Catholic Quotes · Page 41

Let us return from that Table like lions breathing out fire, terrifying to the devil!

— Saint John Chrysostom

I was brought up a Catholic and I was quite fervent, because I was sent to a convent school.

— Marina Warner

I don't respect religon. I don't respect superstitious thinking and that is what religous is.

— Bill Maher

I don't do anything in my life as far as I know, or at least consciously, that's based in religion.

— Dave Rubin

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

In 1953 there were two ways for an Irish Catholic boy to impress his parents: become a priest or attend Notre Dame.

— Phil Donahue

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives to all men generously and without reproaching, and it will…

— James, son of Zebedee

Once she has committed sin, there is nothing left for the Protestant woman, whereas the Catholic Church, hope of forgiveness makes a…

— Honore de Balzac

My own personal connection with God was not in a religious sense, so I wasn't really thinking in that way when I…

— Amber Tamblyn

That's enough, and I have a ministry as a neighbor as well. A ministry as a friend and a ministry as an…

— Barbara Brown Taylor

One of the reasons there are largely Catholic and largely Protestant regions of Germany today is that people did sort themselves out…

— Susan Jacoby

I was brought up by an Episcopalian father and Presbyterian mother in nondenominational Army chapels all over the world and never really…

— Sally Quinn

I am not capable of doing big things, but I want to do everything, even the smallest things, for the greater glory…

— Dominic Savio

All Jesus' pictures are falsifications; they cannot be about the real Jesus. This real man must have been totally different, because we…

— Rajneesh

I did study drama at Catholic U, but the undergraduates weren't put in productions, really, except as extras, and it wasn't a…

— Susan Sarandon

I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that…

— Isabel Allende

Growing up in Asia in a particular time period - the '50s and '60s - I attended a Catholic missionary school where…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

I don't trust Catholics," I said, "because they take advantage of you." "And Protestants?" he asked with a laugh. "I loathe the…

— Heinrich Böll

It's the living, the eating, the sleeping that everyone needs. Ideas don't matter so much after all. My three best friends are…

— Sylvia Plath

It's funny that there was so much disturbance about having a Catholic in the White House with Kennedy, and when we finally…

— Roger Ebert

Human progress planned as alternatives (to God's plan) introduce in justice, evil and violence rising against the divine plan of justice and…

— Pope John Paul II

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

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

— Clement of Alexandria

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

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

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