In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
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I was raised in the Baptist church... but I didn't really have a real committed experience with Christ until my father died. — T. D. Jakes Copy Share Image
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Lord give me this seeing faith, then my work will never be monotonous. I will find joy in humoring the fancies and… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
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I was an altar boy, I took catechism classes and religion classes, and I prayed a lot as a child. My family… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
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The Catholic Church sees voluntary vampirism as a kind of suicide. I tend to agree. Though the Pope also excommunicated all animators,… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
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I was never close to Jerry Falwell because he had his ministry, I had mine. And we came from different theological training… — Robert H. Schuller Copy Share Image
One footnote says that divorced and remarried faithful, who are not recognized by the Catholic Church because it upholds the indissolubility of… — Sylvia Poggioli Copy Share Image
The death of Pope John Paul II led many of different faiths and of no faith to acknowledge their debt to the… — Suzanne Fields Copy Share Image
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Once she has committed sin, there is nothing left for the Protestant woman, whereas the Catholic Church, hope of forgiveness makes a… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
In 1953 there were two ways for an Irish Catholic boy to impress his parents: become a priest or attend Notre Dame. — Phil Donahue Copy Share Image
[Mary] is the safest, easiest, shortest and most perfect way of approaching Jesus and will surrender themselves to her, body and soul,… — Louis de Montfort Copy Share Image
I was in church a little bit as a very young kid, but, as they say in the South, 'it didnt take.'… — Randy Travis Copy Share Image
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