In regard to religion, mutual toleration in the different professions thereof is what all good and candid minds in all ages have… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
I think Catholicism took root very quickly in Ireland because it's a very superstitious religion, the holy ghost, the holy spirit, it… — Conor McPherson Copy Share Image
If we truly think of Christ as our source of holiness, we shall refrain from anything wicked or impure in thought or… — Gregory of Nyssa Copy Share Image
The idea of authority, and therefore the respect for authority, is an anti-Semitic notion. It is in Catholicism, in Christianity, in the… — Kadmi Cohen Copy Share Image
This law of monogamy, or the monogamic system, laid the foundation for prostitution and the evils and diseases of the most revolting… — Orson Pratt Copy Share Image
Catholicism is a wide tent in terms of political and legal positions. We could have nine Catholics on the Supreme Court and… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
For me, men are not divided into believers and atheists, but between oppressors and oppressed, between those who want to keep this… — Frei Betto Copy Share Image
As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly,… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
“[On married love] This love is above all fully human, a compound of sense and spirit. It is not, then, merely a… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
“Deep sorrow does not come because one has violated a law, but only if one knows he has broken off the relationship… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister. We can be proud of… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“To Lucy Snowe, 'Romanism' is 'a great mixed image of gold and clay', and the latter quality is particularly evident in the… — Marianne Thormählen Copy Share Image
“If you cannot see that divinity includes male and female characteristics and at the same time transcends them, you have bad consequences.… — Hans Küng Copy Share Image
When I was 11 years old and I was on a road trip with my family. I turned to my dad and… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
“There is but one way in which the unity of Christians may be fostered, and that is by furthering the return to… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
It is impossible to approve in Catholic publications of a style inspired by unsound novelty which seems to deride the piety of… — Pope Pius X Copy Share Image
There is one God and one Christ, and one Church, and one chair founded on Peter by the word of the Lord.… — Cyprian Copy Share Image
Both Mum and Dad were converts to Catholicism, and normally if you convert to Catholicism you have thought about it more than… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
“For the rest, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever modest, whatsoever just, whatsoever holy, whatsoever lovely, whatsoever of good fame, if there… — St. Paul Copy Share Image
It's just silly to look at the incredibly steep decline in the mainline and the clear institutional weakening of Catholicism in the… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
I'm a closet Catholic. I love the iconography of the saints. There was a point in my life when I was going… — Lynda Resnick Copy Share Image
That's what I mean about Catholicism - your sexual life is supposed to be dead if you're a good Catholic. That's wrong.… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the religion of amulets and holy places and priestcraft: Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, becomes a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My first memories of religion were being taken to Episcopal church. My father was Catholic, but my mother, I believe, was Episcopal.… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
But if out of smugness, or even cowardice, this battle is not fought to its end, then take a look at the… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
When people have no interest in a subject, it's very hard to get them to laugh about it. If I had to… — George Meyer Copy Share Image
Whether, therefore, we receive what we ask for, or do not receive it, let us still continue steadfast in prayer. For to… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
“Books are the food of the soul. Good and wholesome food given to a hungry body will nourish it, but if the… — Anthony Mary Claret Copy Share Image
Donohue: "It is Christianity that [Manson] hates, and it is Catholicism that he hates most of all. This guy is at war… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
The greatness of Christianity did not lie in attempted negotiations for compromise with any similar philosophical opinions in the ancient world, but… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The kernel is the belief that God is love and, in Catholicism, God's love is present in the world. It is in… — Andrew Greeley Copy Share Image
Some have said that the clash between Catholicism and Protestantism illustrates the old maxim that religious freedom is the product of two… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
I don't go to church any more, but I think that Catholicism is rather like the brand they use on cattle: I… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
We are the ones who work every day with people who are suffering because they don't have health care. We cannot turn… — Simone Campbell Copy Share Image
It is a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. Now this dogma… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
I don't try to define the cosmos, I know it's unknowable, but I can understand my place in the world and my… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
I was born and raised in the University of Chicago area and had an uneventful middle-class Catholic childhood. I had a heavy… — Chaka Khan Copy Share Image
“It is very useful for those who minister the word of God, or give themselves up to prayer, to read the works… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You don't need to be Catholic to be Catholic anymore. If you dissent, you don't get out. Martin Luther looks like a… — James P McFadden Copy Share Image
“Necessity demands that one should carefully examine who it is that comes to the position of spiritual authority; and coming solemnly to… — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image