Grandma's on the front porch with a Bible in her hand, sometimes I hear her singing take me to the promised land. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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The catholic church has a lot more money than any Colombian cartel and they leave a lot more bodies in their wake. — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
It is admitted by everybody that rights and privileges enjoyed by the Roman Catholic minority in Manitoba down to 1890, were taken… — Charles Tupper Copy Share Image
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BC is not going to replace the hierarchy, and BC is not going to lead some major reform in the Catholic Church… — William P. Leahy Copy Share Image
I went to a Catholic University and there's something about being a Catholic-American. You know, St. Patrick's Day is, I'm Irish-Catholic. There's… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
I was enrolled in divinity school and thought I was going to become a minister - I'm Episcopalian - but I was… — John Green Copy Share Image
In the Western Church to which I belong, priests cannot be married as in the Byzantine, Ukrainian, Russian or Greek Catholic Churches.… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I contemplate the idea that maybe I'm an alcoholic. I get this occassionally, the need to define myself as something-or-the-other, and at… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
I do not like the late resurrection of the Jesuits. . . . If ever any congregation of men could merit eternal… — John Adams Copy Share Image
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My upbringing was in the church. We had to attend regularly. And, of course, the church provided a training ground for me,… — Aretha Franklin Copy Share Image
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What's really great about Buddhism is its rational, informal quality. Coming from my experience of growing up a Catholic, I found Buddhism… — Matt Dillon Copy Share Image
You are not to be looked upon as holding the true Catholic faith if you do not teach that the faith of… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
We live in the Bible Belt. I was born and raised in church. That's something that was really, really important to me,… — Jay DeMarcus Copy Share Image
You know, in high school I thought Catholicism was funny and sort of ridiculous, but then I also liked it, too. Like,… — Julia Sweeney Copy Share Image
My friends asked me to be a reverend at their wedding in France a few years ago. I went on the Internet,… — Lucy Punch Copy Share Image
Why is it that any time we speak of temptation we always speak of temptation as something that inclines us to wrong.… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Primarily I am a passionately religious man, and my novels must be written from the depth of my religious experience. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Hey, I was raised in the church. I was an altar boy and a choir member. I almost became a priest -… — Cheech Marin Copy Share Image
My confidence is placed in God who does not need our help for accomplishing his designs. Our single endeavor should be to… — Isaac Jogues Copy Share Image
It was generally believed that Catholics were not interested in arts and science graduate schools. They weren't going to be intellectuals. And… — Andrew Greeley Copy Share Image
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As a kid spending weekends in the Ozarks, I remember my granny's preacher shaking his fist, his jowls waving in the wind… — Dana Loesch Copy Share Image
Auschwitz cries out with the pain of immense suffering and pleads for a future of respect, peace and encounter among peoples. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
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I don't think of spiritual principle as a struggle. I think of life lived without spiritual principles as a struggle. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
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Let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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You'll be pleased to hear, Christopher, that I am no longer a Muslim liberal but an atheist […] I find that it… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
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I had given up practising my Jewish religion when I was a 14-year-old girl and did not begin to feel Jewish again… — Edith Stein Copy Share Image
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