Catholic Quotes · Page 17

I once dieted so religiously I quit eating in church.

— Zig Ziglar

Oh, I don't have any religious beliefs.

— Christopher Plummer

I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest.

— Martin Scorsese

I take the teachings of the Catholic Church seriously.

— Jacob Rees-Mogg

I grew up with a religious background.

— Alex Caruso

“Smugness is the Great Catholic Sin.”

— Flannery O'Connor

I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.

— Anonymous

I was born in church. I was raised in church.

— Stephon Marbury

I'm very old-fashioned. I believe that people should stay married for life, like pigeons and Catholics.

— Woody Allen

If I speak of Islamic violence, I must speak of Catholic violence.

— Pope Francis

Many trees have died so that the Catholic Church can preach against homosexuality.

— Jodi Picoult

It's not so much that I'm an atheist so much as the sneaking suspicion that I myself may be god

— Thom Yorke

I would like to call myself a spiritualist more than an actor.

— Rajinikanth

I'm obviously not an advocate of Christian America or a simplistic view of America as 'a city on a hill.'

— Os Guinness

I grew up Mormon. I wasn't really Mormon, my parents were.

— Ryan Gosling

To become a lapsed Catholic, first go to a Catholic university.

— Susan Sarandon

I stopped going to mass, and boy, it was painful for me, and it was certainly painful for my family, but I…

— Anna Quindlen

That's the reality in the Catholic Church today You don't want to build something that will be OK for now, when you…

— Mary Gauthier

I was raised Catholic and I have a lot of respect for the good in the Catholic Church. But I don't go…

— Dolores O'Riordan

My mother was Catholic, my father was Protestant. There was always a debate going on at home - I think in those…

— David Bowie

Sometimes I feel like a Buddhist and I need to chant; sometimes a Baptist and I need to holler and shout; and…

— Jill Scott

I was baptized alongside my mother when I was 8 years old. Since then, I have tried to walk a Christian life.…

— Andy Griffith

O Lord, if I could fly to my people and tell them of your goodness at the top of my voice, oh…

— Josephine Bakhita

I grew up in the East End of London, the youngest of three boys in a Catholic household. Both my parents were…

— James Herbert

In some ways Jews and the various largely Catholic and often poor European immigrant groups were "white," as the historian Tom Guglielmo…

— David Roediger

“I've heard constant testimonials about rosary prayers transforming lives shattered by despair, healing bodies ravaged by sickness, curing addiction, and reviving hearts…

— Immaculée Ilibagiza

The Catholic community must offer support to those women who may find it difficult to accept a child, above all when they…

— Pope Benedict XVI

“How shall a man judge what to do in such times?' 'As he has ever judged,' said Aragorn. 'Good and ill have…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

You always leave the Rosary for later, and you end up not saying it at all because you are sleepy. If there…

— Josemaria Escriva

Let no Christian therefore, whether philosopher or theologian, embrace eagerly and lightly whatever novelty happens to be thought up from day to…

— Pope Pius XII

We cannot avoid the globalization of knowledge and information. When I was a boy growing up in Kansas, I could never think…

— Richard Rohr

My grandfather was Catholic; my grandmother, Jewish. Crossing over from Bavaria, as immigrants to the United States, the ship started to sink.…

— Emanuel Celler

I'm not religious, but wrong or right, that's me.

— Eazy-E

“Bold courage is paralyzing fear after humble prayer.”

— Kenneth E. Nowell

I am Catholic. I also practise Judaism a bit.

— Javier Milei

I don't bring religion into the square.

— Tony Abbott

There was no known cure for a Catholic education.

— Lisa Scottoline

I was brought up a Catholic and was an altar boy.

— Chris Ofili

I'm spiritual but I don't practice any sort of thing.

— Taylor Momsen

You cannot be in love with love.

— Peter Kreeft