“My parents didn't raise me to be religious. The closest we come to worship is the Trinity of Visa, MasterCard, and American… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. — Pope John XXII Copy Share Image
I think my mom recognized that I liked people to be happy. I like people to get along. And I like to… — Pete Holmes Copy Share Image
I've also committed my time and resources to many local organizations like Christmas in April, Catholic Community Services, and Hudson County Meals… — Vincent Frank Copy Share Image
I was a Catholic boy, I went to church every Sunday. A church has a certain magic and mystery for a child.… — Robert Mapplethorpe Copy Share Image
I wish I was a more religious person. I really admire Martin Sheen for his Catholicism. It's such a bedrock. I wish… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
I was born and raised Catholic, so it's in my blood. I don't go to church... I was born and raised Catholic,… — Tom Araya Copy Share Image
I didn't go to Catholic school but I had a tough teacher, a tough math teacher.I remember everything that guy taught me.… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
My grandmother and mother were from Italy, so I was raised Catholic. That kind of just meant going to church on Easter… — Sonny Sandoval Copy Share Image
When we stand in the light it is not we who illumine the light and cause it to shine but we are… — Irenaeus of Lyons Copy Share Image
Communism, my friend, is more than Marxism, just as Catholicism is more than the Roman Curia. There is a mystique as well… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
We must remember that if all the manifestly good men were on one side and all the manifestly bad men on the… — Frederick William Faber Copy Share Image
Religious liberty in a nation is as real as the liberty of its least popular religious minority. Look not to the size… — Paul Blanshard Copy Share Image
The lunatic populism that preceded the Pearl Harbor bombing is astonishing in its permutations, its crisscrossings. Guys like [Catholic priest and controversial… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
“[ Taken from a BBC documentary ] Tariq was born in Lahore, now in Pakistan, then part of British-ruled India, in 1943.… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
There is no remedy so powerful against the heat of concupiscence as the remembrance of our Savior's Passion. In all my difficulties… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
My main source for faith-based stuff is mostly the Bible, and a childhood with a much, much higher-than-median exposure to theological thought. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
I never went to church a day in my life. The dominant religion (influence) in my family was my grandfather who was… — Jason Jones Copy Share Image
Many, many people hereabouts are not becoming Christians for one reason only: there is nobody to make them Christians. — Francis Xavier Copy Share Image
The Catholic Church is an innately conservative rock - they call themselves the 'rock of Peter' - and its resistance to change… — Gabriel Byrne Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Prayer is the key that opens heaven; the favors we ask descend upon us the very instant our prayers ascend to God.” — St. Augustine Copy Share Image
There's been a lot of Catholic parody - 'Nunsense,' 'Sister Mary Ignatius' - I think they've almost been done to death, actually. — Robert Lopez Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“The world in which we now live is a world whose outlook is so distorted that we absolutize what is relative (money-making,… — Alice von Hildebrand Copy Share Image
I believe my religion is the truth, but I am not the truth and the truth doesn't belong to me I'm trying… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
I'm indebted to the teachers who shaped me - from the Sisters of St. Joseph at St. Croix Catholic elementary to the… — Denis McDonough Copy Share Image
The changes in the Catholic Church since Vatican II can certainly be scanned in terms of this long retreat from the sacred… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
Oh, my mama was awesome. Very strict, overreligious, loved the Lord, loved rules. But she had to be that way because of… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
When the problems in Northern Ireland started, it was not a question of Protestantism or Catholicism, because the Catholic church was the… — Harri Holkeri Copy Share Image
I will not live an instant that I do not live in love. Whoever loves does all things without suffering, or, suffering,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a highly spiritual person, but without - I was never really given a religion or a religious… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
We live in a culture in which condoms can be handed out in schools and Bibles can't. And I think that tells… — Janet E. Smith Copy Share Image
The most generous choices, especially the persevering, are the fruit of profound and prolonged union with God in prayerful silence. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
I do need to explore my faith, because it has got lost over the years and it has been kind of tainted… — Johnny Vegas Copy Share Image
I didn't want to raise my daughter in the church because from what I experienced and what I saw, the church becomes… — Leah Remini Copy Share Image
[The Catholic religion] was something I carried with me, never forgot, brought into my music. And it's been in my music ever… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I spent my entire Irish Catholic youth in a constant state of guilt over imaginary sins. I learned that nothing is a… — Terry Wogan Copy Share Image
The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagation of the holy… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
![“The lunatic populism that preceded the Pearl Harbor bombing is astonishing in its permutations, its crisscrossings. Guys like [Catholic priest and controversial radio broadcaster] Father Coughlin and [racist and anti-Semitic agitator and founder of the Christian Nationalist Crusade] Gerald L.K…” quote by James Ellroy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fcc/james-ellroy-2967_anti-semitic_the-lunatic-populism-that-preceded-the-p_1871634.jpg)
![“[ Taken from a BBC documentary ] Tariq was born in Lahore, now in Pakistan, then part of British-ruled India, in 1943. A Catholic school education did nothing to shake his life-long atheism, which he shared with his communist parents.” quote by Tariq Ali](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/153/tariq-ali-2958_atheism_taken-from-a-bbc-documentary-tariq-was-b_1754697.png)
![“[The Catholic religion] was something I carried with me, never forgot, brought into my music. And it's been in my music ever since.” quote by Bruce Springsteen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e23/bruce-springsteen-546_catholic_the-catholic-religion-was-something-i-ca_1536226.jpg)
