Catholic Quotes · Page 53

My dad was a Presbyterian minister. Yes, I am one of those dreaded P.K.s - Preachers Kids. Be afraid.

— Libba Bray

Truth is, I'm a good Catholic girl. The faith has always been elusive, but the guilt is intractable.

— Janet Evanovich

My church ended up being the MTV pulpit on Wednesday nights.

— Rev. Run

My granddad was an elder at our church, so it was a big part of my life growing up.

— Ricky Stenhouse Jr

I went to Catholic school and experienced racism firsthand from nuns and priests.

— Anthea Butler

I've never seen service as separate from my spiritual practice or my spiritual teaching.

— Marianne Williamson

Im against religion. it only breeds hate and conflict, instead of love and acceptance.

— Anonymous

As an atheist and lapsed Catholic, I feel the absence of faith in my own life quite acutely.

— Ron Currie Jr

Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your…

— Fulton J. Sheen

I would not call myself Catholic anymore, but I went to 16 years of Catholic school: grade school, high school and college.

— William Mapother

Maybe some of my quest for success comes from Joan of Arc but theres no conscious part of Catholicism in my life.

— Joan Van Ark

I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his…

— Benjamin Franklin

I was an outcast growing up with a bunch of Christian people. My father didn't go to church, and that was not…

— Del Shannon

One of the first things Catholic school taught me is that babies were born sinners. You sucked before you took your first…

— Lizz Winstead

The best thing about being Catholic is that you're a part of something bigger than yourself and you're a part of the…

— Lino Rulli

“You’re Catholic." "And you’re not. No problem. We’re not going to fight about how to raise the kids. Stay on the road…

— Jez Morrow

As soon as we abandon our own reason, and are content to rely upon authority, there is no end to our trouble.…

— Bertrand Russell

Thanksgiving is a holiday that brought together two different cultures. The pilgrims came here with the best intentions. They decided to flee…

— Christopher Titus

“If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach it in the public school, tomorrow…

— Clarence Darrow

MRA is the good road of an ideology inspired by God upon which all can unite. Catholic, Jew and Protestant, Hindu, Muslim,…

— Frank Buchman

The (Catholic) church, as far as I know, has not endorsed any war as just since it supported General Franco's invasion of…

— Christopher Hitchens

“We are always hungry and never satisfied because we don’t trust and won’t risk. Can we reach a place where we are…

— Mary DeTurris Poust

Without transformation, you can assume you're at a high moral, spiritual level just because you call yourself Lutheran or Methodist or Catholic.…

— Richard Rohr

Catholic theology accounts for the fact that there's evil in the world. People say, well, how could God let this happen. Well,…

— Roger Ebert

Our Catholic schools exist to help young people attain holiness in their lives, that is, to become saints.

— Salvatore J. Cordileone

Christian obedience, by its very nature, has a heroic character.

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

My grandmother was a minister as well, which was not that common in the 1930s.

— Colin Firth

I was raised Catholic, and I can get incredibly guilty about mistakes.

— Matt Mullenweg

Catholic homes caught fire because they were loaded with petrol bombs.

— Ian Paisley

However, ironically, I was baptized Presbyterian, and went to a Quaker school for twelve years

— Brian De Palma

When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.

— St. Jerome

Wars shatter so many lives. I think especially of children robbed of their childhood.

— Pope Francis

I don't understand why the police are infallible. They remind me a lot of the Catholic Church.

— Bill Maher

I was brought up a very strict Catholic and I don't practice anymore or anything.

— Danny Boyle

To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.

— Woody Allen

I have always felt that my work is religious, not sacrilegious.

— Andres Serrano

How powerful prayer is! May we never lose the courage to say: Lord, give us your peace.

— Pope Francis

My family was very religious, my mom and my grandmother, and that got to me.

— Derrick Favors

I was born by a late chicken shack and a church. That mean the flow got wings and it come from the…

— Common

I never graduated to being an atheist. I only graduated to being an agnostic.

— Christopher Durang