One of the very first poems I wrote was Docker That fist would drop a hammer on a Catholic and one of… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
I am still a Catholic. I still believe life begins at conception. That is consistent with my Catholic beliefs. And I believe… — Michael Baumgartner Copy Share Image
“For though we know quite well that God is present in all that we do, our nature is such that it makes… — Teresa of Ávila Copy Share Image
This may sound pernickety but I wouldn't describe myself as an evangelical. These are labels, which I don't think are helpful. If… — Nicky Gumbel Copy Share Image
One of the reasons they didn't go to Bosnia, bin Laden has explained extensively, was because they couldn't establish a base anywhere.… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
Catholic education aims not only to communicate facts but also to transmit a coherent, comprehensive vision of life, in the conviction that… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
People that support Donald Trump are gonna circle the wagons around Trump even more so after this. This isn't gonna cause Catholics… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
If Socialism, like all errors, contains some truth (which, moreover, the Supreme Pontiffs have never denied), it is based nevertheless on a… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
I needed a lot of the good things that church provided. But as I grew older, it became increasingly hard for me… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
“One spiritual writer has observed that human beings are born with two diseases: life, from which we die; and hope, which says… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
I pray a simple prayer every morning. It's an ecumenical prayer. Whether you're Catholic or Jewish or Muslim or Hindu, I think… — Emo Philips Copy Share Image
If anyone in word and mind does not properly and truly confess according to the holy Fathers all even to the last… — Pope Martin I Copy Share Image
By offering an education centered on values, the faculty in Catholic schools can create an interactive setting between parents and students that… — Mark Foley Copy Share Image
I have read that during the process of canonization the Catholic Church demands proof of joy in the candidate, and although I… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
Grace abounds in contemporary movies, books, novels, films and music. If God is not in the whirlwind, He may be in a… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
In a man like Friedrich von Schlegel the courage to be as an individual self produced complete neglect of participation, but it… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
In a world where there is so much noise, so much bewilderment, there is a need for silent adoration of Jesus concealed… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
In all countries, in all centuries, the primary reason for government to set up schools is to undermine the politically weak by… — Marshall Fritz Copy Share Image
I never lost my faith...But like all modern Catholics, I felt for a time that I had outgrown the church. Now it… — Martin Sheen Copy Share Image
The time for letting the Christian bashing go on essentially unchallenged has come to an end... There is a great need for… — D. James Kennedy Copy Share Image
In college, I was like most young men, doing what pleased me and looking out mainly for my own interest. I had… — Luke Scott Copy Share Image
My parents had us in church every Sunday, every Wednesday. It was more of a tradition at that point; I didn't have… — Stephen Curry Copy Share Image
“Without radical humility that is expressed in gestures of adoration and in sacred rituals, no friendship with God is possible. Silence manifests… — Robert Sarah Copy Share Image
Since many of you do not belong to the Catholic Church and others are non-believers, from the bottom of my heart I… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
It is easy to forget, since the Catholic Church is now the only large American religious denomination whose ecclesiastical hierarchy continues to… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
“I have dedicated my life to fight against the heinous rottenness of modern capitalism because it robs the laborer of this world's… — Charles E. Coughlin Copy Share Image
I have held and hold souls to be immortal… Speaking as a Catholic, they do not pass from body to body, but… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
We are not only interested in those aspects of the mystery of the Roman Catholic Church which set her apart from the… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
I remember one time when all the nuns in my Catholic grade school got around in a semicircle, me and Mom in… — Chris Farley Copy Share Image
It's maybe hard to believe, but as a kid I really had a lot of self-doubts. My father was very ill -… — Diane Kruger Copy Share Image
To students: I pray that all those young people who have graduated, do not carry just a piece of paper with them… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
The sacred rites, although not instituted specifically for proving the truth of the dogmas of the Catholic Faith incontrovertibly, are effectively the… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
The facts tell us that no religious Faith releases - or ever has released at any moment in History - a higher… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Better that only a few Catholics should be left, staunch and sincere in their religion, than that they should, remaining many, desire… — Peter Canisius Copy Share Image
I attended Catholic school. We received a great education from the nuns. ... Also, guilt. Guilt and a feeling of never being… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
We're a Muslim family, but we're also very cultured and we have a mixture of different religions. For example, my brother-in-law is… — Rima Fakih Copy Share Image
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