And so um, I knew that I really didn't want to be a priest and didn't want to be a celibate, though… — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
I loved Catholic school. I didn't like being beeped at by old pervs at the gas station because I was wearing a… — Kristen Bell Copy Share Image
I didn't grow up in church. I had no concept of God - existence, I - the name Jesus was synonymous with… — Paula White Copy Share Image
There is no place for selfishness-and no place for fear! Do not be afraid, then, when love makes demands. Do not be… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
My grandmother went to church, but my mother had been inundated with church and decided that when she had children, she would… — Gloria Gaynor Copy Share Image
Lent stimulates us to let the Word of God penetrate our life and in this way to know the fundamental truth: who… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I joined church by myself in a borrowed suit at 13. I had my neighbor's bible. So my walk and my faith… — Niecy Nash Copy Share Image
My joke is that my father was a minister and my mother was an English teacher, so I'm trained to see the… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
To you who hear I say, love your enemies,do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you,pray for those… — Luke the Evangelist Copy Share Image
I have a great respect for the flag, (but) if the government passed a law saying that I had to pledge allegiance… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“Mr Kingsley begins then by exclaiming- 'O the chicanery, the wholesale fraud, the vile hypocrisy, the conscience-killing tyranny of Rome! We have… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
I prefer to be accused unjustly, for then I have nothing to reproach myself with, and joyfully offer this to the good… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
Tie me up, please... Chantal said. They looked above at some vines and roots hanging down from the grassy area above the… — Jess C Scott Copy Share Image
The Reformed Church was identified with the old all-white government of South Africa and its apartheid policy. The Roman Catholic Church was… — Edd Doerr Copy Share Image
And I say that Your Highnesses ought not to consent that any foreigner does business or sets foot here, except Christian Catholics,… — Christopher Columbus Copy Share Image
I grew up Catholic, so I have these defenses about listening to anything with too much religiosity; some of the lyrics didn't… — Patty Griffin Copy Share Image
I didn't need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity; I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I grew up in southwestern Ontario in the heart of a Mennonite community. All my family are part of the Mennonite church. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I was raised a Catholic and when you're raised a Catholic they don't teach you to think for yourself. You're taught not… — Abel Ferrara Copy Share Image
I'm very happy and being raised Catholic I assume it will end tomorrow. The rug will be pulled out from under me… — Joel McHale Copy Share Image
A man of strength and wisdom, John Paul became an inspiration to generations of both Catholics and non-Catholics throughout the world by… — Greg Walden Copy Share Image
“I've never seen a naked torso that wasn't on a cross, at least not so close up. I don't know where to… — J.C. Lillis Copy Share Image
“If I were not an atheist, I think I would have to be a Catholic because if it wasn’t the forces of… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
When one remembers how the Catholic Church has been governed, and by whom, one realizes that it must have been divinely inspired… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
If we get you in the early years of your life and we fill your head with all of the Catholic stories,… — Andrew Greeley Copy Share Image
Jesus has made Himself the Bread of Life to give us life. Night and day, He is there. If you really want… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
He's a Catholic, a Hindy, an atheist, a Chein, a Buddhist, a Baptist and a Jew, and he knows, he shouldn't kill. — Buffy Sainte-Marie Copy Share Image
My first memories of religion were being taken to Episcopal church. My father was Catholic, but my mother, I believe, was Episcopal.… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
The Church's basic moral principle regarding reproductive technologies is this: if a given technology assists the marital embrace in achieving its natural… — Christopher West Copy Share Image
The Catholic church is the biggest financial power, wealth accumulator and property owner in existence. She is a greater possessor of material… — Avro Manhattan Copy Share Image
“The nearer Christ comes to a heart, the more it becomes conscious of its guilt; it will then either ask for his… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Nothing is more practical than finding God, that is, than falling in love in a quite absolute, final way…What you are in… — Pedro Arrupe Copy Share Image
“It is most certainly not the function of the Holy See to introduce Church reforms. The first duty of the Pope is… — Christopher A. Ferrara Copy Share Image
The Roman Catholic Church early on simply adapted the hierarchical structure of the Roman Empire and confused the whole thing. Vertical attention… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
Both of my parents were raised in Christian homes, which was great. They instilled in us that God came first and they… — Mike Fisher Copy Share Image
In Italy, the Inquisition was condemning people to death until the end of the eighteenth century, and inquisitional torture was not abolished… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
My grandmother and mother were from Italy, so I was raised Catholic. That kind of just meant going to church on Easter… — Sonny Sandoval Copy Share Image
Think of the Father as a spring of life begetting the Son like a river and the Holy Ghost like a sea,… — John of Damascus Copy Share Image
I think I was about seven years old, and I remember I was at Moffat Road Baptist Church, where I grew up… — Jake Peavy Copy Share Image
People who are atheists, they hate God, they hate the expression of God, and they are angry with the world, angry with… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
