As a mother in the 1950s, she did not impose the same strict religious routine on myself and my brother, Mark, though… — Carol Thatcher Copy Share Image
My confidence is placed in God who does not need our help for accomplishing his designs. Our single endeavor should be to… — Isaac Jogues Copy Share Image
As a kid spending weekends in the Ozarks, I remember my granny's preacher shaking his fist, his jowls waving in the wind… — Dana Loesch Copy Share Image
When I was in Kansas City and having a tough time in my career, I decided to go to seminary to continue… — Nick Foles Copy Share Image
It was generally believed that Catholics were not interested in arts and science graduate schools. They weren't going to be intellectuals. And… — Andrew Greeley Copy Share Image
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Auschwitz cries out with the pain of immense suffering and pleads for a future of respect, peace and encounter among peoples. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
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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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
What stood me in good stead was my upbringing. I had a musician father, a very religious mother who totally supported us.… — Suzi Quatro Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If I were to meet the slave-traders who kidnapped me and even those who tortured me, I would kneel and kiss their… — Josephine Bakhita Copy Share Image
I believe in the Church of Baseball. I've tried all the major religions and most of the minor ones. I've worshipped Buddha,… — Ron Shelton Copy Share Image
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Let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Man's life comes from God: it is his image and imprint, as sharing in his breath of life. God therefore is the… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
I was very serious about being a priest, twice in my life. Almost joined the Montfort Seminary after I graduated from high… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
I don't think of spiritual principle as a struggle. I think of life lived without spiritual principles as a struggle. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
BC is not going to replace the hierarchy, and BC is not going to lead some major reform in the Catholic Church… — William P. Leahy Copy Share Image
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It is admitted by everybody that rights and privileges enjoyed by the Roman Catholic minority in Manitoba down to 1890, were taken… — Charles Tupper Copy Share Image
The catholic church has a lot more money than any Colombian cartel and they leave a lot more bodies in their wake. — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
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My friends asked me to be a reverend at their wedding in France a few years ago. I went on the Internet,… — Lucy Punch Copy Share Image
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We live in the Bible Belt. I was born and raised in church. That's something that was really, really important to me,… — Jay DeMarcus Copy Share Image
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What's really great about Buddhism is its rational, informal quality. Coming from my experience of growing up a Catholic, I found Buddhism… — Matt Dillon Copy Share Image
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Primarily I am a passionately religious man, and my novels must be written from the depth of my religious experience. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
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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
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
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
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
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
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![“One of the very first poems I wrote was Docker That fist would drop a hammer on a Catholic and one of the sturdiest was Requiem for the Croppies, written 50 years after 1916 [the year of the Easter Rising]. Being responsible and what it means, what it demands, have indeed preoccupied me maybe too…” quote by Seamus Heaney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5fb/seamus-heaney-1711_being-responsible_one-of-the-very-first-poems-i-wrote-was_181491.jpg)
