Catholicism Quotes
334 Catholicism quotes by 168 unique authors
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I was born and raised in the University of Chicago area and had an uneventful middle-class Catholic childhood. I had a heavy Catholic upbringing and…
— Chaka Khan
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If, hypothetically, Western Catholicism were to review the issue of celibacy, I think it would do so for cultural reasons, not so much as a…
— Pope Francis
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A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.
— Thomas Fuller
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I don't go to church any more, but I think that Catholicism is rather like the brand they use on cattle: I feel so formed…
— Rachel Cusk
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If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.
— Brian Eno
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Jesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?
— Jules Feiffer
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The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach…
— Joseph Joubert
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Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless…
— Martin Luther
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My first memories of religion were being taken to Episcopal church. My father was Catholic, but my mother, I believe, was Episcopal. So I sort…
— Marilyn Manson
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I can't bear Catholicism.
— George Michael
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Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was…
— Camille Paglia
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Damien Hirst is the Elvis of the English art world, its ayatollah, deliverer, and big-thinking entrepreneurial potty-mouthed prophet and front man. Hirst synthesizes punk, Pop…
— Jerry Saltz
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Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
— Fulton J. Sheen
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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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Wherever politics tries to be redemptive, it is promising too much. Where it wishes to do the work of God, it becomes not divine, but…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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It is theologically and anthropologically important for woman to be at the center of Christianity. Through Mary, and the other holy women, the feminine element…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.
— C.S. Lewis
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There’s Socialism and Communism and Capitalism and there’s Feminism and Hedonism, and there’s Catholicism and Bipedalism and Consumerism, but I think Narcissism is the system…
— Tony Hoagland
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I"m often accused of being irreligious, and I suppose it's for this very reason. Whether it's Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Catholicism, Hinduism, Judaism, or any other…
— Erwin McManus
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It is a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. Now this dogma would make it…
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Never forget that there are only two philosophies to rule your life: the one of the cross, which starts with the fast and ends with…
— Fulton J. Sheen
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We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution. Each of us is the result of a thought of God.
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Nick spoke again. "Her legitimacy will be questioned." Gabriel thought for several moments. "If our mother married her father, it means that the marchioness must…
— Sarah MacLean
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The beauty of Catholicism is every human being's right.
— Matthew Kelly
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Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. It has fed our thirst for facts but…
— Peter Kreeft
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