Catholic Quotes
1306 Catholic quotes by 675 unique authors
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For how shall we fill people with blind faith in the correctness of a doctrine, if we ourselves spread uncertainty and doubt by constant changes…
— Adolf Hitler
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In the ranks of the movement [National Socialist movement], the most devout Protestant could sit beside the most devout Catholic, without coming into the slightest…
— Adolf Hitler
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There's nothing sexier than a lapsed Catholic.
— Woody Allen
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I am convinced that some political and social activities and practices of the Catholic organizations are detrimental and even dangerous for the community as a…
— Albert Einstein
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I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother.
— Martin Sheen
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These enemies of divine revelation extol human progress to the skies, and with rash and sacrilegious daring would have it introduced into the Catholic religion…
— Pope Pius IX
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The sacred rites, although not instituted specifically for proving the truth of the dogmas of the Catholic Faith incontrovertibly, are effectively the living voice of…
— Pope Leo XIII
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It is impossible to approve in Catholic publications of a style inspired by unsound novelty which seems to deride the piety of the faithful and…
— Pope Pius X
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Our efforts cannot and should not substitute for just public policies and effective programs to meet the needs of the hungry...Money, food, and time donated…
— John Ricard
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Catholics can in no way convince themselves that so enormous and unjust an in equality in the distribution of this world's goods truly conforms to…
— Pope Pius XI
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I am a Catholic not like someone else would be a Baptist or a Methodist, but like someone else would be an atheist.
— Flannery O'Connor
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If you're a Catholic you believe what the Church teaches and the climate makes no difference.
— Flannery O'Connor
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Judge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest to it.
— Fulton J. Sheen
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During a frustrating argument with a Roman Catholic cardinal, Napoleon Bonaparte supposedly burst out: Your eminence, are you not aware that I have the power…
— Ross Douthat
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And I have found that when we Catholics, in the spirit of love and charity, declare our faith boldly and with conviction, we are more…
— Benedict Groeschel
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We, as Catholics are not permitted to believe anything of our own will, nor to choose what someone has believed of his. We have God's…
— Isidore of Seville
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Such then in number and importance are the precious ties belonging to the Christian name which keep a believer in the Catholic Church, as it…
— Saint Augustine
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And so, lastly, does the very name of "Catholic", which, not without reason, amid so many heresies, the Church has thus retained; so that, though…
— Saint Augustine
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In the Catholic Church, there are many other things which most justly keep me in her bosom. The consent of peoples and nations keeps me…
— Saint Augustine
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The old Catholic church traditions are worth more than all you have said. Here is a principle of logic that most men have no more…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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You ask me whether I am in good spirits. How could I not be so? As long as Faith gives me strength I will always…
— Pier Giorgio Frassati
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My dad said, 'In school, be a Catholic. At home, be a Hindu.' So we did both.
— Deepak Chopra
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But the saints are never the kind of killjoy spinster aunts who go in for faultfinding and lack all sense of humor. (Nor should the…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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I'm pretty much a good Catholic girl at heart and I believe in family. I also have a basic belief that God takes care of…
— Catherine O'Hara
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You know, all mystics - Catholic, Christian, non-Christian, no matter what their theology, no matter what their religion - are unanimous on one thing: that…
— Anthony de Mello
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