Catholic Quotes · Page 38

And then my husband works every second weekend, sermons on Sunday, baptising on Saturdays, weddings.

— Sofia Helin

No man can attain to the knowledge of God but by humility. The way to mount high is to descend.

— Giles of Assisi

I'm not ashamed of my spiritual beliefs, but I in no way incorporate them into this band.

— Amy Lee

I guess I'm a Holy Spirit maniac. I'm not a religious maniac. I love religion, but I don't like it.

— Sinead O'Connor

I had to have some balls to be Irish Catholic in South London. Most of that time I spent fighting.

— Pierce Brosnan

I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism.

— Stanley Hauerwas

Just converted to a new religion. It's called idontgiveafuckism.

— Nikhil Saluja

Evangelistic preaching is what Daddy does, I never thought I would.

— Franklin Graham

Let's start with the church. As you know, it's my background, it's a natural setting for me and it's definitely my roots.

— Aretha Franklin

In Indonesia, I had spent two years at a Muslim school, two years at a Catholic school. In the Muslim school, the…

— Barack Obama

Coffee is not as necessary to ministers of the reformed faith as to Catholic priests. The latter are not allowed to marry,…

— Elisabeth Charlotte d'Orleans

I still use a lot of good values from growing up in the Church, and there was a sense of community. But…

— Brendon Urie

Protestants do not very often disagree with what Catholics believe, but they do very often disagree with what they think Catholics believe.

— Dwight Longenecker

I suffer from Irish-Catholic guilt. Guilt is a good reality check. It keeps that ‘do what makes you happy’ thing in check.

— Edward Burns

God empowered him; and my father, when he stood to preach, he wasn't preaching his message, he was preaching God's message.

— Franklin Graham

Catholic media sucks. It's boring. It's for old people. It's not interesting. It's like you're in a class with an 80 year…

— Lino Rulli

Both of my parents were raised in Christian homes, which was great. They instilled in us that God came first and they…

— Mike Fisher

In Italy, the Inquisition was condemning people to death until the end of the eighteenth century, and inquisitional torture was not abolished…

— Carl Sagan

“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

The Roman Catholic Church early on simply adapted the hierarchical structure of the Roman Empire and confused the whole thing. Vertical attention…

— Robert Bly

My grandmother and mother were from Italy, so I was raised Catholic. That kind of just meant going to church on Easter…

— Sonny Sandoval

People who are atheists, they hate God, they hate the expression of God, and they are angry with the world, angry with…

— Pat Robertson

I think I was about seven years old, and I remember I was at Moffat Road Baptist Church, where I grew up…

— Jake Peavy

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

All the wealth in the world cannot be compared with the happiness of living together happily united.

— Marie-Marguerite d'Youville

I don't want to get involved in the culture war. Religion's iffy.

— Jim Gaffigan

I was religious probably until I was about eight but I always questioned stuff very early on.

— Richard Herring

My mom grew up in a strict Catholic family and moved to New York and became part of the Warhol factory.

— Gaby Hoffmann

I have friends who are Roman Catholics. I have friends who are Lutherans.

— Pat Robertson

I don't have a religion, you know. This is what I am. I am a Rastaman; so this is not religion. This…

— Bob Marley

The trouble with being a priest was that you eventually had to take the advice you gave to others.

— Walter M. Miller, Jr

You see my next door neighbour worships exhaust pipes, he's a catholic converter.

— Tim Vine

My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion.

— Jack Kevorkian

I don't believe in any religion apart from doing the will of God.

— Catherine Booth

I think the best part of being Catholic, strange as it might sound, is that I know it's right. It's true.

— Lino Rulli

I'm spiritual, yes, but I don't think about Judgment Day. I don't think about an angry God.

— Liv Tyler

It is because of faith that we exchange the present for the future.

— Fidelis of Sigmaringen

I'm a Catholic of the New Testament, I'm not a Catholic of the hierarchy.

— Anna Quindlen

I am agnostic only to the extent that I am agnostic about fairies at the bottom of the garden

— Richard Dawkins

I actually spoke in an African-American church yesterday.

— Howard Dean