I read a lot of G.K. Chesterton. It was a fairly conventional intellectual path to the Catholic church, I would say. — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
I will forever stick up for Catholics and Christians in general. With a small number of very horrible exceptions, they do play… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
It was my first impulse, but I chose to play the priest as a true believer who was an absolute man of… — William H. Macy Copy Share Image
I knew from the age of four that I wanted to preach. I didn't even consider it strange that grown people were… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
People are hungry for God. Do you see that? Quite often we look but do not see. We are all passing through… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
I knew that I had to be a preacher. I had to be a minister, which was a puzzle to me because… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
I hate dogma in any form. I hated it in the Catholic Church and Girl Scout troops of the 1950s, and I… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“It had remained a mystery to me, a catholic magic, i suppose. Faith is the best Googly one can bowl: God, the… — APORVAKALA Copy Share Image
When we were little, we kept close to our mother in a dark alley or if dogs barked at us. Now, when… — Josemaria Escriva Copy Share Image
I went to Catholic school, and there was this teacher, a Brother, who saw I could go either way, good or bad.… — William Forsythe Copy Share Image
The real differences around the world today are not between Jews and Arabs; Protestants and Catholics; Muslims, Croats, and Serbs. The real… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The entire force of the Conciliar revolt comes from the fact that it has apparently been imposed by the authority of the… — John Lane Copy Share Image
Clergymen tend to be unreliable and pompous figures. Seldom Jewish rabbis, less often Catholic priests, but Protestant ministers tend to be... not… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
Sometimes the sight of someone in one faith wrestling with that faith can empower you to wrestle with another faith. For me,… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
I was, not an altar boy, but a reader of the Epistle, and I walked in on a nun and a priest… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
At first we feel called by God and attracted by him. We grow in our vocation and get the impression that God… — Notker Wolf Copy Share Image
I learned a lot from both, initially Jewish and Muslim theologians that had been missing, perhaps from my rather parochial Catholic upbringing. — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
I tell my children what I think myself: That religion is not necessarily convincing, but it is still interesting and not to… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Whenever the clergy were at the elbow of the civil arm, no matter whether they were Catholic or Protestant, persecution was the… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
Just in relation to women, it's not that huge an imaginative leap to see the connection between the Taliban and the Catholic… — Peter Mullan Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a priest. I could have done that. I wanted to be a doctor. I could have done that.… — Paul Polman Copy Share Image
“I would not have described myself as a committed atheist for whom all spirituality was nonsense, but as an agnostic in whom… — Jennifer Worth Copy Share Image
The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I was baptized Methodist, but I was mainly raised First Church of NFL, which is to say that my family, especially my… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
I'd say my religious life has shaped my worldview; my writing, I'd say too, is an extension of the pulpit...it reaches folks… — Uwem Akpan Copy Share Image
My mother was a minister, so I grew up in a church. My grandfather was a minister; there are a bunch of… — Gregory Porter Copy Share Image
I grew up in the Southern Baptist Church, where my father was a minister at music, so I sang in the church… — Missi Pyle Copy Share Image
You see, my father was a Catholic priest, Greek Orthodox, but I think he started out as a Jew, then he became… — Walter Matthau Copy Share Image
We don't normally go on about the fact that Roman Catholics once upon a time didn't have the vote and weren't allowed… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
“I got religion in the third grade, and jeepers, did I need it. The devil was in me, and Hardy Biesterveld wasn't… — Michael Perry Copy Share Image
I went to an all-girls' Catholic school for, like, six years during the time when kids actually had handwriting class. I've always… — Meghan Markle Copy Share Image
Catholics Come Home inspires each of us to share God’s love with others, in order to help change the world for the… — Roma Downey Copy Share Image
Although I was raised in a profoundly secular home, I had a belief, an awareness of God, from as far back as… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Do not be afraid to be saints. Follow Jesus Christ who is the source of freedom and light. Be open to the… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
I always liked church. I was one of those kids who was desperate for the statue of Mary to talk to me,… — Carrie Coon Copy Share Image
I was a young, messed-up kid who didn't mature until he became a Christian. That was in 2008 - the rest of… — Nigel Benn Copy Share Image
My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
In the fulfillment of your duties, let your intentions be so pure that you reject from your actions any other motive than… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
I am and have always been a strong proponent of public education. But by the virtue of its very nature - publicly… — Mark Foley Copy Share Image
Twenty-two martyrs were recognized, but there were many more, and not only Catholics. There were also Anglicans and some Mohammedans. — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
