Catholic Quotes
1306 Catholic quotes by 675 unique authors
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If there is anyone who's living the work of the New Testament, it's the nuns of the Catholic church and not the Catholic hierarchy.
— Anna Quindlen
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I mean, I went to a Catholic boys' school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me.
— Keanu Reeves
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I went to an all-boys Catholic school, and not only were we not allowed to wear pajamas, we had to wear dress shirts, dress pants,…
— John C. Reilly
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I have friends who are Roman Catholics. I have friends who are Lutherans.
— Pat Robertson
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Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.
— Saint Francis de Sales
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Hey, I'm a Catholic deer hunter, I am happy to be clinging to my guns and my religion.
— Paul Ryan
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The Roman Catholic Church isn't going to change its theologies.
— Robert H. Schuller
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Sometimes I feel like a Buddhist and I need to chant; sometimes a Baptist and I need to holler and shout; and sometimes I need…
— Jill Scott
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I am saying voluntarily that I have sung for almost every religious group in the country, from Jewish and Catholic, and Presbyterian and Holy Rollers…
— Pete Seeger
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Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you…
— Fulton J. Sheen
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Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.
— Fulton J. Sheen
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Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
— Fulton J. Sheen
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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.
— Fulton J. Sheen
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The proud man counts his newspaper clippings, the humble man his blessings.
— Fulton J. Sheen
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Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it.
— Fulton J. Sheen
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It doesn't really matter how much of the rules or the dogma we accepted and lived by if we're not really living by the fundamental…
— Martin Sheen
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One nice thing about growing up Catholic is it makes you open-minded about other people's religions, since ours is nuttier than yours.
— Rob Sheffield
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Being a pop fan is a lot like Catholic devotion - lots of ritual, lots of ceremony... We touch the icon to enter the sacred…
— Rob Sheffield
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It is precisely our job as Catholics to speak the truth as plainly and precisely as we can.
— Sargent Shriver
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I was raised in a Baptist household, went to a Catholic church, lived in a Jewish neighborhood, and had the biggest crush on the Muslim…
— Will Smith
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If you're going to do a thing, you should do it thoroughly. If you're going to be a Christian, you may as well be a…
— Muriel Spark
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If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.
— Charles Spurgeon
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My longing for truth was a single prayer.
— Edith Stein
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Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church; by means of that prayer the Church prays, since it is the Holy Spirit living in…
— Edith Stein
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As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor's soul must break all precept. All that we do is…
— Edith Stein
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