“To understand our faith -- to theologize in the Catholic tradition -- we need philosophy. We must use the philosophical language of… — George Cardinal Pell Copy Share Image
“God has created me to do Him some definite service. He has committed some work to me which He has not committed… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
“Curiously enough, it is a fear of how grace will change and improve them that keeps many souls away from God. They… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“I could not understand why these romancers never took the trouble to find out a few elementary facts about the thing they… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“An ultimately evil job. For we are attempting to conquer Sauron with the Ring. And we shall (it seems) succeed. But the… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“I think that it [the Church] stands for everything most hostile to the mental emancipation and stimulation of mankind. It is the… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
God, you know my heart even better than I do. This could scare me or it could give m peace- the peace… — Wis 1:6-15 Copy Share Image
“{ Wells discussing his experiences with Christianity } I realised as if for the first time, the menace of these queer shaven… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
I didn't have a clue. I grew up Protestant in Connecticut at the Saugatuck Congregational Church. We didn't talk about the devil.… — Linda Blair Copy Share Image
The central problem of our age is not liberalism or modernism, nor the old Roman Catholicism or the new Roman Catholicism, nor… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It did not cross the minds of most Hindus that barring exceptions, they were responsible for Catholicism in India. The outcastes of… — Kiran Nagarkar Copy Share Image
“Over the years, my church gave me passage into a menagerie of exotic words unknown in the South: "introit," "offertory," "liturgy," "movable… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
To me, the Craft is what Christianity was 2,000 years ago. It was a religion that was not corrupted. I personally think… — Silver RavenWolf Copy Share Image
“1883. ...The teaching of the Church has elaborated the principle of subsidiarity, according to which "a community of a higher order should… — Catholic Church Copy Share Image
The Church was founded upon Peter: although elsewhere the same is attributed to all the Apostles, and they all receive the keys… — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
“The Virgin Mary is called the [Greek words] (the "book of the Word of life") by the Greek Church. The book of… — Erasmo Leiva Merikakis Copy Share Image
Such is the grace and power of baptism; not an overwhelming of the world as of old, but a purification of the… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
While both denominations maintain missions in Asia and Africa in order to win new followers for their doctrine- an activity which can… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Due to his own original special nature, the Jew cannot possess a religious institution, if for no other reason because he lacks… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
When I was in my early 20s I converted to Catholicism after a long period of searching. What I think drew me… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
“Russian bolshevism, replacing eastern Christendom by the grim religiosity of Marx, produced a caricature of the evangelical counsels with many a diabolical… — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Copy Share Image
“All love tends to become like that which it loves. God loved man; therefore He became man. For nine months her own… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“The reason Jesus celebrates the Last Supper with the twelve disciples is that together they represent the bride of God -- the… — Brant Pitre Copy Share Image
“In answer to modern requests for signs and wonders, Our Lord might say, 'You repeat Satan's temptation, whenever you admire the wonders… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Quite agreeable, of course, was this state of things to those who thought it in their abundant riches the result of inevitable… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
“In fact, properly speaking, no parish priest has any convictions on politics. At the back of his mind, he regards the state… — Liam O'Flaherty Copy Share Image
“From the outset, Protestantism rejected the critical medieval distinction between the 'sacred' and 'secular' orders. While this position can easily be interpreted… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
“The reason so many people hesitate to go on retreat is that they are afraid of having light shed on their soul… — Marcel Lefebvre Copy Share Image
What you see is the bread and the chalice; that is what your own eyes report to you. But what your faith… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
All appeals to Scripture are appeals to interpretations of Scripture. The only real question is: whose interpretation? People with differing interpretations of… — Keith Mathison Copy Share Image
“By way of parenthesis let me say that this hand on the tomb has a lovely lesson for all those unfortunate members… — M. Raymond Copy Share Image
“Personalism therefore includes among its leading ideas, the affirmation of the unity of mankind, both in space and time, which was foreshadowed… — Emmanuel Mounier Copy Share Image
True piety admits no other rule than that whatsoever things have been faithfully received from our fathers the same are to be… — Vincent of Lerins 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
“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
“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
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
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
I was nurtured in the church; I went to a Catholic school; I was an altar boy; I went to a Catholic… — Bruce Babbitt Copy Share Image
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