Catholic Quotes · Page 42

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

— Neil Young

“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 sometimes joke that I'm half Jewish, because I was raised Catholic... and we share 'the guilt.'

— John Densmore

“If there are damned souls in Hell, it is because men blind themselves.”

— Anonymous

I was raised as a Catholic and received the body and blood of Jesus Christ every Sunday at communion until I was…

— Joe Queenan

I wasn't really a dark kid, but I was in my head a lot. I got good grades all through my 16…

— Karen Abbott

I was in church a little bit as a very young kid, but, as they say in the South, 'it didnt take.'…

— Randy Travis

I am an atheist. I was born a Catholic, but after I had traveled to Northern Ireland with some Catholic friends, and…

— Guy Laliberte

[Mary] is the safest, easiest, shortest and most perfect way of approaching Jesus and will surrender themselves to her, body and soul,…

— Louis de Montfort

Between Pope Francis tour of the U.S. which I think was a triumph really for liberals, he really sort of for the…

— Joy-Ann Reid

The Catholic Church sees voluntary vampirism as a kind of suicide. I tend to agree. Though the Pope also excommunicated all animators,…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.

— Bertrand Russell

“If I were not a Catholic, and were looking for the true Church in the world today, I would look for the…

— Fulton J. Sheen

If we let Christ into our lives, we lose nothing, nothing, absolutely nothing of what makes life free, beautiful, and great. No!…

— Pope Benedict XVI

I don't know how you feel, but I'm pretty sick of church people. You know what they ought to do with churches?…

— George Carlin

In terms of what Hillary Clinton, who's running for president, thinks about Catholics and the value more broadly of having a faith…

— Tim Kaine

“62. It is neither wise nor laudable to reduce everything to antiquity by every possible device. Thus, to cite some instances, one…

— Pope Pius XII

The apostles and their successors are God's vicars in governing the Church which is built on faith and the sacraments of faith.…

— Thomas Aquinas

The fact that President-elect Kennedy would be the first Catholic president did not sit well with many Americans. There was a fear…

— Clint Hill

Lord knows---and we both know --- that too many wrongs have been committed in the name of religion. ... But you're not…

— Heather Graham

My degree in theology was an important part of my formation.

— Jeff Fortenberry

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 do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.

— Clarence Darrow

I was raised Catholic in the Midwest, so I can't enjoy anything.

— Kyle Kinane

My granddad and great granddad were Baptist preachers from Western Kentucky.

— Andy Beshear

I have four children which is not bad considering I'm not a Catholic.

— Peter Ustinov

I am 95% a theist and 5% an atheist; thus ultimately I am an agnostic.

— Kedar Joshi

Each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ.

— Pope John Paul II

I grew up in a household in which the Bible played very little role.

— Frank Moore Cross

I had gone to a Catholic prep school where everyone was rich and having kids by the time they were 30.

— Jay Duplass