The difficulty of explaining ‘why I am a Catholic’ is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
At different points in my life, I had grappled with the idea of going into the priesthood - in high school or… — James McGreevey Copy Share Image
There is no point when all the material benefits of the world add up to a general state of happiness. It is… — Tarek Saab Copy Share Image
The first religious experience that I can remember is getting under the nursery table to pray that the dancing mistress might be… — Gwen Raverat Copy Share Image
Peace is defined as harmony among those who are divided. When, therefore, we end the civil war within our nature and cultivate… — Gregory of Nyssa Copy Share Image
Lord, may I think what you want me to think. May I desire what you want me to desire. May I speak… — Pedro Poveda Castroverde Copy Share Image
The problem with being British... I don't know if it's me being British or being raised a strict Catholic, but you never… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
I had a rough spot about being a goody-goody Mormon, and not drinking or smoking. But I'm kind of grateful I've got… — Donny Osmond Copy Share Image
The Catholic Church spends a lot of time in very poor countries trying to recruit and spread the Gospel. Let me put… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Musically, there's a movement called the flatted fifth that's really evil-sounding. It was outlawed by the Catholic Church during the Middle Ages.… — Kirk Hammett Copy Share Image
What is the pope doing inserting himself - he's the Vicar of Christ. He is the worldwide leader of the Catholic faith.… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“One thing is certain: When the time has come, nothing which is man made will subsist. One day, all human accomplishments will… — Alice von Hildebrand Copy Share Image
I'm not Catholic. I don't believe in God. But at the same time, I'm obsessed by the sacred, by spirituality. The question… — Bruno Dumont Copy Share Image
For how shall we fill people with blind faith in the correctness of a doctrine, if we ourselves spread uncertainty and doubt… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“No soul ever fell away from God without giving up prayer. Prayer is that which establishes contact with Divine Power and opens… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
We never try to convert those who receive (aid) to Christianity but in our work we bear witness to the love of… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
My Methodist upbringing was very formative in my politics. I was born in 1969, and there was all this ecumenical 'we're in… — Joel Burns Copy Share Image
I grew up in a fundamentalist protestant family that stressed that we were a select people and so we were to avoid… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
In the Catholic view of things, abortion is a justice issue, not an issue of sexual morality... it is a civil rights… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
One eminently orthodox Catholic divine laid it down that a confessor may fondle a nun's breasts, provided he does it without evil… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If you think about it, if you've ever been to a Catholic service, it's practically a laser light show. It's very dramatic,… — Win Butler Copy Share Image
I had a Christian upbringing - it was all about sin and guilt. I was very happy just kissing people. I was… — Mira Sorvino Copy Share Image
Avoid the profane novelty of words, St. Paul says (I Timothy 6:20) ... For if novelty is to be avoided, antiquity is… — Vincent of Lerins Copy Share Image
I'm not sure if that answers the question and I have absolutely no problem with any major world religion on Earth. — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
I'm not religious, but I put it that way because I feel so strongly. It's the one thing you do not ever… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
I grew up in a family where, through my teenage years, I was expected to go to church on Sunday. It wasn't… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Grandma's on the front porch with a Bible in her hand, sometimes I hear her singing take me to the promised land. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was baptized Catholic, but I don't - I'm just a Christian. Anybody that has any room to judge any other Christian… — Brady Jandreau Copy Share Image
I was brought up in the modern world of all the luxury and the highlight of show business. I was born into… — Cat Stevens Copy Share Image
I have met many Roman Catholic theologians who will emphasize as much as any good Protestant preacher that everything comes from the… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Before I moved to the city I spent every Saturday sitting in church wishing I could be living on my own, doing… — Daniel Caesar Copy Share Image
It's perfectly fair that you can't be a Roman Catholic priest unless you're a man. It seems right that the reach of… — Trevor Phillips Copy Share Image
Master, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. We have come to believe and are convinced that… — John the Apostle Copy Share Image
“I’m a skeptic of religious systems, not of the faith. Someday I will be happy to discuss the difference with you.” — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
Many who confess their venial sins out of custom and concern for order but without thought of amendment remain burdened with them… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
If my Catholic boyfriend and I ever have a kid, we'll just be honest with it. We'll say that Mommy is one… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
(and Catholics give out forgiveness at about the same rate as politicians give out promises and whores give out) — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Catholic schools prepare every student to meet the challenges of their future by developing their mind, yes, but also their body and… — David Vitter Copy Share Image
No one church has all the answers or the perfect map to the Promised Land, and I prefer to work out my… — Charley Pride Copy Share Image
The Roman Catholic church... carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and… — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
