“Withdraw yourself from people and spend at least an quarter of an hour, or a half-hour, in some church in the presence… — Alphonsus Maria de Liguori Copy Share Image
The best advice that I can give you is this. Church-traditions — especially when they do not run counter to the faith… — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
“Churchmen sought to introduce rational trial procedures and sophisticated legal principles in place of the superstition-based trial by ordeal that had characterized… — Thomas E. Woods Jr Copy Share Image
For the political leader the religious doctrines and institutions of his people must always remain inviolable; or else has no right to… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Germany is different from France. You are more Protestant, which results in a significant difference. Through the church, through Catholicism, French society… — Emmanuel Macron Copy Share Image
I am catholic. And I don't like to see catholicism being brought into disrepute by those in charge who don't seem to… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to… — Ralph Fiennes Copy Share Image
Be obedient to the bishop and to one another, as Jesus Christ was in the flesh to the Father, and the apostles… — Ignatius of Antioch Copy Share Image
The more abstractly correct and hence powerful this idea will be, the more impossible remains its complete fulfillment as long as it… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
For how shall we fill people with blind faith in the correctness of a doctrine, if we ourselves spread uncertainty and doubt… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“No soul ever fell away from God without giving up prayer. Prayer is that which establishes contact with Divine Power and opens… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“Thou didst not come down from the cross when they shouted to Thee, mocking and reviling Thee, "Come down from the cross… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“As Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Prefect of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, has admitted regarding the suppression of the traditional… — Christopher A. Ferrara Copy Share Image
“Two classes of people make up the world: those who have found God, and those who are looking for Him - thirsting,… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“Art according to art! Love according to love! This is taking the salt away from Heaven. Do you think Our Savior tries… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
“I never came into the church as a person who was being taught. I came in on my knees. That is the… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
I had a born-again experience at the age of 33. As a result of that I found a church where I felt… — Bill McCartney Copy Share Image
[Pope] Francis communicates the pastoral embrace of the Church, the breadth and inclusiveness of Catholicism symbolized by the Bernini colonnade around St.… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
Catholicism has made man stupid, but it has not degraded him; it has introduced as many good and beautiful things as bad… — Henry de Montherlant Copy Share Image
All in all, this whole period of winter 1919-20 was a single struggle to strengthen confidence in the victorious might of the… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
We're used to institutional-maintenance Catholicism, in which the institution ticks along by its own inertia and people are "born" into the Church.… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
“It seems to me that although they have a respectable sales pitch, this business of a priest having the power to let… — Karl Wiggins Copy Share Image
In Catholicism, we would say you're going to be judged, so therefore you should do better now. For me, Buddhism is somewhat… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The customs of God's people and the institutions of our ancestors are to be considered as laws. And those who throw contempt… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I accept with sincere belief the doctrine of faith as handed down to us from the Apostles by the orthodox Fathers, always… — Pope Pius X Copy Share Image
And the angel said unto me: Behold the formation of a church which is most abominable above all other churches, which slayeth… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
We must not seek the child Jesus in the pretty figures of our Christmas cribs. We must seek him among the undernourished… — Oscar Romero Copy Share Image
Catholicism is not a lifeless set of rules and regulations. Catholicism is a lifestyle. Catholicism is a way of life designed by… — Matthew Kelly Copy Share Image
The mere change of custom, even though it may be of advantage in some respects, unsettles men by reason of the novelty:… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I was raised in a Catholic household and went to a Catholic school, and my childhood brain perceived medieval Catholicism as an… — Grimes Copy Share Image
When the church hears the cry of the oppressed it cannot but denounce the social structures that give rise to and perpetuate… — Oscar Romero Copy Share Image
“The spiritual director should not reduce his attention to the internal life because of external occupations, nor should he relinquish his care… — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image
What does the poor man do at the rich man's door, the sick man in the presence of his physician, the thirsty… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
I shall spend every moment loving. One who loves does not notice her trials; or perhaps more accurately, she is able to… — Bernadette Soubirous 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
Damien Hirst is the Elvis of the English art world, its ayatollah, deliverer, and big-thinking entrepreneurial potty-mouthed prophet and front man. Hirst… — Jerry Saltz 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
There is a common belief that under modern conditions peace cannot be assured except on the basis of an equal balance of… — Pope John XXIII Copy Share Image
“Catholicism ... tries to grab all the poker chips on the table, kick everybody out of the game, and then pretend they… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
It is the bourgeoisie which has turned religion into an opium of the people by preaching a God, lord of the heavens… — Frei Betto Copy Share Image
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