Catholic Church Quotes
157 Catholic Church quotes by 128 unique authors
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If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will be through ignorance…
— Teresa of Avila
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The Roman Catholic Church, had it captured me, as it nearly did, would have sent me on some mission of danger and sacrifice and utilised…
— Annie Besant
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In Italy, the Inquisition was condemning people to death until the end of the eighteenth century, and inquisitional torture was not abolished in the Catholic…
— Carl Sagan
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Please receive in the name of the Spanish government and the people of Spain our warmest congratulations for your election as Supreme Pontiff of the…
— Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
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The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do.
— Oscar Wilde
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The fact that the Catholic Church has come to an agreement with Fascist Italy ... proves beyond doubt that the Fascist world of ideas is…
— Adolf Hitler
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As for the Jews, I am just carrying on with the same policy which the Catholic Church has adopted for fifteen hundred years, when it…
— Adolf Hitler
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We have gone a long way toward civilization and religious tolerance, and we have a good example in this country. Here the many Protestant denominations,…
— Harry S. Truman
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A Christian anarchist has no business belonging to such a reactionary organization [the Catholic Church]. I do not believe in original sin, indulgences, the infallibility…
— Ammon Hennacy
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Always remain close to the Catholic Church, because it alone can give you true peace, since it alone possesses Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, the…
— Pio of Pietrelcina
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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
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I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.
— Saint Augustine
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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He who does not believe according to the tradition of the Catholic Church is an unbeliever.
— John of Damascus
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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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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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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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