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• If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female… — Margaret Atwood
• Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch… — John Adams
• Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity,… — 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… — Lenny Bruce
• As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great… — 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… — 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

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