I was brought up Catholic and know the stench of the Catholic Church. I moved away from religion early, but the impression… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
I was the adoring son of a Welsh-Irish father, a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat, a Catholic Knight of Columbus who was a blue-collar, trade… — Bob Gunton Copy Share Image
Apparently God takes reception of Holy Communion seriously. Apparently some things are more sacred than politics. Apparently it's all or nothing when… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My parents were Christians - Catholics, but not in the close-minded sense. I remember my mother to be a very pious woman,… — Helmut Kohl Copy Share Image
Once I started first grade, I started going to Emmanuel Baptist Church regularly. I went to Sunday school. We had Bible readings… — Wesley Clark Copy Share Image
My whole family is spiritual. My grandmother, grand aunt, cousins, they're all preachers and pastors. Spirituality is a part of my family,… — Ziggy Marley Copy Share Image
The devil strains every nerve to secure the souls which belong to Christ. We should not grudge our toil in wresting them… — Saint Sebastian Copy Share Image
It always helps to have a bit of prayer in your back pocket. At the end of the day, you have to… — Pierce Brosnan Copy Share Image
We have gone a long way toward civilization and religious tolerance, and we have a good example in this country. Here the… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
I could never call myself an atheist; my parents could, quite happily. I always felt like there was a little bit more… — Alex Clare Copy Share Image
Even in my hometown of Linkoping where I grew up... the church we had was very lavish - very boasty. So it… — Tobias Forge Copy Share Image
According to an article on CNN.com, a new study says people who are bad kissers don't get laid. Where are you supposed… — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
I'm always disappointed when I see the word 'Puritan' tossed around as shorthand for a bunch of generic, boring, stupid, judgmental killjoys.… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
Those who advocate euthanasia have capitalized on people's confusion, ambivalence and even fear about the use of modern life-prolonging technologies. Being able… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Although every organized religion works overtime to contribute its own brand of misogyny to the myth of woman-hate, woman-fear, and woman-evil, the… — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
I do think the Roman Catholic religion is a disease of the mind which has a particular epidemiology similar to that of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I’m a total atheist, and for me it’s just about trying to find something that rises above the banal day-to-day bullshit of… — Myla Goldberg Copy Share Image
Wicked sons do not have the Holy Ghost in the same way as do beloved sons, and yet they do have Baptism.… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I am surprised that I cannot recall whether my desire to become a minister transformed itself into a wish to lead the… — Pierre Loti Copy Share Image
The first thing that a person finds in life and the last to which he holds out his hand, and the most… — Adolph Kolping Copy Share Image
I went to a Catholic school. The private school was good - the teachers wanted all of us to have the freedom… — Laura Dern Copy Share Image
Earthly riches are like the reed. Its roots are sunk in the swamp, and its exterior is fair to behold; but inside… — Anthony of Padua Copy Share Image
The Catholic tradition maintains that the objective norms governing right action are accessible to reason, prescinding from the content of revelation. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
But for the first time, I had a religious identity. I had come home. And so I called myself a Zen Buddhist… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
“A lost person or article is still what it is, still valuable in itself, but in the wrong place, disconnected from its… — David Winter Copy Share Image
A lot of Mexican Catholic dogma, the way it's taught, it's about existing in a state of grace, which I found impossible… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
Do everything as if He were dwelling in us. Thus we shall be His temples and He will be within us as… — Ignatius of Antioch Copy Share Image
Nearly every Christian Scientist I have known has been involved with the Church from childhood and has a long family connection to… — Caroline Fraser Copy Share Image
It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I grew up in a somewhat religious family. My dad's family isn't religious at all, but my mom's side of the family… — Win Butler Copy Share Image
It's hard for the Catholic Church to accept change. When the mass was no longer said in Latin, loyalists went into mourning… — Janine di Giovanni Copy Share Image
I was baptized a Baptist, but I'm just Christian, as far as I'm concerned. I could go in any church, doesn't matter… — Queen Latifah Copy Share Image
“I’m not a religious or spiritual man. I am guided solely by my instincts, my gut. And they have led me to… — Jessica Hawkins Copy Share Image
I grew up in the Midwest and had a lot of exposure to big religion. I went to church every Sunday -… — Michael McMillian Copy Share Image
Catholicism is a wide tent in terms of political and legal positions. We could have nine Catholics on the Supreme Court and… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
The idea of being a practicing Catholic, it's - for me, it's like - I need a lot of practice, you know… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
It's amazing how much detail Catholics will go into documenting why people shouldn't do the things that they all do anyway. — PZ Myers Copy Share Image
I no longer represent any organized religion. I'm not Catholic. I'm not Christian. I'm saying this because I have to be an… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I didn't grow up in the Catholic church, but I went to a Catholic high school and a Catholic college, and the… — Chris Sullivan Copy Share Image
The real ecumenical crisis today is not between Catholics and Protestants but between traditional and experimental forms of church life. — Harvey Cox Copy Share Image
