We were looking for a 'good shepherd,' and instead we got a German shepherd. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I wish I was a more religious person. I really admire Martin Sheen for his Catholicism. It's such a bedrock. I wish… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
The difficulty of explaining ‘why I am a Catholic’ is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The desire for God is written in the human heart, because man is created by God and for God; and God never… — The Catholic Church Copy Share Image
The custom of the Church has very great authority and ought to be jealously observed in all things. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
“He clenched his small fist, bellowed his rage to the heavens, and resolved to never again recognize the authority of any man… — Patricia Lockwood Copy Share Image
“His faith demanded his hopefulness, and his hope underpinned his work. He worked to give others the opportunity to hope - that… — Mark K. Shriver Copy Share Image
Any violence which does not spring from a spiritual base, will be wavering and uncertain. It lacks the stability which can only… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Our Pastoral solicitude induces us to earnestly protect and preserve in everything and especially in the sacred rites of the Church the… — Pope Clement VIII Copy Share Image
Yes, hypothetically, western Catholicism could revise the theme of celibacy. ... But for the moment, I am in favor of maintaining celibacy,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I believe that Judaism was an improvement on polytheism; Christianity was an improvement on Judaism (to some degree and in some departments… — Thomas Ferguson Copy Share Image
Back in the '50s and '60s, most politicians were concerned about not talking about faith, partly because there were consequences you had… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I suppose you could sum up the religious aspects of my boyhood by saying it was a time of life when I… — Robert Vaughn Copy Share Image
Not only in America but in Germany, in France since the war, in Germany after the First World War, the Germany of… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
I grew up around a lot of various religions, so it's a part of my consciousness in a way. Everything from heavy… — St. Vincent Copy Share Image
I've begun to recognize myself as a Catholic writer because my whole notion of the image, of symbol, of art and what… — Joyelle McSweeney Copy Share Image
Faithful God, help me to trust in you during times of disappointment and disillusion. I want to believe you are working in… — Anonymous 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
It is true, these Roman Catholics, priests and all, impress me as a people who have fallen far behind the significance of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the world-old, world-wide religio of amulets and holy places and priestcraft. Protestantism,in its corresponding decay, becomes… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“She had no need in her heart for either book or magazine. She had her own way of escape, her own passage… — John Fante Copy Share Image
“I bear within me the seed, the rudiments, the possibility of life's capacities and endeavors. Where might I be, if I were… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“[I]t seemed to me now that a Catholic church was the right companion for all these horrors. Didn't Catholicism deal with blood… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
Persecution has come upon us, right honorable brethren, and persecution in the severest form. Shepherds are persecuted that their flocks may be… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
“For indeed, the Church is divinely constituted and lives by her own right, not by privilege. Who ever would have granted her… — Louis Veuillot Copy Share Image
Irish Catholicism is very much founded on the stone of fear and of punishment. — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
In Catholicism, the pint, the pipe and the Cross can all fit together. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I think that the achievements of Catholicism on race are very, very impressive. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“Poetry is a machine that manufactures love. Its other virtues escape me.” — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
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