Catholic Quote by Dana Gioia

If any mention was made of homicide, madness, adultery, and intolerable tortures, we would let the church-bells ring louder, the church-organ swell its peal…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“They [the Puritans] disallowed of the cathedral mode of worship; of singing their prayers, and of the antiphone or chanting of the Psalms by…

— Daniel Neal

The Puritan did not stop to think; he recognized God in his soul, and acted.

— Wendell Phillips

“For puritans of whatever faith, God is in the detail.”

— Tim Mackintosh-Smith

“it annoys me to see people comfortable when they ought to be uncomfortable; and I insist on making them think in order to bring…

— George Bernard Shaw

“They sounded like intestines, only on the outside, and the men in the Bible were always having them cut off and not being able…

— Jeanette Winterson

That which is destroying the Church is not the outward groping of those within it nor the inward groping of those without, but the…

— William Faulkner

I've always figured that if God wanted us to go to church a lot He'd have given us bigger behinds to sit on and…

— P. J. O'Rourke

“Nosey gossiping church members were sucking out my passion for life leaving me an irritable shell of what I felt called to do on…

— Anna Aquino

Bells call others, but themselves enter not into the Church.

— George Herbert

Familiarity with holy things can often engender blindness, and churches are, for all their merits, institutions that embody, perhaps more than most, the will…

— Andrew Linzey

“Too much of the old Puritan spirit exists in these parts to the present hour; but its influence has not tended, that I know,…

— Charles Dickens