Catholic Quotes · Page 32

I can only become perfectly free by serving the will of God.

— Thomas Merton

The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

My grandma has got me into my religion because she used to carry me to church every Sunday.

— Darren Bent

I became a Christian when I was a little six-year-old boy.

— Larry Gatlin

I'm really happy that I was raised Catholic because it's given me years of material.

— Kate Clinton

“My sister having so much to do, was going to church vicariously, that is to say, Joe and I were going.”

— Charles Dickens

The holy Rosary is a powerful weapon. Use it with confidence and you'll be amazed at the results.

— Josemaria Escriva

My husband is a fall-away Catholic, but with a vengeance. He's actually more of a feminist than I am.

— Olympia Dukakis

I grew up in a modern home, but my grandmother lived across the street in an old house that was built when…

— Laura Esquivel

I went to church as a boy, and then I quite quickly stepped away from religion. But I remained fascinated by the…

— Sebastian Lelio

In the eyes of the Catholic Church, abortion is a tragedy. Our principle objective must be to try and win greater sympathy…

— Vincent Nichols

I have nothing against priests. In fact, I tried for a time to be one... It should be clear, then, that I…

— Garry Wills

I come from a deeply Catholic family. My husband and I were married in a Catholic church; we decided to put our…

— Alexandra C. Pelosi

I grew up going to Catholic school and I was altar boy even going back to the days where the altar boys…

— Ernie Johnson Jr

Give something, however small, to the one in need. For it is not small to one who has nothing. Neither is it…

— Gregory of Nazianzus

When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great…

— Pope Pius XI

Saint Paul asks his disciple Timothy to "aim at faith" (2 Tim 2:22) with the same constancy as when he was a…

— Pope Benedict XVI

We saw one school-house in our walk, and listened to the sounds which issued from it; but it appeared like a place…

— Henry David Thoreau

A primatologist told me you can find love in the eyes of an orangutan. It's that old primate gleam that goes back…

— Shawn Thompson

It might kill you to say it, because the film really takes on the Catholic Church, but I do think there is…

— Alex Gibney

If you listen to the Catholic bishops you would think that Catholics are against contraception and legal abortion, but if you ask…

— Gloria Steinem

The fact that the Vatican is concluding a treaty with the new Germany means the acknowledgement of the National Socialist state by…

— Adolf Hitler

The Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648, was a series of conflicts that became the last great struggle of religious wars in Europe. It…

— John Daniel

I feel in me the vocation of the Priest. I have the vocation of the Apostle. Martyrdom was the dream of my…

— Therese of Lisieux

I do not believe that any particular religion has any monopoly on salvation.

— Sterling K. Brown

You cannot be half a saint; you must be a whole saint or no saint at all.

— Therese of Lisieux

I went to a Catholic girls' school before we moved to Florida when I was 15.

— Paula Pell

We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution. Each of us is the result of a thought of God.

— Pope Benedict XVI

“The university system, a gift of Western civilization to the world, was developed by the Catholic Church.”

— Thomas E. Woods Jr

My father was a Saint Bernard, my mother was a Collie, but I am a Presbyterian.

— Mark Twain

The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.

— George Orwell

I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out.

— Bertrand Russell

I don't think my religious convictions should be held against me

— Tony Abbott

When you think about the Catholic Church, it is a bit flamboyant, in't it?

— Scarlett Moffatt

I'm not exactly a religious person, but I am very spiritual.

— Madeline Brewer

The Catholic Church is like a thick steak, a glass of red wine, and a good cigar.

— Anonymous

The Gospel of life must be proclaimed and human life defended in all places and all times.

— Pope John Paul II

Im not a believer but I believe in religion , Im focusin ambition and my mind is on tha mission.

— Dopeboy

I grew up in the Holiness Church, where prayer was an event.

— Iyanla Vanzant

I've always been technically a Christian, my Dad and my Mom, they're both Christians.

— Kevin Olusola