I did think of becoming a priest quite late on, when other boys were thinking of knocking over fences and going out… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
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I grew up going to church every Sunday and my mother was a drug and alcohol counselor, so both of my parents'… — Peter Hedges Copy Share Image
The main thing a childhood in the Church did for me, I think, was set up the universe as a moral system.… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Look out sinners because if you do not go to confession, confession will come to you. The Catholic Church in northern England… — Peter Sagal Copy Share Image
Have no anxiety at all, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, make your requests known to God. -Philippians 4:6 — Bible Copy Share Image
Learn from Saint Thérèse to depend on God alone and serve Him with a wholly pure and detached heart. Then, like her,… — Edith Stein Copy Share Image
The idea of universal brotherhood is innate in the catholic nature of Chinese thought; it was the dominant concept of Dr. Sun… — Chiang Kai-shek Copy Share Image
Growing up in New Orleans, my mom and dad were churchgoers. I would go to church with them. Also, I was going… — Avery Johnson Copy Share Image
The common man or women, whether they are Israeli or Palestinian, Protestant or Catholic or Iraqi or American, the common man just… — Woody Harrelson Copy Share Image
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...it is proper that the duty of helping the poor and unfortunate should especially stir Catholics, since they are members of the… — Pope John XXII Copy Share Image
“mother, with her upbringing in the primitive Baptist church, believed that converting to Roman Catholicism was a step upward in the social… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“As Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Prefect of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, has admitted regarding the suppression of the traditional… — Christopher A. Ferrara Copy Share Image
Each of you knows that the foundation of our faith is charity. Without it, our religion would crumble. We will never be… — Pier Giorgio Frassati Copy Share Image
The woman is at the heart of the home. Let us pray that we women realize the reason for our existence: to… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
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I had always been a reader and a skeptic, so when I was old enough to break away from organized religion, it… — Amber Heard Copy Share Image
The only label I would choose for myself is Christian, but if you pushed me and you say, 'What sort of Christian… — Nicky Gumbel Copy Share Image
Never forget that there are only two philosophies to rule your life: the one of the cross, which starts with the fast… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through Him to God… — Bible Copy Share Image
I mean, I went to a Catholic boys' school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite… — Keanu Reeves Copy Share Image
I come from a Catholic Republican military family in Georgia - the antithesis of Sean's hippie-artist-peacenik background. — Kemp Muhl Copy Share Image
“The desire for God is written in the human heart, because man is created by God and for God; and God never… — The Catholic Church Copy Share Image
I was raised by the Christian Brothers, who believe in that, fortunately. They were, to me, the most rebellious arm of the… — Paul Kantner Copy Share Image
My fathers a clergyman, and he was in the mission field for a certain amount of time in British Honduras, which is… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Let me be clear: I am a Methodist. By that, I mean I think John Wesley was a recovery of Catholic Christianity… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
May all Christians be found worthy of either the pure white crown of a holy life or the royal red crown of… — Cyprian Copy Share Image
[Pope] Francis ought to be taken at his word when he says, as he has often done, that he is a son… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
I was raised in a working class family of Baptist faith, and I went to college on a church scholarship where early… — Dick Gephardt Copy Share Image
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I grew up Catholic. The Catholic faith has played an integral role in my life. At the same time, I don't think… — Julian Castro Copy Share Image
I grew up in San Francisco in the 1970s. We were part of a church that belonged to the California Jesus movement. — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
I do disapprove very strongly of labelling children, especially young children, as something like 'Catholic children' or 'Protestant children' or 'Islamic children.' — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
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