Catholic Quotes · Page 36

In my case I've never not been political, though religion tended to overshadow it in my acid days.

— John Lennon

I went to Boston College. It's a Catholic college, yeah I had a nickname there: Jew.

— Gary Gulman

The Roman Catholic Church isn't going to change its theologies.

— Robert H. Schuller

Humility is not an exaggeratedly low opinion of yourself. Humility is self-forgetfulness.

— Peter Kreeft

The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

I was brought up Catholic. Then I had a joint and looked at the world differently.

— Liam Gallagher

My family is Catholic. I went to a Catholic school, that kind of thing, so that was my childhood for sure.

— Conor Oberst

Our teaching may contain nothing impious, nothing diluted.

— Gregory of Nazianzus

I know of no wars started by anyone to impose lack of religion on someone else. We have lethal Sunni v Shia,…

— Simon Hoggart

My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies, I'll watch almost everything.

— James Dyson

Both my parents are Catholic and staunch believers. I'm not a Catholic now, but I still carry part of it with me.

— Andy Serkis

I've always thought I'd like to be something more exotic than C of E. I can't even say I'm lapsed. You don't…

— Jeremy Hardy

I found out that many of our Catholics simply don't know what the church teaches, and why, on a lot of issues,…

— Roger Mahony

There are only two or three places in Britain with Catholic and Protestant cathedrals,and Liverpool is one. My wife Montse and I…

— Rafael Benitez

I wanted to be a missionary and work abroad, but girls started to become a bigger part of my life around the…

— James McAvoy

I know many Catholics love God with all their heart. I have genuine respect for anyone who truly has given their life…

— Bill McCartney

“[ Taken from a BBC documentary ] Tariq was born in Lahore, now in Pakistan, then part of British-ruled India, in 1943.…

— Tariq Ali

There is no remedy so powerful against the heat of concupiscence as the remembrance of our Savior's Passion. In all my difficulties…

— Saint Augustine

The Catholic Church spends a lot of time in very poor countries trying to recruit and spread the Gospel. Let me put…

— Rush Limbaugh

Musically, there's a movement called the flatted fifth that's really evil-sounding. It was outlawed by the Catholic Church during the Middle Ages.…

— Kirk Hammett

Each of you knows that the foundation of our faith is charity. Without it, our religion would crumble. We will never be…

— Pier Giorgio Frassati

“No soul ever fell away from God without giving up prayer. Prayer is that which establishes contact with Divine Power and opens…

— Fulton J. Sheen

We never try to convert those who receive (aid) to Christianity but in our work we bear witness to the love of…

— Mother Teresa

For how shall we fill people with blind faith in the correctness of a doctrine, if we ourselves spread uncertainty and doubt…

— Adolf Hitler

When lies have been accepted for some time, the truth always astounds with an air of novelty.

— Clement of Alexandria

I'm not a spiritual person at all, but I do think that the world doesn't have to be as lonely as it…

— Adam Duritz

“He was a natural Protestant when I met him.", Em would say. "He protested everything.”

— Jerry Pinto

I'm more spiritual than I am religious. I don't go to church; I go to the beach.

— Paula Deen

As a teenager, I increasingly had questions about religion to which I found no good answers.

— Julian Baggini

I suppose I'm a lapsed Catholic. You would consider me an atheist or agnostic.

— George R. R. Martin

I went to a school run by Catholic nuns. They were really strict.

— Sofia Vergara

Every Sunday my dad calls to ask if I went to church. And every Sunday I lie and say: Sorry. Wrong Number.

— Anthony Jeselnik

So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education

— Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

Let us listen to what all the faithful say, because in every one of them the Spirit of God breathes.

— Paulinus of Nola

From the Cross, Christ teaches us to love even those who do not love us.

— Pope Francis

I defy any of my coreligionists to tell me they do not laugh at the idea of Dawkins burning in hell.

— Ann Coulter

I walked away from going to church when I was 8. I didn't set foot in another church until I was 28.

— Billy Corgan

I don't say that I don't believe in God because that implies that there is a God for me not to believe…

— Douglas Adams

I had quite a religious upbringing. I gave my life over to Christ at 11. I took it back when I was about 14.

— Brian Molko

Hierarchy, as in the Catholic Church, has to do with power, and vertical attention has to do with longing.

— Robert Bly