Catholic Quotes · Page 46

For the Lord will give you understanding in everything. -2 Timothy 2:7

— Bible

I was in the ministry for some time. All my family is immersed in a black church in Memphis.

— Merle Dandridge

Hierarchy, as in the Catholic Church, has to do with power, and vertical attention has to do with longing.

— Robert Bly

Neither the true faith nor eternal salvation is to be found outside the Holy Catholic Church.

— Pope Pius IX

He who labors as he prays lifts his heart to God with his hands.

— Benedict of Nursia

Any innovation in matters of faith is extremely pernicious and utterly damnable!

— John Eudes

“Essentially I'm a pantheist-agnostic. I worship many deities with equal amounts of confusion.”

— Jonathan Ames

“If they don't believe what the Church teaches, they're not really Catholic”

— Anonymous

The only reason the Protestants and Catholics have given up the idea of universal domination is because they've realised they can't get…

— W. H. Auden

In the nineteenth century, many Anglican theologians, both evangelical and catholic, embraced positively the proposal of evolution.

— Arthur Peacocke

I have nothing against religion. It's just that I can't stand it when I burst into flames whenever I tread on holy…

— Anonymous

“We must go out to Pure Life, Pure Truth, Pure Love, and that is the definition of God. He is the ultimate…

— Fulton J. Sheen

During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school.

— Lionel Blue

Oh, the Protestants hate the Catholics/ And the Catholics hate the Protestants/ And the Hindus hate the Muslims/ And everybody hates the…

— Tom Lehrer

I grew up in the church. My mother was highly religious. I was singing at the age of five for big congregations.

— Carmen Cusack

“She was brought up in the reformed Protestant Church but left it at the age of seventeen in protest against its restrictive…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

What stood me in good stead was my upbringing. I had a musician father, a very religious mother who totally supported us.…

— Suzi Quatro

If I were to meet the slave-traders who kidnapped me and even those who tortured me, I would kneel and kiss their…

— Josephine Bakhita

So the divine love is sacrificial love. Love does not mean to have and to own and to possess. It means to…

— Fulton J. Sheen

Everyone should avoid familiarity or friendship with anyone suspected of belonging to masonry or to affiliated groups. Know them by their fruits…

— Pope Leo XIII

If Christ is God, He cannot sin, and if suffering was a sin in and by itself, He could not have suffered…

— Anonymous

This may sound pernickety but I wouldn't describe myself as an evangelical. These are labels, which I don't think are helpful. If…

— Nicky Gumbel

One of the reasons they didn't go to Bosnia, bin Laden has explained extensively, was because they couldn't establish a base anywhere.…

— Michael Scheuer

“For though we know quite well that God is present in all that we do, our nature is such that it makes…

— Teresa of Ávila

Our church has been legal since late 1960s. I've been involved since 1972. I was ordained in 1975.

— Sally Kirkland

Never measure your generosity by what you give, but rather by what you have left.

— Fulton J. Sheen

I'm anti-religious. I don't like people telling me what to do.

— David Rakoff

From the Cross, Christ teaches us to love even those who do not love us.

— Pope Francis

I defy any of my coreligionists to tell me they do not laugh at the idea of Dawkins burning in hell.

— Ann Coulter

I walked away from going to church when I was 8. I didn't set foot in another church until I was 28.

— Billy Corgan

I had quite a religious upbringing. I gave my life over to Christ at 11. I took it back when I was about 14.

— Brian Molko

I don't say that I don't believe in God because that implies that there is a God for me not to believe…

— Douglas Adams

I'm not a spiritual person at all, but I do think that the world doesn't have to be as lonely as it…

— Adam Duritz

“He was a natural Protestant when I met him.", Em would say. "He protested everything.”

— Jerry Pinto

I'm more spiritual than I am religious. I don't go to church; I go to the beach.

— Paula Deen

As a teenager, I increasingly had questions about religion to which I found no good answers.

— Julian Baggini

I suppose I'm a lapsed Catholic. You would consider me an atheist or agnostic.

— George R. R. Martin

I went to a school run by Catholic nuns. They were really strict.

— Sofia Vergara

Every Sunday my dad calls to ask if I went to church. And every Sunday I lie and say: Sorry. Wrong Number.

— Anthony Jeselnik

So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education

— Abdullah Ahmad Badawi