One of the reasons there are largely Catholic and largely Protestant regions of Germany today is that people did sort themselves out… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
That's enough, and I have a ministry as a neighbor as well. A ministry as a friend and a ministry as an… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
I am an atheist. I was born a Catholic, but after I had traveled to Northern Ireland with some Catholic friends, and… — Guy Laliberte Copy Share Image
I was in church a little bit as a very young kid, but, as they say in the South, 'it didnt take.'… — Randy Travis Copy Share Image
When I was a kid I went to Catholic school, and they used to drag us out to pro-life rallies and stuff… — Tim Heidecker Copy Share Image
I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I was an altar boy, I took catechism classes and religion classes, and I prayed a lot as a child. My family… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Between Pope Francis tour of the U.S. which I think was a triumph really for liberals, he really sort of for the… — Joy-Ann Reid Copy Share Image
It was manifest to me that there was something in the Roman Catholic religion which made the priests very dear to the… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
I was brought up Catholic. My mom brought us to mass every Sunday - short for 'massive head trauma' that you get… — Richard Jeni Copy Share Image
Comics, which are really best described as an arrangement of images in a sequence that tell a story - an idea -… — Will Eisner Copy Share Image
Forget what you might have heard. There are no separate corps of angels for agnostics, atheists, Catholics, Protestants, Jews, Muslims, Mormons, Buddhists,… — Cynthia Leitich Smith Copy Share Image
It's a beautiful religion and I wish I understood it more. No, I don't want to understand it all. It's beautiful because… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
We are here a nation, composed of the most heterogeneous elements-Protestants and Catholics, English, French, German, Irish, Scotch, every one, let it… — Wilfrid Laurier Copy Share Image
I need to learn not to bend over backwards to be nice to faith-heads. Give these people an inch and they take… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I grew up having great awareness of who I was in regards to racial identity and socio-economic status. This caused me great… — Sho Baraka Copy Share Image
The Catholic Church sees voluntary vampirism as a kind of suicide. I tend to agree. Though the Pope also excommunicated all animators,… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
I'm a church boy. I got whuppin's. So I'm afraid at any moment my grandmother could just swing down from heaven with… — Anthony Hamilton Copy Share Image
The death of Pope John Paul II led many of different faiths and of no faith to acknowledge their debt to the… — Suzanne Fields Copy Share Image
One footnote says that divorced and remarried faithful, who are not recognized by the Catholic Church because it upholds the indissolubility of… — Sylvia Poggioli Copy Share Image
I was never close to Jerry Falwell because he had his ministry, I had mine. And we came from different theological training… — Robert H. Schuller Copy Share Image
Growing up, my religious identity was primarily one of confusion. Nothing was pushed on me; nothing was overtly offered. — Andy Dunn Copy Share Image
I was raised Catholic, and I remember in all the pamphlets and pictures we'd look at, Jesus was basically blonde with blue… — Joel Edgerton Copy Share Image
Once the Roman Catholic Church in the West became the church most closely connected with the state, the Roman Catholic Church did… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
For years I had been disillusioned by the Church of England's compromising on everything. The Catholic Church doesn't care if something is… — Ann Widdecombe Copy Share Image
I was brought up as a Catholic, and I'm no longer a Catholic. I don't talk about my beliefs too much in… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
I was raised in the Baptist church... but I didn't really have a real committed experience with Christ until my father died. — T. D. Jakes Copy Share Image
I considered becoming a priest very seriously. I wanted to travel the world. By the time I turned 16, I realized I… — James McAvoy Copy Share Image
For me, church was about not only religion but about community. A woman in my grandmother's church helped pay for my SAT… — Jamila Woods Copy Share Image
You almost had to have grown up in the church like I did to realize how dark that is, how dark it… — Leslie Jordan Copy Share Image
The biggest thing I lost when I left religion was that sense of community and the culture. It was an unexpected kind… — Ari Shaffir Copy Share Image
It took the Church until 1832 to remove Galileo 's work from its list of books which Catholics were forbidden to read… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
See? This is why I'm not religious. I couldn't possibly keep my mouth shut long enough to get along with everyone else. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
I grew up a Catholic and I don't want to talk badly about the Catholic Church but there's a lot of routine… — Bernhard Langer Copy Share Image
Karrin, eh?" Thomas asked. I nodded. "She's real serious about order. A man dying, she can understand. A man coming back. That's… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Even if you are Catholic, if you live in New York you're Jewish. If you live in Butte, Montana, you are going… — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“1862 ...although we can judge that an act is in itself a grave offense, we must entrust judgment of persons to the… — Catholic Church Copy Share Image
Christmas celebrations are often full of sound. It would be good for us to make room for silence, to hear the voice… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
In the gay (Catholic) community, it would seem, the maxim is: love the sin and love the sinner, but hate anyone who… — Richard John Neuhaus Copy Share Image
