Catholic Quotes · Page 56

I was brought up in the church. I knew all the right things.

— Trevor Lawrence

I was still rooting for Notre Dame.It's like there's the cultural Catholic experience.

— Jim Gaffigan

I was raised a Catholic, was an altar boy, and at 14 I seriously considered becoming a priest.

— Demond Wilson

I would describe myself as a practising Catholic. This is only my opinion; others may disagree.

— Martin McGuinness

I was raised Catholic, so guilt shackles you from acting like a complete fool all the time.

— Keegan-Michael Key

I was an Agnostic. Agnostics didn't have much to argue about.

— Charles Bukowski

I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.

— Bono

I have never been religious, but I've seen the strength of it.

— Sebastian Lelio

My fathers a clergyman, and he was in the mission field for a certain amount of time in British Honduras, which is…

— John Hurt

I was very religious when I was younger. I went to a seminary for three years, studied to be a priest, and…

— Peter P. Mahoney

“I once preached to a man in a telephone booth, Long ago during the days of my youth, I grew up different…

— Lisbon Tawanda Chigwenjere

My mother was an unbeliever - and still is. My father was a nominal Catholic. We would go in to church at…

— Frederica Mathewes-Green

Religion has been an essential part of my life ever since I was baptised. My personal journey with God has been very…

— Andy Griffith

My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family…

— Tony Blair

I was raised with no religious training or influence. Except the influence was to be a moral and ethical person at the…

— Anne Lamott

We are amphibious creatures, weaponed for two elements, having two sets of faculties, the particular and the catholic.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

This is the heritage of Catholic education ... one which those who went to Catholic schools always recognize in each other, members…

— Sonia Orwell

I wrote to my bishop, the Archbishop of Utrecht, Holland, and explained that I wanted not just permission to stay longer, but…

— Henri Nouwen

In kindergarten, we had this Irish Catholic headmistress called Sister Leonie, and I remember she would tell us, say, to put the…

— Binyavanga Wainaina

It is sufficient to say, what everybody knows to be true, that the Irish population is Catholic, and that the Protestants, whether…

— John Bright

This my goodness does to endow the souls of the just more fully with spiritual riches when for my love they are…

— St. Catherine of Siena

My parents, neither one of them went to college. That wasn't available to them. But, you know, we had a wonderful life.…

— Tad Devine

[Sviatoslav] Schevchuk, in the dogmatic part declares himself to be a son of the Church and in communion with the bishop of…

— Pope Francis

When I was a young boy, my father taught me that to be a good Catholic, I had to confess at church…

— Fidel Castro

“I'm not religious, I'm spiritual and I practice my spirituality religiously.”

— Meilena Hauslendale

I grew up in the Episcopal Church, went to private school in that church, went to chapel every day.

— Brandon Victor Dixon

I'm not a Jesus freak, I'm not a satan worshipper. I'm a contradiction, a juxtaposition.

— Tairrie B

I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it.

— Isaac Asimov

I've got a statue of St. Francis in my front yard, and I'm not even a practicing Catholic.

— Michael Keaton

I was raised in church, but we still used to watch '106 & Park' and BET.

— GloRilla

When I was little, like 7 to 15, there was nothing I wanted to do but go to church and go to school.

— Mary J. Blige

I'm a religious person. I honestly believe we will see each other in heaven someday.

— George Strait

My mom's Jewish and my dad's Irish Catholic alcoholic, so I whine on the inside.

— Margaret Smith

My father was a minister, so I was a P.K., a preacher's kid.

— Dorothy Malone

I do not purpose to discuss faith in its dogmatic sense today.

— Matthew Simpson

My oldest son, Gary, is a seasoned minister and travels with me for ministers' conferences.

— David Wilkerson

Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.

— Fulton J. Sheen

I'm not an evangelical, because that means that I exclude the Catholics and main-liners, and Orthodox.

— Bill Bright

Holiness doesn't mean doing extraordinary things, but doing ordinary things with love and faith.

— Pope Francis

With my meager knowledge of my own religion I do not want to belong to any religious body

— Mahatma Gandhi