Catholic Quotes · Page 49

Catholic extremism should be resisted as fiercely at home as we oppose the Taliban abroad.

— Jacob M. Appel

I advocate the abolition of all religions, without setting up anything new of the kind.

— Richard Carlile

Every school that I have ever attended, except for kindergarten, I went to a Catholic institution.

— Blase J. Cupich

I used to carry my father's Bible and put it on the pulpit so he could preach.

— Mr. T

Becoming a junior usher at a black church was my entry into the wonder of worship.

— Isaiah Washington

Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.

— Pope John XXII

He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.

— Kingsley Amis

I am a reformed Catholic. I'm a Buddhist in other words.

— George Sanders

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential.

— Pope John XXII

“Prayer is the key that opens heaven; the favors we ask descend upon us the very instant our prayers ascend to God.”

— St. Augustine

In theory I am an agnostic, but pending the appearance of rational evidence, I must be classed, practically and provisionally, as an…

— H. P. Lovecraft

There's been a lot of Catholic parody - 'Nunsense,' 'Sister Mary Ignatius' - I think they've almost been done to death, actually.

— Robert Lopez

I am unable to distinguish clearly between your religious ceremonies and apparently identical behavior at the sporting and cultural functions you have…

— Arthur C. Clarke

I also grew up with community co-parents who looked out for each other. They looked out for children and tried to be…

— Marian Wright Edelman

The Catholic Church is an innately conservative rock - they call themselves the 'rock of Peter' - and its resistance to change…

— Gabriel Byrne

Many, many people hereabouts are not becoming Christians for one reason only: there is nobody to make them Christians.

— Francis Xavier

Grace abounds in contemporary movies, books, novels, films and music. If God is not in the whirlwind, He may be in a…

— Brennan Manning

In college, I was like most young men, doing what pleased me and looking out mainly for my own interest. I had…

— Luke Scott

In all countries, in all centuries, the primary reason for government to set up schools is to undermine the politically weak by…

— Marshall Fritz

I never lost my faith...But like all modern Catholics, I felt for a time that I had outgrown the church. Now it…

— Martin Sheen

The time for letting the Christian bashing go on essentially unchallenged has come to an end... There is a great need for…

— D. James Kennedy

It is easy to forget, since the Catholic Church is now the only large American religious denomination whose ecclesiastical hierarchy continues to…

— Susan Jacoby

A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a…

— William Winwood Reade

My parents had us in church every Sunday, every Wednesday. It was more of a tradition at that point; I didn't have…

— Stephen Curry

I grew a very strong dislike for the organized aspect of religion over the course of time.

— David Draiman

I went to a catholic public school St Helens and learned English by watching bugs bunny cartoons.

— Nick Mancuso

Faced with the election of a Catholic, our culture is at stake.

— Norman Vincent Peale

My mother was sort of mildly religious, but the rest of us, you know, we didn't really have it forced on us.

— Justin Chancellor

If anyone wishes to be first, he shall be the last of all and the servant of all. -Mark 9:35

— Bible

I was steeped in the understanding that if 'something is Roman [Catholic], it must be wrong.

— Scott Hahn

It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have.

— Richard Dawkins

My family was a Christian family. But I had to get to Kansas to play the blues.

— Jay McShann

Certainly, I find that 'Mere Christianity' speaks to me. So why am I still an agnostic? Beats me.

— Charles Murray

I went to Catholic grade school, so we sang a lot of religious songs: 'O Holy Night,' 'Silent Night.'

— Michael McDonald

Both my parents are Methodist preachers, I grew up in a church.

— Wes Bentley

People do think I'm Jewish. But we're Irish Catholic. My father had a brogue.

— Martin Short

He is as good a Catholic as Duke Alva's dog; who ate flesh in Lent.

— Dutch Proverb

When people ask me what my religion is, I say it's the Arsenal.

— Marcus du Sautoy

I believe that were it not for the Holy Mass, as of this moment the world would be in the abyss.

— Leonard of Port Maurice

I'm not exactly a religious person, but I am very spiritual.

— Madeline Brewer