I wasn't really a dark kid, but I was in my head a lot. I got good grades all through my 16… — Karen Abbott Copy Share Image
I was raised as a Catholic and received the body and blood of Jesus Christ every Sunday at communion until I was… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
There are many examples of this mistaken idea of freedom, such as the elimination of human life by legalized or generally accepted… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The Catholic Church is still very angry about The Da Vinci Code - they don't like anything that makes more money in… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
I decided to give up the idea of being a priest before I decided I wanted to be an actor. I considered… — James McAvoy Copy Share Image
My family was pious and Presbyterian mainly because my grandfather was pious and Presbyterian, but that was more of an inherited intuition… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The happiness you have a right to enjoy has a name and a face: it is Jesus of Nazareth, hidden in the… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I was raised Catholic. I rejected it later on. I'm an outspoken atheist now. People say, 'Oh, it's a negative thing to… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
We need to realize that a society in which contraceptives are widely used is going to have a very difficult time keeping… — Janet E. Smith Copy Share Image
The declared enemies of God and His Church, heretics and schismatics, must be criticized as much as possible, as long as truth… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
When I was nineteen, pureness was the great issue. Instead of the world being divided up into Catholics and Protestants or Republicans… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“Satan is too hard a master. He would never command as did the Other with divine simplicity: 'Do likewise.' The devil will… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
I was raised a Catholic, but with very liberal parents, so I had to find my spirituality. I've been looking for it… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Private boarding schools and Catholic schools on the East Coast are something. Choate really ruined my father's life. He's had nightmares about… — Laura Dern Copy Share Image
The Roman Catholic Church and its rituals were so much part of life that, although my parents would often question a small… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
Our Dad and Mum sent us to all-girl Catholic schools and the boys went to all-boy Catholic schools. Our parents were what… — Cedella Marley Copy Share Image
I'm afraid I haven't become a born-again Christian. I'm sort of 'Church of England, lapsed' is about as far as I go. — David Gilmour Copy Share Image
Take care to guard against all greed, for though one may be rich, one's life does not consist of possessions. -Luke 12:15 — Bible Copy Share Image
You will never enjoy the sweetness of a quiet prayer unless you shut your mind to all worldly desires and temporal affairs. — Norbert of Xanten Copy Share Image
My grandfather was a Pentecostal preacher. It was a sin to even pluck your eyebrows, and they thought it was a sin… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
In Christ and through Christ man has acquired full awareness of his dignity, of the heights to which he is raised, of… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
I'm free of an abusive cult, based on money and power that worships a fictional deity and safely back with the Catholic… — Katie Holmes Copy Share Image
Well, let's distinguish religion from spirituality. I am Catholic, so religion for me is a way of having discipline and collective worship… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I would not have stayed at a university if it told me upfront that a condition for me getting tenure. my views… — Norman Finkelstein Copy Share Image
In fine, a life of good or evil, the hope of Heaven or the despair of Hell, Faustus stands as a reminder… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think the benefit of a Catholic childhood is your belief in visual symbols as transmitters of information and clues about life,… — Robert Gober Copy Share Image
He loves, He hopes, He waits. Our Lord prefers to wait Himself for the sinner for years rather than keep us waiting… — Maria Goretti Copy Share Image
My daddy was a minister, my grandfather was a voodoo priest, my uncle was a mason; I was raised with a lot… — Wyclef Jean Copy Share Image
I have an enormous family because I'm from Montreal and my family's Catholic, so my dad has eight siblings and they all… — Jessica Pare Copy Share Image
I won the parental lottery. Most of the kids I grew up with either came from really fractured homes, or really violent… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
For me, being Catholic was who I was and who I am, just like I'm Irish and Slovak. It's just so ingrained… — Regina Brett Copy Share Image
“Despite the countless acts of violence that the two had witnessed, and even participated in, over the years, they were still shocked… — Stephen A. Reger Copy Share Image
A Catholic priest, a Jewish rabbi, and a Muslim mullah all walk into a bar, and the bartender says: - What is… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It is the strength of our culture that we can have Sonia Gandhi, who is Catholic, a Sikh prime minister, and a… — Azim Premji Copy Share Image
I'm from Columbia, S.C., and my family is very religious. We'd go to church and Sunday school and we always had to… — Jermaine O'Neal Copy Share Image
I was raised Catholic and I have a lot of respect for the good in the Catholic Church. But I don't go… — Dolores O'Riordan Copy Share Image
My mother was Catholic, my father was Protestant. There was always a debate going on at home - I think in those… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel like a Buddhist and I need to chant; sometimes a Baptist and I need to holler and shout; and… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
I was baptized alongside my mother when I was 8 years old. Since then, I have tried to walk a Christian life.… — Andy Griffith Copy Share Image
O Lord, if I could fly to my people and tell them of your goodness at the top of my voice, oh… — Josephine Bakhita Copy Share Image
