Catholic Quotes · Page 55

He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.

— Anonymous

Temptation is necessary to make us realize that we are nothing in ourselves.

— Josemaria Escriva

It is better that the truth be known than that scandal be covered up.

— Saint Augustine

Is the Pope Catholic. No I'm serious. I really need to know.

— David Beckham

I never outgrew my conversion to atheism at 13, but at various times was a serious cultural Jew.

— Steven Pinker

I grew up in the United Methodist Church, and church was always a very big part of my growing up.

— Hilarie Burton

In matters concerning religion, I consider myself not a child but an adult with 35 years of experience.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I didn't have the calling to be a priest. You know, either you do or you don't.

— George Mikan

Whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through Him to God…

— Bible

May all Christians be found worthy of either the pure white crown of a holy life or the royal red crown of…

— Cyprian

[Pope] Francis ought to be taken at his word when he says, as he has often done, that he is a son…

— George Weigel

The people I grew up around, almost all of them had been born and raised in the South. And, you know, they…

— Edward P. Jones

My goal is to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not about God alone, but agnosticism about everything.

— Robert Anton Wilson

I've always been really artistic. I went to an all-girls private Catholic school, and one of their biggest things was musical theater.

— Daniela Bobadilla

I am the wheat of God, and am ground by the teeth of the wild beasts, that I may be found the…

— Ignatius of Antioch

Let me be clear: I am a Methodist. By that, I mean I think John Wesley was a recovery of Catholic Christianity…

— Stanley Hauerwas

“Many fervent Christians who are moved by the Passion and death of Christ on the Cross no longer have the strength to…

— Robert Sarah

An effort to declare the ban on contraception ‘infallible’ would have the immediate effect of focusing Catholic dissent on the doctrine of…

— Rosemary Radford Ruether

I had a born-again experience at the age of 33. As a result of that I found a church where I felt…

— Bill McCartney

“He was having one of those lucid moments that make you, as a loved one of an Alzheimer's victim, forget for a…

— Mark Shriver

“Because of this, I feel I am performing a work of love, not of hostility. I do not aim to accuse the…

— Adalbert de Vogue monk of La Pierre-qui-Vire

Most recently, the President's reluctance to offend Senator Rick Santorum -- a Catholic theocrat who believes that states should have the power…

— Bill Keller

I was raised a Roman Catholic and had to go to the eight o'clock Mass every morning and have communion and wear…

— Roger McGuinn

We do not want an official state church. If ninety-nine percent of the population were Catholics, I would still be opposed to…

— John F. Kennedy

Holy Communion is the shortest and safest way to heaven.

— Pope Pius X

Though I was a Catholic, I recognized that Protestant churches had something.

— Ethel Waters

“I'm not a poet and I'm not a nature lover and I'm not an Anarchist. I am, thank God, absolutely nothing.”

— Nescio

I would not believe in the Gospel, if the authority of the Catholic Church did not bid me to do so.

— Saint Augustine

My grandfather, my mom's father, started what's now a fairly prominent Baptist church in Memphis.

— Christopher Eubanks

I was a Christian when I was young and didn't know any better.

— Derren Brown

These guys [the Catholic church] make Enron look like altar boys.

— Dan Rather

You also must be prepared, for at an hour you do not expect. -Matthew 24:44

— Bible

I have never fought in such a way as to say: I am the true Christian, others are not Christians.

— Soren Kierkegaard

The Catholic Church did not always teach that life begins at conception.

— Mario Cuomo

I was never argued out of faith; it was much more passive than that - and I wasn't argued back in, either.

— Francis Spufford

“Divine Wisdom speaks not to the world, but to her own children.”

— Blessed John Henry Newman

I'm fascinated by religion, but I'm not particularly religious.

— Mika

My family for several generations have been members of the Unitarian Church.

— Leverett Saltonstall

I can't speak to the differences within the Catholic Church.

— Jacob Lew

I believe in Christianity, Judaism and Islamism, but I stay away from churches, synagogues and mosques.

— Ted Lange