Catholic Quotes · Page 39

Even though I respect many different religions, I don't really particularly just follow one.

— Cristian Machado

On Sundays, I just love to go to church and then relax the whole day!

— Laurie Hernandez

I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'.

— Thomas Huxley

“I carry a picture of Buffy Sainte-Marie in my wallet and I’m not even Catholic.”

— Ron Burgundy

Any goal without salvation as its ultimate end is as pointless as trying to live forever on this earth.

— Tarek Saab

I always say I'm Catholic in my complications and Buddhist in my aspirations.

— Boy George

I tend not to make fun of religious groups anywhere I play.

— Maz Jobrani

Atheism is a cruel long term business, and I have gone through it to the end.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

I considered becoming a priest very seriously. I wanted to travel the world. By the time I turned 16, I realized I…

— James McAvoy

I was brought up as a Catholic, and I'm no longer a Catholic. I don't talk about my beliefs too much in…

— Alan Alda

For years I had been disillusioned by the Church of England's compromising on everything. The Catholic Church doesn't care if something is…

— Ann Widdecombe

You almost had to have grown up in the church like I did to realize how dark that is, how dark it…

— Leslie Jordan

The biggest thing I lost when I left religion was that sense of community and the culture. It was an unexpected kind…

— Ari Shaffir

For me, church was about not only religion but about community. A woman in my grandmother's church helped pay for my SAT…

— Jamila Woods

See? This is why I'm not religious. I couldn't possibly keep my mouth shut long enough to get along with everyone else.

— Jim Butcher

It took the Church until 1832 to remove Galileo 's work from its list of books which Catholics were forbidden to read…

— Carl Sagan

You can call happy those who saw Him... But, come to the altar and you will see Him, you will touch Him,…

— Saint John Chrysostom

While it is true that the taking of life not yet born or in it's final stages is sometimes marked by a…

— Pope John Paul II

The declared enemies of God and His Church, heretics and schismatics, must be criticized as much as possible, as long as truth…

— Saint Francis de Sales

When I was nineteen, pureness was the great issue. Instead of the world being divided up into Catholics and Protestants or Republicans…

— Sylvia Plath

A great purposelessness has descended upon modern civilizations. People at large have lost any sense of the meaning and purpose of life;…

— Matthew Kelly

We need to realize that a society in which contraceptives are widely used is going to have a very difficult time keeping…

— Janet E. Smith

I went to a Presbyterian college, you know, I was in... all the way, and so I remember doing my first sermon…

— Woody Harrelson

Let us never give in to pessimism, to that bitterness that the devil offers us every day. Do not give in to…

— Pope Francis

It's not that I don't believe in a God. It's that I believe in more than a God could ever give me...

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

Religion wasn't imposed on me. I dabbled with faith, and I explored religion quite thoroughly.

— Hozier

My mom always said that if the Protestants catch a Catholic in their church, they feed them to the Jews.

— Kate O'Brien

Christ has made my soul beautiful with the jewels of grace and virtue. I belong to Him Whom the Angels serve.

— Agnes of Rome

If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!

— Teresa of Avila

I am a Catholic, not so committed to the church, but to the idea of the Virgin, the female face of God.

— Paulo Coelho

Eighteen years ago, the Holy Spirit led me to establish a church in the heart of Times Square.

— David Wilkerson

All the things that are now worrying you can be put into a smile which shows your love of God.

— Josemaria Escriva

I do benefits for all religions - I'd hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality.

— Bob Hope

Children who were very truly pious in a Catholic childhood are apt to retain a nostalgia for the absolute.

— Sonia Orwell

During my school days, I was the darling of the pastor in my church.

— Sherlyn Chopra

I'm not religious in any formal sense, not in any God sense.

— Al Purdy

I am not a religious person, but I am spiritual. But I don't believe in things like guilt.

— Janet Jackson

I'm a good Catholic girl in the way that Madonna is. In the sense that I'm not that good at all.

— Heather Graham

Our body is a cenacle, a monstrance: through its crystal the world should see God.

— Gianna Beretta Molla

He should first show them in deeds rather than words all that is good and holy.

— Anonymous