Catholic Quotes

1306 Catholic quotes by 675 unique authors

...it is proper that the duty of helping the poor and unfortunate should especially stir Catholics, since they are members of the Mystical Body of… — Pope John XXIII
Is the Church inimical to science? Growing up as a Catholic and a scientist - I don't see it. One truth is revealed truth, the… — Joseph Murray
Well, let's distinguish religion from spirituality. I am Catholic, so religion for me is a way of having discipline and collective worship with persons who… — Paulo Coelho
A cloud of incense was rising on high; the people suddenly all bowed low; what could it mean? The truth flashed on him, fearfully yet… — John Henry Newman
I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so. — Saint Augustine
It [an ethical problem with in vitro fertilization] depends on whether you're talking ethics from the standpoint of some religious denomination or from just truly… — Unknown Author
We once discussed which were the cleanest troops in the trenches, taken by nationalities. We agreed on a descending-order like this: English and German Protestants;… — Robert Graves
Writers write about what obsesses them. You draw those cards. I lost my mother when I was 14. My daughter died at the age of… — Anne Rice
Taking into account these distinctions, in harmony with the Magisterium of my Predecessors[81] and in communion with the Bishops of the Catholic Church, I confirm… — Pope John Paul II
I was a Catholic boy, I went to church every Sunday. A church has a certain magic and mystery for a child. It still shows… — Robert Mapplethorpe
Wicked sons do not have the Holy Ghost in the same way as do beloved sons, and yet they do have Baptism. So, too, heretics… — Saint Augustine
I do not doubt that all those who have received Baptism anywhere and from whomever do have Baptism, as long as it was consecrated with… — Saint Augustine
Baptism does not profit a man outside unity with the Church ... For many heretics also possess this Sacrament but not the fruits of salvation… — Saint Augustine
The Most Holy Roman Church firmly believes, professes and preaches that none of those existing outside the Catholic Church, not only pagans, also Jews, heretics,… — Unknown Author
By heart we believe and by mouth confess the one Church, not of heretics but the Holy Roman, Catholic, and Apostolic Church outside which we… — Pope Innocent III
Some say they are not bound by the doctrine which teaches that the Mystical Body of Christ and the Roman Catholic Church are one and… — Pope Pius XII
Beyond a doubt, they perish eternally who do not keep the Catholic faith entire and unchanged. — Pope Gregory XVI
Thoughtful men, with hearts craving the truth, have come to seek in the Catholic Church the road which leads with surety to eternal life. They… — Pope Leo XIII
He who does not believe according to the tradition of the Catholic Church is an unbeliever. — John of Damascus
Better that only a few Catholics should be left, staunch and sincere in their religion, than that they should, remaining many, desire as it were,… — Peter Canisius
Now a Protestant confronting a Catholic ghost is exactly Shakespeare's way of grappling with what was not simply a general social problem but one lived… — Stephen Greenblatt
I have held and hold souls to be immortal.... Speaking as a Catholic, they do not pass from body to body, but go to paradise,… — Giordano Bruno
The common man or women, whether they are Israeli or Palestinian, Protestant or Catholic or Iraqi or American, the common man just wants to live… — Woody Harrelson
Catholics and Protestants are fighting with one another... while the enemy of Aryan humanity and all Christendom is laughing up his sleeve. — Adolf Hitler
As long as leadership from above was not lacking, the people fulfilled their duty and obligation overwhelmingly. Whether Protestant pastor or Catholic priest, both together… — Adolf Hitler

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