks. It's boring. It's for old people. It's not interesting. It's like you're in a class with an 80 year…

— Lino Rulli

I consider myself a religious person, but when it comes to God and faith, I don't know. I guess that means I'm…

— Del Shores

I'm not particularly into the formal, political side of faith, although I am spiritual and I do have a faith. But 'Strictly…

— Miranda Hart

I suffer from Irish-Catholic guilt. Guilt is a good reality check. It keeps that ‘do what makes you happy’ thing in check.

— Edward Burns

God empowered him; and my father, when he stood to preach, he wasn't preaching his message, he was preaching God's message.

— Franklin Graham

“Although my parents never attended church or mentioned Jesus except when they screamed at each other—and then they used his full name,…

— Augusten Burroughs

I was born in a temple to a priest father, in a place like Benaras. So, my upbringing has been influenced by…

— Ravi Kishan

I am what you call a non-believer. I don't even want to say I'm an atheist because frankly I don't want to…

— Kathy Griffin

Current Catholic worship often ignores the essential connection between truth and beauty, body and soul, at the center of the Catholic worldview.…

— Dana Gioia

The greatest act of faith is that which rises to your lips in total darkness together with the sacrifices, sufferings and wholehearted…

— Pio of Pietrelcina

It's something that exists on a daily basis on practically every street in India. You have people who are Hindus, Muslims, Christians…

— Anita Rau Badami

“At the heart of Galatians 2 is not an abstract individualized salvation, but a common meal. Paul does not want the Galatians…

— N.T. Wright

Let anyone who comes to you go away feeling better and happier. Everyone should see goodness in your face, in your eyes,…

— Mother Teresa

Looking back through the mists of time, I recall some distinctly religious experiences in my teens--when I was only fourteen years old…

— Andrew Linzey

The observance of Lent is the very badge of Christian warfare. By it we prove ourselves not to be enemies of Christ.…

— Pope Benedict XIV

When I was 13, I entered the seminary in the hope of becoming a priest. But I often found myself helping the…

— Joel Robuchon

If you're a Catholic you believe what the Church teaches and the climate makes no difference.

— Flannery O'Connor

I have nothing against religion but I'm not religious so dont pitch that shit in my direction.

— Anonymous

When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth.

— Tori Amos

My degree in theology was an important part of my formation.

— Jeff Fortenberry

I never had a spirit-breaking, soul-destroying religion drummed into me.

— Michael Leunig

There are a lot of things about religion, especially Catholic religion, that bug me.

— Max Cavalera

I sometimes joke that I'm half Jewish, because I was raised Catholic... and we share 'the guilt.'

— John Densmore

“If there are damned souls in Hell, it is because men blind themselves.”

— Anonymous

I was always religious. I was baptized as a Catholic. I got my daughter baptized as a Catholic.

— Leah Remini

I do not believe in religions in the modern sense. It is an excrescence and a handicap on progress.

— KM II

I do not call it religion so long as it is confined to books and dogmas.

— Swami Vivekananda

I don't have a religion because I don't like that word religion.

— Madonna Ciccone

While I was in college becoming a good Catholic I was also becoming a writer - one haunted by Catholicism.

— Julianna Baggott

Each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ.

— Pope John Paul II

My granddad and great granddad were Baptist preachers from Western Kentucky.

— Andy Beshear

I was raised Catholic in the Midwest, so I can't enjoy anything.

— Kyle Kinane