Catholic Quotes · Page 35

There are a lot of things about religion, especially Catholic religion, that bug me.

— Max Cavalera

I never had a spirit-breaking, soul-destroying religion drummed into me.

— Michael Leunig

While I was in college becoming a good Catholic I was also becoming a writer - one haunted by Catholicism.

— Julianna Baggott

I don't have a religion because I don't like that word religion.

— Madonna Ciccone

I do not believe in religions in the modern sense. It is an excrescence and a handicap on progress.

— KM II

I was always religious. I was baptized as a Catholic. I got my daughter baptized as a Catholic.

— Leah Remini

I do not call it religion so long as it is confined to books and dogmas.

— Swami Vivekananda

I'm not into this judgmental, religious-right kind of thing.

— Neil Young

I used to go to church when I was younger. My parents didn't go to church, but my friends all went to…

— Lisa Rinna

One of the things I regret is that too often in our society a person's whole identity is shaped by their sexuality,…

— Vincent Nichols

To become a saint in the Catholic Church, the normal procedure is, beatification, requiring one miracle in your name, then canonization, roughly…

— Chris Matthews

Yet for all that, there is nothing in me of a founder ofa religionreligions are affairs of the rabble; I find it…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Thomas is my Christian name and my parents are Christians. They pray every day and when you are born into a home…

— Thomas Partey

It was in that bubble after Vatican II when it seemed like the best time ever to grow up Catholic. It was…

— Rob Sheffield

A Catholic priest who’s been sending threatening notes to Conan O’Brien was charged with stalking in the fourth degree. It just goes…

— Chelsea Handler

Twenty-four years ago I went through a profound conversion of heart and God led me to the Catholic Church. A few years…

— Gail Buckley

The lunatic populism that preceded the Pearl Harbor bombing is astonishing in its permutations, its crisscrossings. Guys like [Catholic priest and controversial…

— James Ellroy

“As Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Prefect of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, has admitted regarding the suppression of the traditional…

— Christopher A. Ferrara

The common man or women, whether they are Israeli or Palestinian, Protestant or Catholic or Iraqi or American, the common man just…

— Woody Harrelson

...it is proper that the duty of helping the poor and unfortunate should especially stir Catholics, since they are members of the…

— Pope John XXII

“It is important to point out here that I am distinguishing catholicity (with a lowercase “c”) from Catholicism (with an uppercase “C”)…

— Ilia Delio

“mother, with her upbringing in the primitive Baptist church, believed that converting to Roman Catholicism was a step upward in the social…

— Pat Conroy

Growing up in New Orleans, my mom and dad were churchgoers. I would go to church with them. Also, I was going…

— Avery Johnson

The idea of universal brotherhood is innate in the catholic nature of Chinese thought; it was the dominant concept of Dr. Sun…

— Chiang Kai-shek

“just show a little humility. If you know your weaknesses you will not be enslaved by them.”

— Fiorella de Maria

If I had to label myself now, I'd call myself a Taoist-Christian-agnostic quantum mechanic.

— Moby

“well-meaning Christians almost killed the faith eight hundred years ago”

— Jon M. Sweeney

Any appellative at all savouring of arbitrary rank is unsuitable to a man of liberal and catholic mind.

— Herman Melville

It is precisely our job as Catholics to speak the truth as plainly and precisely as we can.

— Sargent Shriver

I'm not Christian, but I'm religious. I believe in a higher God and beings and spirits.

— Gunplay

Seek in reading and you will find in meditation; knock in prayer and it will be opened to you in contemplation.

— John of the Cross

Do not forget that true love sets no conditions; it does not calculate or complain, but simply loves.

— Pope John Paul II

The first 10 years of my education were spent at a Catholic school in Springfield, Mass.

— Ann Dowd

I think because I was brought up in a Christian home, I was kind of careful not to swear in my lyrics.

— Avril Lavigne

In fact, that's a great thing about America and even about being Catholic, we have plenty of opinions.

— Tim Kaine

“The most evil institution in the world is the Roman Catholic Church.”

— H.G. Wells

In the sacraments, spirit and matter "kiss." Heaven and earth embrace in a union that will never end.

— Christopher West

Being raised Catholic myself, I think people who are Catholic tend to carry a lot of guilt. It's almost a joke.

— Linda Cardellini

I was suppose to be a Jesuit priest or a naval academy graduate.

— Jimmy Buffett

All the evils of the world are due to lukewarm Catholics.

— Pope Pius V