Catholicism Quotes

334 quotes by 185 authors

If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary. — Margaret Atwood
Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I… — John Adams
Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the… — Charles Baudelaire
We were looking for a 'good shepherd,' and instead we got a German shepherd. — Pope Benedict XVI
If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses. — Lenny Bruce
As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I never… — Julie Burchill
Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment. — Madonna Ciccone
All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly. — Thomas Aquinas
To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them. — Thomas Aquinas
I believe the spreading of Catholicism to be the most horrible means of political and social degradation left in the world. — Charles Dickens
In Catholicism, the pint, the pipe and the Cross can all fit together. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
If we wish to keep peace with our neighbor, we should never remind anyone of his natural defects. — Philip Neri
Donohue: "It is Christianity that [Manson] hates, and it is Catholicism that he hates most of all. This guy is at war with Christ." Manson:… — Marilyn Manson
I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so. — Saint Augustine
Grant that we may be one flock and one shepherd. Do not allow your net to be torn, help us to be servants of unity. — Pope Benedict XVI
We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as definitive and has as its highest value one's own ego and… — Pope Benedict XVI
Don't you long to shout to those youths who are bustling around you: Fools! Leave those worldly things that shackle the heart - and very… — Josemaria Escriva
On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every commandment. Everything else we do is a means to an… — Edith Stein
O Master, make me chaste, but not yet! — Saint Augustine
'Eat my flesh,' Jesus says, 'and drink my blood.' The Lord supplies us with these intimate nutrients, he delivers over his flesh and pours out… — Clement of Alexandria

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