It was easy to know the doctrine. It's much harder to help a billion people live it. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Christianity even when watered down is hot enough to boil all modern society to rags. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith. — Samantha Morton Copy Share Image
Catholicism is a matter of the body and the senses as much as it is a matter of the mind, precisely because… — Robert Barron Copy Share Image
“Father Roger Boscovich is often credited as the father of modern atomic theory.” — Thomas E. Woods Jr Copy Share Image
We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials. — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
“It was Francisco de Vitoria, a Catholic priest and professor, who earned the title of father of international law.” — Thomas E. Woods Jr Copy Share Image
Maybe some of my quest for success comes from Joan of Arc but theres no conscious part of Catholicism in my life. — Joan Van Ark Copy Share Image
“There is no need for particular speech in order to be with God. We have only to be quiet and to contemplate… — Robert Cardinal Sarah Copy Share Image
On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every commandment. Everything else we do is a… — Edith Stein Copy Share Image
Only in the steady and constant application of force lies the very first prerequisite for success. This persistence, however, can always and… — Adolf Hitler 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
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
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
One philosophically fascinating aspect of Catholicism is the very strange conception of reality it presents (the incarnation, the eucharist, judgement day etc.). — Tim Crane 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
“On the conversion of the European tribes to Christianity the ancient pagan worship was by no means incontinently abandoned. So wholesale had… — Lewis Spence Copy Share Image
One faith, St. Paul writes (Eph. 4:5). Hold most firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this,… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
As to those other things which we hold on the authority, not of Scripture, but of tradition, and which are observed throughout… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“If the Pentateuch be true, religious persecution is a duty. The dungeons of the Inquisition were temples, and the clank of every… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“All love on this earth involves choice. When, for example, a young man expresses his love to a young woman and asks… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“The rising influence of lay piety is particularly marked upon the Mariological controversies of the late medieval period. Two rival positions developed:… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
Our responsibility as Christians makes us tremble. The northern hemisphere, the developed area of the world, the 20% who possess 80% of… — Hélder Câmara Copy Share Image
“If a well-known and trustworthy person were to go to a public square and tell all the idlers loitering there that on… — St. John Bosco Copy Share Image
Grant that we may be one flock and one shepherd. Do not allow your net to be torn, help us to be… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
That we may give our body and our blood over to suffering and pain, like Christ - not for Self, but to… — Oscar Romero Copy Share Image
“... You can't be with God and be neutral. / True contemplation is resistance. And poetry, / gazing at clouds is resistance… — Ernesto Cardenal Copy Share Image
“The university system, a gift of Western civilization to the world, was developed by the Catholic Church.” — Thomas E. Woods Jr Copy Share Image
I am bound, as a pastor, by divine command to give my life for those whom I love, and that is all… — Oscar Romero Copy Share Image
Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution. Each of us is the result of a thought of God. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“The first person to measure the rate of acceleration of a free falling body was Father Giambattista Riccioli.” — Thomas E. Woods Jr Copy Share Image
God of love, please deliver us from being both victims of violence and agents of violence. Amen. — Judges Chp 4 Copy Share Image
“Only God knows the good that can come about by reading one good Catholic book.” — St. John Bosco” — St. John Bosco Copy Share Image
As a pastor, I am bound by a divine command to give my life for those whom I love, and that includes… — Oscar Romero Copy Share Image
“The idea of formulated 'rights ... comes not from John Locke and Thomas Jefferson ... but from the canon law of the Catholic Church. ” — Thomas E. Woods Jr Copy Share Image
Catholicism has changed tremendously in recent years. Now when Communion is served there is also a salad bar. — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Well, I think that Catholicism's basic foundation of faith is personal conscience. I think it's between you and God, not you and… — Martin Sheen Copy Share Image
In the sacraments, spirit and matter "kiss." Heaven and earth embrace in a union that will never end. — Christopher West Copy Share Image
“At St. Bernardine’s the nuns never liked me. Especially Sister Mary Bitch-and-a-Half. I think that was her biblical name.” — Kathy Griffin Copy Share Image
