My religious faith remains in possession of the field only after prolonged civil war with my naturally skeptical mind. — William Lyon Phelps Copy Share Image
I think I'm known as a liberal democrat and Hispanic and a practicing Catholic, but I never really went out of my… — Martin Sheen Copy Share Image
What makes a comedian has nothing to do with religion. Think of Red Skelton, Jimmy Durante, Jackie Gleason, who were all Catholics. — Buddy Hackett Copy Share Image
Love of Christ does not distract us from interest in others, but rather invites us to responsibility for them, to the exclusion… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
One nice thing about growing up Catholic is it makes you open-minded about other people's religions, since ours is nuttier than yours. — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
It was a very stupid mistake to think you could deal with heresy by burning heretics. It's the very same mistake that… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
In this Year of Faith, we pray to the Lord that the Church may always be a true family that brings God’s… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Yes, I was a parish priest for five years. I was a curate in a large working class parish in Bristol and… — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image
My father was Catholic, and my mother wanted me to go to Catholic school. That's what I did in first grade. But… — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
It goes without saying that a good Catholic novel should be good craftsmanship, good writing skills. The creative person must always be… — Michael O'Brien Copy Share Image
When I was in high school at Northeast Catholic in Philadelphia in the late '30s, I found that drawing caricatures of the… — Bil Keane Copy Share Image
I was raised Catholic and went to Catholic school until junior high. I don't believe in transmigration or anything like that. I… — Alice Glass Copy Share Image
But there was a time when each of us stood naked before the world, confronting life as a serious problem with which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“God has created me to do Him some definite service. He has committed some work to me which He has not committed… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
But because I am a Catholic, and no Catholic has ever been elected president, the real issues in this campaign have been… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
And so, lastly, does the very name of "Catholic", which, not without reason, amid so many heresies, the Church has thus retained;… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
When I was quite a boy I had a spasm of religion which lasted six weeks... But I never since have swallowed… — George Meredith Copy Share Image
A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Both Mum and Dad were converts to Catholicism, and normally if you convert to Catholicism you have thought about it more than… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
I think there's nothing better in the world than a spirited discussion about the Bible and Jesus and God and the Catholic… — Elizabeth Vargas Copy Share Image
The distinctive mark of the Christian, today more than ever, must be love for the poor, the weak, the suffering. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the new way of evangelizing is not so much through confrontation and argument, but through conversation, dialogue, and affirmation” — Charles M. Murphy Copy Share Image
So I was very close to ordination. I was delighted to be ordained a deacon, which is the last step between, before… — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
I'm not a preacher, but I preach. I'm not a Buddhist, but I chant. I'm not race theorist, but I have questions… — Theaster Gates Copy Share Image
I grew up, as reported, in a large family of Catholics without even a decent ration of tentativeness among the lot of… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
So nonetheless given the importance that was placed on sport in Australia, I wanted to be part of that scene, particularly since… — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
And finally, be assured that Zen asks nothing even as it promises nothing. One can be a Protestant Zen Buddhist, a Catholic… — Howard Fast Copy Share Image
“When a person eats shortly before going to bed, digestion accompanies sleep. The two great physiological functions are completed together, leaving the… — Adalbert De Vogue Copy Share Image
In my house, it's family first - but I was spending most of my time at the church. So, I was saying… — Leah Remini Copy Share Image
I don't believe in ghosts or ESP or elves... or God. But I am spiritual in the sense that I get a… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
Without the burden of afflictions it is impossible to reach the height of Grace. The gift of Grace increases as the struggle… — Rose of Lima Copy Share Image
If you are Catholic, and some other person comes to you seeking guidance, naturally you take him straight away to someone who… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
I grew up in a household that spent most of my childhood on a religious pilgrimage through American Christianity. — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
Before everything else, fidelity to the Church: One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic. Jesus did not found several churches, but one single Church. — Pope John XXIII Copy Share Image
Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all. And faith means believing the incredible, or it… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine, There’s always laughter and good red wine. At least I’ve always found it so. Benedicamus Domino! — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
I was a fervent Catholic, and I belonged to the national organizations, even becoming one of the national leaders, until the age… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I think the word is counter-productive. Capitalism is counter-productive to art, just as the Catholic Church was counter-productive to art four hundred… — Mick Farren Copy Share Image
They're after one world religion and one world government. That's why they've attacked the Catholic Church so strongly, to ultimately take control… — Hutton Gibson Copy Share Image
He [Christ] protects their faith and gives strength to believers in proportion to the trust that each man who receives that strength… — Cyprian Copy Share Image
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