Catholic Quotes · Page 59

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

— Saint Augustine

“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 wish we had more visible Christian and Catholic leaders who talked about love.

— Anne Rice

I'm not a religious person; I'm not even, like, a spiritual person.

— Tig Notaro

I was brought up a Catholic, so I take no pleasure in guilt.

— Imelda Staunton

Had I become a priest, the sermons would've been electric!

— Johnny Vegas

I was raised in Catholic school where we were given a lot of heavy literature and a dense, weighty lyric wasn't strange…

— Jennifer Warnes

God passionately desires and ardently yearns for our salvation... Nothing is greater than this: that the blood of God was poured out…

— Pope John Paul II

I was raised in a Catholic household and went to a Catholic school, and my childhood brain perceived medieval Catholicism as an…

— Grimes

I don’t believe in God as you imagine Him to be, but I believe in many things that you could never even…

— Paulo Coelho

That phrase "hocus-pocus" started out as "hocus-pocus dominocus", and was, in the beginning, a mocking imitation of the holy incantations of the…

— L. M. Boyd

“The spiritual director should not reduce his attention to the internal life because of external occupations, nor should he relinquish his care…

— Pope Gregory I

The Catholic Church [with Pope John Paul II] has lost its shepherd. The world has lost a champion of human freedom.

— Chris Matthews

When you happen to be entirely unoccupied with created things so that you seem to be thinking of nothing and desiring nothing,…

— Jean-Pierre de Caussade

“I have dedicated my life to fight against the heinous rottenness of modern capitalism because it robs the laborer of this world's…

— Charles E. Coughlin

I have held and hold souls to be immortal… Speaking as a Catholic, they do not pass from body to body, but…

— Giordano Bruno

We are not only interested in those aspects of the mystery of the Roman Catholic Church which set her apart from the…

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

I remember one time when all the nuns in my Catholic grade school got around in a semicircle, me and Mom in…

— Chris Farley

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

— Anonymous

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

I grew up with my grandmother because my parents were making careers and didn't have much time for me. She was a…

— Marina Abramovic

My mother has an incredible rigidity, which is very Catholic.

— Manolo Blahnik

I don't describe myself as a Christian or religious, but I like to think that how I live my life is honest.

— Iris DeMent

I myself am not religious, but yes, I certainly grew up in a very Catholic environment.

— Patrick Collison

There is only one tragedy in the end, not to have been a saint.

— Leon Bloy

With good will render service, as to the Lord, and not to men. -Ephesians 6:7 Ephesians 2:4-5

— Bible

You know, my children go to a local, local catholic school just down the road.

— John Deacon

The gate of heaven is very low; only the humble can enter it.

— Elizabeth Ann Seton

God is Love. We eventually have to ask ourselves the question; why was Love nailed to a cross?

— Pope John Paul II

No one can be, at the same time, a sincere Catholic and a true Socialist.

— Pope Pius XI

I am neither Jew nor Gentile, Mahomedan nor Theist; I am but a member of the human family.

— Frances Wright

For one pain endured with joy, we shall love the good God more forever.

— Therese of Lisieux

I'm very religious. I believe that things happen, and you have to go along with them.

— Debbie Reynolds

You have to say no to something else, in order to make time to pray.

— Peter Kreeft

As you know, I am neither Roman Catholic, Protestant Episcopalian, nor Presbyterian, nor am I an Irishman.

— John Bright

Love to be real, it must cost—it must hurt—it must empty us of self.

— Mother Teresa

Some people believe that - pardon my language - in order to be good Catholics, we should be like rabbits. No.

— Pope Francis