My father was ethnically Jewish, but his family converted to Catholicism. — Tom Hollander Copy Share Image
What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God. — Hans Urs Von Balthasar Copy Share Image
You cannot be half a saint; you must be a whole saint or no saint at all. — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
“The chief sources of sin are seven: Pride, Covetousness, Lust, Anger, Gluttony, Envy, and Sloth; and they are commonly called capital sins.” — Plenary Councils of Baltimore Copy Share Image
“When I am completely united to you, there will be no more sorrow or trials; entirely full of you, my life will… — The Catholic Church Copy Share Image
I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“...we can never attain a maximum love of God with only a minimum knowledge of God” — Frank Sheed Copy Share Image
The saints had no hatred, no bitterness; they forgive everything and think they deserve much more for their offenses against God. — John Vianney Copy Share Image
The only reason that Jews are in pornography is that we think that Christ sucks. Catholicism sucks. — Al Goldstein Copy Share Image
I'm an old Catholic. I don't believe in anything Catholic but I do believe that Catholicism keeps me from committing suicide. — Tom Spanbauer Copy Share Image
Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment. — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Every theistic religion, including Catholicism, Mainline Protestantism, Judaism, Mormonism, and Islam, has traditionally held homosexual congress in moral opprobrium. — Michael J. Knowles Copy Share Image
“It would be unjust toward children to introduce them to Christian teaching and existence only as little pagans and catechumens, in order… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
What is held by the whole Church, and that not as instituted by Councils, but as a matter of invariable custom, is… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“What history can do is show that people have to take responsibility for what they activate out of their tradition. It’s not… — Karen L. King Copy Share Image
There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in… — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
Never forget that there are only two philosophies to rule your life: the one of the cross, which starts with the fast… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
A folkish state must therefore begin by raising marriage from the level of a continuous defilement of the race, and give it… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I was not in agreement with the sharp anti-Semitic tone, but from time to time I read arguments which gave me some… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“On Good Friday last year the SS found some pretext to punish 60 priests with an hour on "the tree." That is… — Jean Bernard Copy Share Image
“Is it not strange that it should be precisely our century—a century of social science and of solidarity if ever there was… — Antonin Sertillanges Copy Share Image
Now the ordinary Protestant, Jew or Secularist has a stereotype about Catholicism. It consists of Spanish Catholicism, Latin-American Catholicism and, let us… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Our efforts cannot and should not substitute for just public policies and effective programs to meet the needs of the hungry...Money, food,… — John Ricard Copy Share Image
“Conversion can also occur among those who already have the faith. Christians will become real Christians, with less façade and more foundation.… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“The Pope would have an easier job than the President of the United States in adopting a change of course. He has… — Hans Küng Copy Share Image
Even as he would be guilty of falsehood who would, in the name of another person, proffer things that are not committed… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The only future is intentional Catholicism, evangelical Catholicism. — George Weigel Copy Share Image
I think I would like to be a monk. I really considered Catholicism a few years ago, but there were some things… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
I just became fascinated with how complex and unlikely the universe is and life is and Catholicism gives me an answer to… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
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