Catholic Quotes · Page 43

It was the Baptists who preached a kind of Social Gospel that captured my attention and imagination.

— Raphael Warnock

Because I cannot rely on myself, I rely on Him, twenty-four hours a day.

— Mother Teresa

In order to have faith, or follow any other organized religion, I'd have to suspend a degree of disbelief.

— Pete Townshend

I'm Irish. That means I'm Catholic. But, truth is, now I'm a retired Christian.

— Peter O'Toole

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

— Albert Einstein

To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Why are you terrified? Do you not yet have faith? -Mark 4 :40

— Bible

Do to others whatever you would have them do to you . -Matthew 7:12

— Bible

When I was a kid I went to Catholic school, and they used to drag us out to pro-life rallies and stuff…

— Tim Heidecker

I was an altar boy, I took catechism classes and religion classes, and I prayed a lot as a child. My family…

— Neale Donald Walsch

Growing up, my religious identity was primarily one of confusion. Nothing was pushed on me; nothing was overtly offered.

— Andy Dunn

Once the Roman Catholic Church in the West became the church most closely connected with the state, the Roman Catholic Church did…

— Susan Jacoby

I was raised Catholic, and I remember in all the pamphlets and pictures we'd look at, Jesus was basically blonde with blue…

— Joel Edgerton

The death of Pope John Paul II led many of different faiths and of no faith to acknowledge their debt to the…

— Suzanne Fields

I'm a church boy. I got whuppin's. So I'm afraid at any moment my grandmother could just swing down from heaven with…

— Anthony Hamilton

I was never close to Jerry Falwell because he had his ministry, I had mine. And we came from different theological training…

— Robert H. Schuller

We were a religious, practicing, Catholic family - Mass together on Sunday, Catholic schools, and parents who practiced everything they preached. A…

— Anonymous

“Why did Our Blessed Lord use bread and wine as the elements of this Memorial? First of all, because no two substances…

— Fulton J. Sheen

“Perhaps a past of bingeing, restricting, or purging comes back to haunt you from time to time. Maybe you have to fight…

— Kate Wicker

I am the stereo-typical classic lapsed Catholic. Religious themes crop up in my songs sometimes as metaphors and other kinds of touchstones…

— Ted Leo

If you learn from Saint Thérèse to depend on God alone and serve him with a wholly pure and detached heart, then…

— Edith Stein

By his own will Christ was dependent on Mary during Advent: he was absolutely helpless; he could go nowhere but where she…

— Caryll Houselander

“We do not have to look about us very far or for very long to realize the disastrous effects produced on the…

— Jean Déchanet

My grandmother made sure that I went to church every Sunday. And she'd come over and pick us boys up, and we…

— John Mellencamp

“But I make it in time for the Gospel, which in Catholic lore means that it still "counts".”

— Kerry Weber

My mother was a churchgoing lady, so I always heard about God at home

— Smokey Robinson

Anyway, I try to be a good guy. I try to tell the truth, but I'm not religious.

— William H. Macy

I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.

— Charles Darwin

I would love to be a Franciscan brother. I'm just not sure I have the courage to do it.

— Rich Mullins

My mom's a Christian and she loves me; that whole side of my family is Christian and I have no problem with…

— Jake Shears

The people who are behind the curve of the Catholic future are the institutional-maintenance types.

— George Weigel

My mother was very agnostic. She would never set foot in the synagogue, she couldn't be doing with it.

— Janet Suzman

Mama wanted me to be a preacher. I told her coachin' and preachin' were a lot alike.

— Bear Bryant

I have nothing against religion but I'm not religious so dont pitch that shit in my direction.

— Anonymous

If you're a Catholic you believe what the Church teaches and the climate makes no difference.

— Flannery O'Connor

When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth.

— Tori Amos

I'm a Baha'i. I'm not a Muslim. I'm Baha'i. And the Baha'i faith is such a sweet faith.

— Omid Djalili

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